How To Be HumanIllus. 3.1: The Parthenon has made the wonder of technology manifest for
2500 years.
the coming together of all things, the other is nurtured and
fl ies apart as they grow apart again. And these things never
cease their continual exchange, now through Friendship all
coming together into one, now again each carried apart by
the hatred of Strife.It came quite naturally for him to slip from the realm of scien-
tifi c theory into the realm of spiritual speculation. But then, in
the following generation, a different question arose, and we’ll
turn to it now. It was, in fact, raised by Socrates at a defi ning
moment in his life. What he wanted to know was not whether
science could fi ll the God-shaped hole: he knew it could not
because God-talk is always, ultimately beyond us. Inspiration,
perhaps; certainty, no. But maybe there is something else,