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[[Image:Tychobrahe1111.jpg|right|thumb|[[līhtan]]]]

[[Image:Tychobrahe1111.jpg|right|thumb|[[līhtan]]]]

The '''Nordan Symposia''' is inspired by the capacity demonstrated by persons of every [[time]] and place when they welcome the unique [[wonder]] leading them to inquire more deeply into the nature of what it means to be [[human]]. While such questions, along with their ensuing [[dialogues]], may become enshrined in the celebrated literature of any civilization hopefully acting as inspiration to further inquiry, too often these can be found serving as '[[authoritative]]' answers more than eloquent queries, closing doors to what remains nonetheless an [[open-ended]] process of discovery unfolding before us all.

The '''Nordan Symposia''' is inspired by the capacity demonstrated by persons of every [[time]] and place when they welcome the unique [[wonder]] leading them to inquire more deeply into the nature of what it means to be [[human]]. While such questions, along with their ensuing [[dialogues]], may become enshrined in the celebrated literature of any civilization, hopefully acting as inspiration to further inquiry, too often these can be found serving as '[[authoritative]]' answers more than eloquent queries, closing the doors to what remains an [[open-ended]] process of discovery unfolding before us all.

To mitigate the inevitable tendency implicit in cultural formation, the [[Nordan]] Symposia eschews presumptions upon authority even as its participants seek to identify, incorporate, and integrate the most helpful resources freely available throughout this world that is becoming a real [[cosmopolis]]. Through the means of this [[Open Source]] platform, it is hoped that the common threads of inquiry woven into every field of human endeavor might become more vivid and seen as they are in truth, related in the most meaningful way to the primary question of who are we that might justify the use of our name - ''homo sapiens'' or ''wise man''?   

To mitigate the inevitable tendency implicit in cultural formation, the [[Nordan]] Symposia eschews presumptions upon authority even as its participants seek to identify, incorporate, and integrate the most helpful resources freely available throughout this world that is becoming a real [[cosmopolis]]. Through the means of this [[Open Source]] platform, it is hoped that the common threads of inquiry woven into every field of human endeavor might become more vivid and seen as they are in truth, related in the most meaningful way to the primary question of who are we that might justify the use of our name - ''homo sapiens'' or ''wise man''?