Don Robertson

Artist-philosopher who paints because philosophy is often too difficult, Don Robertson is heading into his sixth decade still ready to slay any dragon. His humorous, insightful and inciting philosophy is dissing and scandalizing the academic world, and, denuding the empirical warlords of the political and financial worlds at the same time. The Dictatorship of the Marketplace of laissez faire destruction of the planet, and the Utilitarian, the best for the most selfish, old-school philosophy are his foes.

Robertson discovered life's moral imperative, To live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

About the moral imperative, Robertson says, "It is irrefutable, like the cogito. It's not the moral tripe of the past. We are finally meeting with civilization square on, and it is beautiful. Life is good. After all, who has the right to close the door to all who might follow us into this world? Even to trash the place before they arrive is immoral."

"Art is easy," says Robertson. "If I had to, I would pay people so I could paint. Fortunately, I don't have to. The price for any one of my paintings only goes up, otherwise I keep them because I like them. They're like fond memories I don't part with easily. They're like life's real currency, that with which you pay the future for your escapades today, as long as those escapades last."

Robertson, who was raised and educated a scientist, says quite succinctly, "Science is not truth. Art and philosophy are truth. Science is only the approximation that makes the Rube Goldberg joke work so well." "The is far more than empirical knowledge. For as empirical knowledge was once to superstition, so too now, is Categorical Knowledge to empirical knowledge."

To read more about Robertson's philosophy and see his artwork in action, visit his online work in human philosophy at:

Philosophic works by Don Robertson

An Illustrated Philosophy Primer for Young Readers

A Brief Schematic of Morality, Prioritizing Moral Reason

The New Epistemology of Morality and Truth

Contact information:

Don Robertson
34 Main Street Unit 103
Limestone, Maine 04750
donaldwrobertson@yahoo.com
207-325-4205