'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.




Wednesday, June 17, 2009

on certainty 31


31. The propositions which one comes back to again and again as if bewitched – these I should like to expunge from philosophical language.



all propositions are a response to the unknown –

it is not propositions per se that we come back to time and again –

but the object of these propositions –

the unknown –

and it cannot be anything but –

bewitching


© greg t. charlton. 2010.