'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.




Monday, October 19, 2009

on certainty 132


132. Men have judged that a king can make rain; we say this contradicts all experience. Today they judge that aeroplanes and radio and radio etc, are the means for closer contact of peoples and cultures.



what you have here is different judgments –

and that is all we ever have –

at any time –

different interpretations of a reality –

that in the absence of interpretation is –

unknown


© greg t. charlton. 2009.