'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.



Sunday, January 24, 2010

on certainty 251


251. Doesn’t this mean: I shall proceed according to this belief unconditionally, and not let anything confuse me?



can you proceed unconditionally?

not in the real world –

the world of contingency –

the world of uncertainty

we should not be afraid of confusion –

it’s an indicator of philosophic health –

at the heart of any confusion –

is a question –

is a doubt –

an uncertainty


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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