'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.



Saturday, March 13, 2010

on certainty 336


336. But what men consider reasonable or unreasonable alters. At certain periods men find reasonable what at other periods they found unreasonable. And visa versa.

But is there no objective character here?

Very intelligent and well-educated people believe in the story of creation in the Bible, while others hold it proven false, and the grounds of the latter are well known to the former.



all we have is opinion

the claim of objectivity –

is a claim for authority

which is to say –

the claim of objectivity –

is rhetorical


© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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