'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 20, 2010

on certainty 358


358.  Now I would like to regard this certainty, not as something akin to hastiness or superficiality, but as a form of life. (That is very badly expressed and probably thought as well)



the argument for certainty –

is essentially the attempt to close down thinking –

to put an end to critical activity

it is to argue for a form of life –

that is deceptive and delusional

such an argument is  –

stupid and immoral


© greg t.charlton. 2010.
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