'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 359


359.  But that means I want to conceive it as something that lies beyond being justified or unjustified; as it were, as something animal.



a conception – that is not to be evaluated –

is a prejudice

calling it ‘animal’ –

is a misconception –

animals –

are not prejudiced


© greg t. charlton. 2010.