'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.




Tuesday, June 15, 2010

on certainty 512


12.4
512. Isn’t the question this: “What if you had to change your opinion even on these most fundamental things?” And to that the answer seems to be: “You don’t have to change it. That is just what their being ‘fundamental’ is.”



if ‘fundamental’ is to mean –

beyond question –

beyond doubt

then what you are dealing with –

is not opinion

but rather prejudice –

and stupidity


© greg t. charlton. 2010.