Stephen Batty
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"...becoming part of my referential and reverential life, along with Michel de Montaigne... life as i know it..." — Nov 22, 2023 03:27AM
"...becoming part of my referential and reverential life, along with Michel de Montaigne... life as i know it..." — Nov 22, 2023 03:27AM
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"becoming part of my referential and reverential life, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, pretty much covers the world as i have seen and seen it...." — Nov 22, 2023 03:26AM
"becoming part of my referential and reverential life, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, pretty much covers the world as i have seen and seen it...." — Nov 22, 2023 03:26AM
shift of metaphors from the world as a machine to the world as a network.
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“Philosophers have always loved mathematics. It’s not hard to see why: one of the things philosophers are most interested in is knowledge. We just saw one of the earliest Greek philosophers, Xenophanes, making a contrast between really having knowledge of the truth and having mere beliefs. And if you’re looking for a nice, solid example of knowledge, mathematics is just about the best example there is. You don’t merely believe that 2 + 2 = 4, you actually know it. Or at least, this is what most people think: that mathematics is a kind of gold standard against which other supposed examples of knowledge can be measured.”
― Classical Philosophy
― Classical Philosophy
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“Truth as a living power that takes possession of the internal being of a human and actually rescues him from false self-assertion is termed Love. Love as the actual abrogation of egoism is the real justification and salvation of individuality. Love is greater than rational consciousness, yet without the latter it could not act as an internal saving power, elevating and not abrogating individuality. Only thanks to a rational consciousness (or, what is the same thing, a consciousness of the truth) can a human being discriminate his very self, i.e., his true individuality, from his egoism, and therefore sacrifice this egoism, and surrender himself to love. In doing so he finds not merely a living, but also a life-giving power, and does not forfeit his individual being together with his egoism, but on the contrary makes it eternal.”
― The Meaning of Love
― The Meaning of Love
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