04-07-2004, 07:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2004, 07:43 AM by Chaerophon.)
Just to add to what Jester said:
I have a feeling that these here dead guys would most likely describe the people to whom Pete refers in similar terms to those that he uses.
And, along a similar vein as Jester:
What a presumption it was for Nietzsche, Kant, Schopenhauer, Sartre, et al to assume themselves the first persons born with half a brain! They must never have read Aquinas... Suffice to simply say, philosophy often swings strongly in the other direction, friend, and their existentialist musings are no more falsifiable than are those of Christian philosophers. I'll leave it at that.
Quote:Saint Thomas Aquinas, or Spinoza or Saint Tellihard De Chardin or any other Christian (I know Spinoza was Hebrew) philosopher?
I have a feeling that these here dead guys would most likely describe the people to whom Pete refers in similar terms to those that he uses.
And, along a similar vein as Jester:
Quote:Have you ever heard of Dominicans, Jesuits or a dozon other orders who do little else? How about Saint Thomas Aquinas, or Spinoza or Saint Tellihard De Chardin or any other Christian (I know Spinoza was Hebrew) philosopher? What presumtion to asume you are the first person ever born with half a brain!
What a presumption it was for Nietzsche, Kant, Schopenhauer, Sartre, et al to assume themselves the first persons born with half a brain! They must never have read Aquinas... Suffice to simply say, philosophy often swings strongly in the other direction, friend, and their existentialist musings are no more falsifiable than are those of Christian philosophers. I'll leave it at that.
But whate'er I be,
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II