Philosophy

Logical Positivism

Positivism: Christian Worldview with R.C. Sproul

The main ideas of logical positivism are the insistence that all views must be verifiable through experiment or observation, and that all arguments must have a clear logical structure. Consequently, Logical Positivism rejects metaphysical doctrines.

 

Plato Socrates

Albert Camus - the absurd

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Latin absurdum  - out of harmony

To abolish concious revolt is to elude the problen - the theme of permanent revolution is thus carrie into idividual experience living is keepin the absurd alive - keeping it alive is above all contemplating it ... just as danger provided man with the unique opportunity of seazing awareness so metaphysical revolt extends awareness to the whole of experience 

Meditations Marcus Aurelius

17.42 Throw away your books

11. -22.47 You can leave life right no let that determine what you do and say and think. If the Gods exist then to abandon human beings is not frighting? the gods would never subject you to harm, and if they dont exist and dont care what happens to you what would be the point f living in a world without gods or providence 20.04 neither good nor bad

Leibentz and the Kabbalah

Vaclav Havel

We all know that funny feeling of filthiness of ickiness it's a feeling we call the prick of conscience
Vaclav Havel when we make a compromise that we have doubts about so we think about it again and again
My bravery comes out of a cowardnes because I am afraid of feeling that ickness that i have made an undesirable compromise that I have sidesteped Comversly 
when I have done somthing I know is rright even have a feeling of euphoria 
 

The Best of All Possible Worlds: Modal Metaphysics and Possibilia, by James Shapiro

Even granting the rationalists’ definition of God as the unification of all perfections, I am inclined to side with Spinoza’s anti-“pure possibles” argument. The question of the “best possible world” seems to be a moot one. There simply is a world and there seems no reason to imagine that it could have been any different. Furthermore, Leibnizian Optimism seems to have undesirable consequences in practical life, namely encouraging passivity. For, if we believe that “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds,” why attempt to change anything?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) Was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history. Even the eighteenth-century French atheist and materialist Denis Diderot, whose views were very often at odds with those of Leibniz, could not help being awed by his achievement, writing in his entry on Leibniz in theEncyclopedia, “Perhaps never has a man read as much, studied as much, meditated more, and written more than Leibniz…            Stanford.edu

Section 205 of Daybreak

1881

 

Death is the Proof of a Just, and Good God

Aesthetically, our best choice, the most just, is a good life and a kind death.

Truth is easily buried, yet is distinguished by it's luster as separate as the diamond is from the dung hill.

Where did we get those ten commandments?  

Laws written by the finger of God on tablets of stone, broken by Moses.

Our history evolved from these broken laws, these books so defective and doubtful, that it seams vain to attempt this small inquiry into it's tricks.

There is more knowledge than can ever be read, yet society stands fast to this absurd biblical dogma.  

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