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What overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted by prudence. Perhaps God prefers the abstinent to those who whore around with some denomination he despises. Perhaps he reserves special rewards for those who deny themselves the comfort of belief. Perhaps the intellectual ascetic will win all while those who compromised their intellectual integrity lose everything. There are many other possibilities. There might be many gods, including one who favors people like ; but the other gods might overpower or outvote him, a la . might well have applied to Pascal his cutting remark about : when he wagered on God, the great mathematician 'became an idiot.
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friedrich-nietzsche
homer
immanuel-kant
kant
mathematician
nietzsche
pascal
pascal-s-wager
philosophy
speculation
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Walter Kaufmann |
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"--Hasta cierto punto estoy de acuerdo contigo --dijo Rupert-- pero... --No hay "peros", querido amigo, Kant nos mostro de modo concluyente que no podemos conocer la realidad. Sin embargo, seguimos creyendo obstinadamente que si podemos. --!Kant creia que tenemos atisbos de ella! !Eso era precisamente en lo que insistia! --Kant era estupidamente cristiano. Y tambien nosotros lo somos, aunque lo neguemos. El cristianismo es una de las mas grandiosas y brillantes fuentes de ilusion que la raza humana ha inventado."
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cristiano
humana
kant
raza
realidad
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Iris Murdoch |
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I must always seem so reserved and remote to them. Once in a while they ask questions that seem to call for a statement of what the hell I'm always thinking about, but if I were to babble what's really on my mind about, say, the a priori presumption of the continuity of a motorcycle from second to second and do this without benefit of the entire edifice of the Chautauqua, they'd just be startled and wonder what's wrong. I really am interested in this continuity and the way we talk and think about it and so tend to get removed from the usual lunchtime situation and this gives an appearance of remoteness. It's a problem.
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deep-thoughts
introvert
introvert-problems
kant
remote
remoteness
thinking
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Robert Pirsig |
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Kant ist uber dieses ausserliche Verhaltnis des Verstandes als des Vermogens der Begriffe und des Begriffes selbst zum Ich hinausgegangen. Es gehort zu den tiefsten und richtigsten Einsichten, die sich in der Kritik der Vernunft finden, dass die Einheit, die das Wesen des Begriffs ausmacht, als die ursprunglich-synthetische Einheit der Apperzeption, als Einheit des >>Ich denke<< oder des Selbstbewusstseins erkannt wird
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einheit-der-apperzeption
hegel
kant
selbstbewusstsein
verstand
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |