Saturday, February 25, 2017

Philosophy Wire: Life. Acting. Suffering.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-02-25]: He who acts will suffer. Pain is the only lesson of life. Logic despises antiphaseis (contradictions), however life is full of them. Logic is like a map for the cosmos. It can show it, but it has nothing to do with its reality. You cannot speak about logic. You can only show it. (Logicomix) Atheists believe in the “objective” reality. And yet they shout to others for dogmatism. Atheists believe in logic. And yet they deny the logic of others. We live in an era of logic. We live in an era when people try to remove any pain from their lives. And yet we are more dead than ever. The meaning of the cosmos lies outside it. (Wittgenstein) See the logic in the irrational. Only then will you be free to actually live. As part of the transrational (Gr. υπέρλογο) One. Acting. Suffering...

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