(May 30, 2016 at 9:32 am)Mudhammam Wrote: "Had we not the knowledge of the life to come, I believe there would be few persons who, being at the point of death, were not content to take up life again, on condition of passing through the same amount of good and evil, provided always that it were not the same kind: one would be content with variety, without requiring a better condition than that wherein one had been."
- Leibniz, Essays in Theodicy, Pt. 1, §14
"Nay, if some god should give me leave to return to infancy from my old age, to weep once more in my cradle, I should vehemently protest; for, truly, after I have run my race I have no wish to be recalled, as it were, from the goal to the starting-place. For what advantage has life - or, rather, what trouble does it not have?"
- Cicero (speaking through "Cato the Elder"), On Old Age, §23
Cicero speaks for himself. Leibniz presume to speak for others, and through that usurpation clearly intend to establish himself as an authority to which he could then appeal.
Leibniz commits the sin of being like Jesus.
So Cicero.
