RE: A Lesson in the Practicality of Philosophy I Learned Today
October 21, 2014 at 9:59 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2014 at 10:43 am by Mudhammam.)
Putting scholastic arguments in the context of history, the majority of philosophers since Kant have agreed that he once and for all obliterated theological grandstanding in the dress of the syllogism by demonstrating their highly fallacious and inadequate nature as proofs for God's existence. Go read his Antithesis in the Antimony of Pure Reason section in the CPR. If you must have a permanent substance, I'll give it to you: matter.
"That philosophy only is the true one which reproduces most faithfully the statements of nature, and is written down, as it were, from nature's dictation, so that it is nothing but a copy and a reflection of nature, and adds nothing of its own, but is merely a repetition and echo." Theism may have been a very grounded, even rational, philosophy when Francis Bacon wrote. Then came Hume, Kant, Darwin and other perennial figures that gave Nietzsche right to declare of his madman, "'Whither is God' he cried. 'I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I.'" It's going to take much more than a trick played on a few uneducated minds to resurrect your deity this time.
"That philosophy only is the true one which reproduces most faithfully the statements of nature, and is written down, as it were, from nature's dictation, so that it is nothing but a copy and a reflection of nature, and adds nothing of its own, but is merely a repetition and echo." Theism may have been a very grounded, even rational, philosophy when Francis Bacon wrote. Then came Hume, Kant, Darwin and other perennial figures that gave Nietzsche right to declare of his madman, "'Whither is God' he cried. 'I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I.'" It's going to take much more than a trick played on a few uneducated minds to resurrect your deity this time.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
