Conatus: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview
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C O N A T U S
10. The View from Eternity
‘The mind is eternal in so far as it understands under the aspect of eternity.’
Spinoza — Ethics
‘Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.’
Blaise Pascal — Pensées
‘…God’s creation is best imitated by the invention of questions rather than answers.’
Frederic Jameson — Archaeologies of the Future
‘Ex nihilo, nihil fit’ (Out of nothing, nothing comes.)
Parmenides
‘He who has not, as it were, looked into the abyss of the absolute Nothing will completely overlook the eminently positive content of the realisation that there is something rather than nothing.’
Max Scheler
Questions like why is there something rather than nothing seem like another foundational necessity in trying to get started in our understanding of what the world is about.
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