Archive for August 17th, 2008
The Dark Knight: A Demonology Primer
1. The devil does not want to kill; it wants to corrupt first and kill only then. 2. Remember when they were running checks on the Joker and could not find who he was? Exactly: demons have no name, no identity; they are not really persons, though they have intellect and will. 3. Demons can’t [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2008 under Philosophy.
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Whether Goodness Differs Really from Being?
St. Thomas was wrong in saying that goodness was convertible with being. For (3rd-level) goodness consists not in being or in completeness of being but in communication of being. Goodness consists in self-diffusion. The consummation of essence is freedom from all necessity, and of completeness of being is happiness.
Posted: August 17th, 2008 under Metaphysics, Philosophy.
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The Suicide Paradox
The idea is that being alive is necessary for having any valuations, and at the same time life is itself something valued. So, by valuing something, anything at all, and aspiring to attain it or to enjoy it once attained, you affirm life as a necessary condition of seeking and having happiness. The interesting case [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2008 under Ethics, Philosophy.
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Is Happiness Good?
Happiness is a physical good (as opposed to moral and metaphysical goods); it is good by definition of “physical good” and in no other sense. To say that a man has acquired physical good is to say precisely that he is happy (and vice versa). The first part of the sentence carries no more information [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2008 under Metaphysics, Philosophy.
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