"But before we go on, we must decide if we think the universe is ultimately hospitable to human concerns, or indifferent and/or hostile to them. This is such a fundamental choice, because it has to be made before we can claim anything like knowledge of the matter, and we can never be sure of the extent to which it biases our subsequent speculation, that on the most important matters, philosophy is more like a way of clarifying our options then of answering our questions, and choice is finally unavoidable... "
If you ask this question and answer it honestly, you can avoid wasting your (and our) time with obsolete fuzzy-headed empty pates like Kierkegaard, Kant, etc. who speculate on unverifiable mental games and clutter up your thinking space. I am astounded that anyone as intelligent as you appear to be reads this stuff anymore. I personally don't mind your wasting bandwidth on discarded philosophic notions, but this is DAR -- not Metaphysics 101 at a trashy religious college in the woods. Are you sure they didn't call you "Pain in the Ass" in your junior high school? |
