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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: St_Bill who wrote (30272)	9/29/2001 10:44:07 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Kant believed that a person must be free because freedom is a necessary postulate of the moral consciousness. On this basis, we universalize the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Kantian categorical imperative is beyond any theoretical analysis. What the heck does that mean? I looked up the Categorical Imperative in encarta.com, which had a link to free will, which said that. encarta.msn.com I think reason is the opposite of geometry. Reason is the observation of what is left after stripping away all of the illusions, or the geometry of illusions. It doesn't take a genius to observe. How does one arrive to the point to where he can observe the essence of being. We need to be free to fight our greatest enemy: ourselves. What is our motivation for every action we do? For instance, Ancestor Lu says, in "The Spirit of the Tao", as translated and edited by Thomas Cleary: The Chief Hoodlum To learn the Way we first kill off the chief hoodlum. What is the chief hoodlum? It is emotions. We need to wipe out that den of thieves to see once again the clear, calm, wide open original essence of mind. Don't let conditional senses spy in. What is this about? It is about quelling the mind. One removes emotions to quell the mind, then purifies the mind to nurtue its greatest elixir. --I have to say, this is true. But, what is the motive here? Is it to gain occult powers? Or to see the truth? How can you escape the chief hoodlum? It is reason that helps us fight the chief hoodlum. But since emotions are not geometrical, or logical in any sense of the word, reason must be non-geometrical in order to undertand them.