On Nov 9, 3:33 pm, Michael Gordge <mikegor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Nov 10, 4:19 am, Scott H <zinites_p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > In response to determinism, Kant explains how the antinomy of free
> > will arises from a misuse of reason:
>
> There's your problem there, you believe that Kant was trying to solve
> a problem, when in reality he was creating one from a faulty premise.
>
> There is matter and each entity of matter has a nature, the nature of
> an entity of matter is included in its identity, each entity of matter
> acts according to its nature, an entity of matter can not act in
> contradiction of its nature.
>
> "Free will" is a man made concept, entities of matter act according to
> their nature, they dont have a choice, thats the simple beginning and
> the end of the story of matter.
>
> NOTE man's choice is a Clayton's choice, he acts in contradiction of
> his nature at his peril e.g. as socialism is a testimony to.
>
> Michael Gordge
http://www.towerofyouth.org/filmgrp/4ff/claytonschoice.html
Yes, it is bold choice, since we must make choices in order to
survive, it doesn't seem possible that someone could survive well
being a complete skeptic;
David Hume qualified his own Scepticism by pointing out that
to live at all we have perpetually to
make choices, decisions, and this
forces us to form judgements about
the way things are, whether we
like it or not.
Since certainty is not available to us we
have to make the best *****sments we
can of the realities we face - and this is
incompatible with regarding all alternatives
with equal scepticism.
Our Scepticism therefore needs to be, as he put it, mitigated. It is
indeed doubtful whether anyone could live on the basis of complete
Scepticism - or, if they could, whether such a life would be worth
living. But this refutation of Scepticism, if refutation it is, is not
a logical argument.
In practical life we must steer a middle course between demanding a
degree of certainty that we can never have and treating all
possibilities as if they were of equal weight when they are not.
Story of Philosophy
by Bryan Magee
http://www.amazon.com/Story-Philosophy-Bryan-Magee/dp/078947994X
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