Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts

Saturday, January 13, 2007

So Much to Do So Little Time.

I have so much to do in so little time!
I have to read more philosophy. I loved reading philosophy (when I did). It was brain-scrambling but it gave me more to think about, in less time... If I had read Kant's ethics eight years ago instead of four, it would have saved me a lot instead of rationalizing ethics with my own effort.
He sums it up, one has ethics because one is free to do everything. And therefore, the law is of the rational thinking.

And then, I stop reading philosophy and I stumble in my daily life. And I stumble. And I don't know where the idea of morality came from. I had forgotten.
Being me, I forget the most basic things, and hold on to the very details of events in my life. That's being me.

I have so much to do in so little time. I have so much to think about and resolve before it's too late. I feel that the years get shorter. I get older. I need to feel safe before I die. I need to feel as if my eyes see in more than one direction, or else it's wasted time. And after that, comes the nothing.

My life is the time for me to make the choices.
I die, and then people make them for me. They burry me, and visit me (maybe), and talk about me in a certain way (maybe). Or forget me.

Friday, January 12, 2007

إيه الخرى دة؟

" Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason".

Kant
Critique of Pure Reason.


(Shehab)
"Write after that "Eh el khara da"
Me: Why, you dont like what it says here?
Shehab: No, it's 100/100!"

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Shehab: Ata7adaki en 7ad yefham 7aga/
Bossi ya benti, Kant keda mel gomla el oola/
Bossi ahe gomla tany WESH!

"So far as morality is based on the conception of human being as one who is free but who also, just because of that, binds himself through his reason to unconditional laws, it is in need neither of the idea of another being above him in order that he recognize his duty, nor, that he observe it, of an incenive other than the law itself".

(It took me 10 minutes of reading, re-reading and finally Shehab helped me understand it!)