Philosopher
“To whichever philosophy you confess — whether to a dogmatic or skeptical one, to an empiric or transcendental one, to a critical or eclectic one — any without exception takes an unproven and unprovable sentence as starting point, namely the necessity of the thinking. No investigation figures this necessity out one day, as deeply as it may prospect. One must accept it and one can reason it with nothing; every attempt to prove its correctness already requires it. Beneath it a bottomless abyss yawns, a spooky darkness illuminated by no beam of light. We do not know where from it comes nor where to it leads. It is uncertain whether a merciful god or a bad demon put it in the reason.” #gideonspicker
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Philosopher
“To whichever philosophy you confess — whether to a dogmatic or skeptical one, to an empiric or transcendental one, to a critical or eclectic one — any without exception takes an unproven and unprovable sentence as starting point, namely the necessity of the thinking. No investigation figures this necessity out one day, as deeply as it may prospect. One must accept it and one can reason it with nothing; every attempt to prove its correctness already requires it. Beneath it a bottomless abyss yawns, a spooky darkness illuminated by no beam of light. We do not know where from it comes nor where to it leads. It is uncertain whether a merciful god or a bad demon put it in the reason.” #gideonspicker
wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/eLib2018/19180221...