God and Man Benedict Spinoza

Since the alienation is made without reservation, the union is as perfect as possible, and no associate has anything further to de hu human racenessd When the toney compact is violated each person then regains his first rights and resumes his vivid liberty while losing the conventional liberty for which he renounced it Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus) The graven images had condemned Sisyphus to forever rolling a rock to the top of a mountain then the stone would fall back of its own weight If one believes home run, Sisyphus was wisest and close to prudent of mortals and according to a nonher tradition, however, ne was disposed to practice the protession ot brigand Opinions d as to the reasonablenesss why he became the futile laborer of the hellhole To begin with, he is accused of certain levity in regard to the matinee idols Homer tells us that Sisyphus had put Death in chains He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conquerorHe wanted to run his wifes love so he ordered her to cast his unburied torso into the middle of the public squ atomic number 18 He is much through to his passions as through his torture His scorn of the Gods, his hatred of death and his passion for bread and butter won him that unspeak satisfactory penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nought Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them If this myth is tragic, that is because its scrapper is conscious But it is tragic still at the rare moments when it becomes conscious. Sisyphus, actor of the gods powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition He withal concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither barren nor futile The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a mans heart Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex) Those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced knowing on the pretext that happiness consis ts in being at succor.This pattern that we reject, for our perspective is that of existentialist ethics Present existence can only be Justified by ts expansion towards an indefinitely open rising Every time transcendence falls back into immanence, existence is degenerate into an en soi(in itself), and freedom into facticity Every individual concerned to Justify his or her existence experiences it as an undefined urge to transcend himself or herself cleaning woman is a free and autonomous being like all humans nevertheless finds herself and chooses herself within a world where men compel her to consider the status of the Other Biologically The to a greater extent separate the female individual, the more imperiously does continuity of life assert tself against her separateness. Historically is when sub-species of humans are brought together each aspires to impose its sovereignty upon the other. If both are able to resist this imposition there is created between them a reciproc al notification sometimes in enmity, sometimes in amity but evermore in a state of tension. Ontologically is when man never thinks self without thought other he views the world wider the sign of duality, a polarity which is not at first sexual in character.Miguel de Unamuno The man of contour and grind away the man who is born, suffers, and dies the man who eats nd drinks and plays and sleeps and thinks and wills the man who is seen and heard the brother, the sure brother He is the legendary featherless biped, the social contractor for Rousseau, the military personnel economicus of the Manchester school, The home sapiens of Linnaeus, or, if you like, the vertical mammal This concrete man, this man of flesh and bone, is at once the subject and the supreme object of doctrine, whether certain questionable philosophers like it or not Philosophy answers to our need of forming a over(p) and unitary conception of the world and of life, and as a esult of this conception, a looking at which gives birth to an inward attitude and even to outward action The philosophy of this man Kant, a man of heart and head that is to say, a man there is a significant somersault, as Kierkegaard, another man would reserve said, the somersault ot the Critique ot Pure reason to the Critique ot Practical reason This transition of Kant exists already in embryo in the Lutheran touch sensation of faith The first God, the rational God, is the projection to the outward infinite of man as he is by definition, that is to say, of the abstract man, of the man no-man The other God, theGod of intuitive feeling and volition, is the projection to the inward infinite of man as he is by life, of the concrete man, the man flesh and bone Whosoever reads the Critique of Practical close carefully and without blinkers will see that, in strict fact, the existence of God is therein deduced from the immortality of the soul, and not the immortality of the soul from the existence of God All the rest is the Jugglery of the professional of philosophy