Tetsu Gaku: The Iron Science
No matter how deep you push the knife, there’s more guts to dig out.
Jehovah banned graven images for the same reason that Plato banned poetry.
Not these labels—the Forms!
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.
How can you hope to care about something while still caring willy-nilly about anything? First, you must care about nothing. Only then can you really care about something without distraction from the everything.
世界を作るのは神様の初め別れであった。それから、イエスの死ははずになるんだ。我々の存在は神を死させられるんだ。
Assuming the universe is fundamentally like us is at once the most arrogant and humble assumption possible.
The philosophical problem of meaning is always already solved for philosophers of less than manic character.
That the world exists at all makes no sense. Philosophy is an attempt to cover this up.
Greek philosophy is interesting because they had faith in their conclusions, no matter what. If reason dictated that there is no motion, there is no motion. The End.
Skepticism of the Other is only possible to the degree that the community has broken down and isolated individuals from one another.
The skeptic and the esthete are one in the same.
How do we know the universe is like us? = How do we know other human beings are like us?
自分のイメージで神様が人間を作りけり
Smell has few words associated with it because you cannot be sure that you are sharing the same or similar experience as the listener.
Two ways of knowing—repetition and similarity. = One way of knowing—sameness.
Ethical knowledge begins by accepting the similarity of self to Other.
Ontology is repetition. Metaphysics is repetition plus soul.
神名は『ありてある者』
Is google true by definition?
philosophical double bind— we don’t know the world or ourselves… or the connection!
“how alone am i?” qualifies as a question of both personal and philosophical importance
SMAP is right, みんな一人じゃない！ Oh but each person must learn this alone.
The thing that makes the world real (mineness) is the same thing that makes the world unsatisfactory. It is the poisonous root of being.
Faith is the language of what can’t be spoken.
The trouble with the forms is they’re from another world. So though they’re eternal, they could leave this world behind at anytime, leaving us high & dry.
We are all necessarily public figures.
In what way could Mario 2 be a dream and Mario 3 be real?
Done properly, philosophy never tells us anything we don’t already know
People say, “You’re awesome; I love you.” They never say (but might ought), “You should love me; to wit, my awesomeness.”
Unlike the finger, the haiku _of themselves_ create a sensory impression of the objects referred to
Aristotle, he points at the world—as though we hadn’t its beauty! Yes, the world is beautiful, of course!, but this beauty is the source too of the world’s sting! Accounting for the sting is Plato’s task
Aristotelians have no need of philosophy, since they already posses the happiness giving certainty that philosophers seek. The word for what they do is not philosophy; it’s science.
A theory of evil is of absolute necessity for those who know already the world’s beauty, but fear its sorrow.
The trouble with the forms is they’re from another world. So though they’re perfect and eternal, they can leave this world behind, return to their source, and leave us all alone. There’s but cold comfort in knowing the forms are eternal if participation is not.
Empiricism is impossible, because without knowledge of the forms, one cannot even say what it is one has seen and thus categorize and learn from it. We must have the elemental forms before we can observe their compounding.