When the materials supplied to our knowledge, having passed through the forms of space and of time, become objects laid out in space and time, then our understanding seizes them. And like our faculty of perception, the faculty of the understanding has its own nature, its own form. Our understanding, to speak like Kant, has its "categories". There are pure a priori concepts of the understanding as there are pure a priori forms of sensibility. Or, to speak more simply, our understanding is an understanding whose essential function is to unify things, to systematize. And it obtains this effect by making the objects it receives from space and time enter into certain frames aimed, precisely, at obtaining this unification. And these frames are the pure a priori concepts of our understanding, at the forefront of which we find the most important of them all, causality. By means of the causal relation, the understanding links up phenomena with other phenomena, objects with objects, and with this relation, and many others, the understanding ends up at an absolutely coherent and systematic unity of nature.
Sartre argued that Stalinism had been a necessary evil and that Russian Communism could still become more democratic. Camus, on the other hand, insisted in the Franc-Tireur in February 1957 that there is no possible evolution in a totalitarian society: ‘Terror does not evolve except towards a worse terror, the scaffold grows no more liberal, the gallows are not tolerant. Nowhere in the world has there been a party or a man with absolute power that did not use it absolutely.’
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'Give me your hand!'
Oh, Nastenka! It will be sad, you know, to be left alone, quite alone, and not even have something to regret - nothing, absolutely nothing . . . because all that I have lost, all this, it was all nothing, a stupid, round zero - it was merely a dream!'
I shall turn into nothing, absolutely nothing. And can it really be true that the consciousness that I shall completely cease to exist immediately and so everything else will cease to exist...
Ancak önemli bir Angio-Sakson lafını burada hatırlayalım: "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Güç yozlaştırır, tam güç tamamen yozlaştırır).
The most anti-authoritarian statement in the Zen tradition is probably I-Hsuan’s. Speaking metaphorically, he declared:
"Kill anything that you happen on. Kill the Buddha if you happen to meet him. Kill a patriarch or an arhat [saint] if you happen to meet him. Kill your parents or relatives if you happen to meet them. Only then can you be free, not bound by material things, and absolutely free and at ease …"