Listen my beloved
Listen, O dearly beloved!
I am the Truth of the universe,
The center of circumferences.
I am the Principle and the Constituent.
The power initiated between heavens and the Earth.
I created perception in you,
so that you can perceive Me
Your perceptions come into reality,
only if you could perceive Me.
But you cannot perceive me through yourself,
you cannot see Me through your own eyes,
Only through My eyes, you can see Me and yourself..
⁵²⁰¹³¹⁴
By Ibn Arabi
Seeking a clue to the principle involved, she asked the young woman one day, “What is your goal in life? What is it that you want to achieve?” The young woman answered immediately, as if the answer had long been clear in her mind:
“I’ll tell you what I want. If nobody had an automobile, then I would want to have one automobile. If some people have one, then I want to have two."
...
The woman, Ayn thought, would conventionally be called “selfish.” But wasn’t a 'self'—that which thinks, judges, values, and chooses—precisely what she lacked? I want to achieve things that are important—important objectively, in reality, in fact—thought Ayn; she wants only to make an impression on others. I choose my own goals, I decided that I wanted to write, and what I wanted to write; she struggles to imitate the goals chosen by others. I set my | own standards; her desires are dictated by the standards of others. Why? What is the concept that will name the essence of the difference involved..?
Sayfa 132
(And when you’ve been hurt once, you’re afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)
If I deviate from the principle of duty this is quite certainly evil; but if I am unfaithful to my maxim of prudence this can sometimes be very advantageous to me, although it is certainly safer to abide by it.
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“I do hate you,” Xander replied, happily devouring his third scone. “If you notice, I have kept the blueberry confections for myself and gave you”—he shuddered—“the lemon-flavored scones. Such is the depth of my loathing for you personally and on principle.”
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Kant'ın Ahlak Yasasının Platon'daki Kökleri
"What would happen if everybody behaved like that?" When I do something, it is as if I were giving everyone else my permission to do the same, and I have to consider the consequences of that, not just of my individual action. The German Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), some would say the most influential philosopher of modern times, made this the basic principle of morality (though he found a rather more complicated way of stating it). We have all heard of it, we have all had it thrown at us, and here it is popping up in 400 BC.
["Herkes böyle davransaydı ne olurdu?" Bir şey yaptığımda, bu, herkese yaptığımın aynısının yapılabileceğine dair izin vermektir ve sadece kendi eylemimin değil, bunun sonuçlarını [da] değerlendirmek zorundayım. Kimilerinin modern zamanın en etkileyici filozofu olarak gördüğü, bir Alman olan Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), bunu (her ne kadar ifade etmek için daha karmaşık bir yol bulsa da) ahlaklılığın en temel ilkesi haline getirdi. İşte hepimizin hakkında duyum sahibi olduğu, hepimizin bir kez olsun kulağına çalınmış olan bu argüman MÖ 400'de pat diye çıkıverdi karşımıza.]
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The dual substance of Christ - the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh... And my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.
“Aren’t you supposed to hate me?” I
asked.
“I do hate you,” Xander replied, happily devouring his third scone. “If
you notice, I have kept the blueberry confections for myself and gave
you”—he shuddered—“the lemon-flavored scones. Such is the depth of my
loathing for you personally and on principle.”
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If somebody was sad for my sadness, then I should be happy. The principle that two negatives made a positive.
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...I always remembered the old adage; and I trust it has ever been my ruling principle, that honesty is the best policy...
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