Birikme ve sıçrama düşüncesi Hegel'i akla getiriyor ama burada sıçrama, yeni olanın başlangıcını değil, eski olanın meyvesini meydana getiriyor. Büyük insanı içinde bulunduğu çağ değil, geçmiş olan çağ ortaya çıkarıyor.
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My Idea of Genius.—Great men, like periods of greatness, are explosives storing up immense energy; historically and
Buddhism differed radically from Shinto in a number of ways. First, it was a
“revealed” religion. It had a definite founder in the person of Shakyamuni Siddharta, a prince of the Sakya clan in what is now Nepal. Second, it was concerned with personal morality, salvation, and the afterlife. Third, it was a world religion, in the sense that its message was deliberately aimed at all humankind, not at a specific nation or culture.
Perhaps we should forget about morality, and think about myth, fantasy, appetite, and desire – everything we can safely enjoy on stage, in fiction, on screen; everything that has to be excluded or at least tempered in the rational everyday lives we try to lead ‘outside’. We could add to this Freud’s argument that what appeals to us about great characters on stage is precisely their enormity. All the sex and violence they commit – all their ‘errors’ – act out for us the desires and fears we have to repress. Of course tragic characters are primitive, barbaric, monstrous. They represent all that we have had to overcome in the cause of culture and civilization.
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Genuine morality is doing what is right regardless of what we may be told; religious morality is doing what we are told. Religion’s power gives us strong reasons to do what we’re told.
c.s.lewis the moral law is from god
evrensel ahlak yasaları vardır: "differed as regards what people you ought to be unselfish to—whether it was only your own family, or your fellow country-men, or everyone. But they have always agreed that you ought not to put yourself first. Selfishness has never been admired. Men have differed as to