Topic: Interconnections
A Paradox:
WE ARE ALL PHILOSOPHICALLY SIGNIFICANT
Tony Marmo
We try to defeat death everyday by moral means, which is to say: once one human is aware of or believes in his temporal finitude, he endeavours to overcome it by attaching a time transcending significance to his own existence. In this sense, each of us needs to believe in his own significance, which he maps onto immortality, whilst he believes in the insignificance and hence in the mortality of the others. The kind of significance that transcends time and at the same time seems reachable to individuals is the Philosophical one.
From the Maieutikos Blog
Posted by Tony Marmo
at 16:12 GMT
Updated: Friday, 24 March 2006 16:15 GMT