At Large From The Border
posted by on August 19 at 10:52 AM
Still at the Surrey, BC/Blaine, WA border crossing, and have the time to share with you this startling passage from the book I’m currently reading—-Philosophy of the Future by Ludwig Feuerbach:
I do need air in order to breath, water to drink, light to see, vegetable and animal materials to eat; but nothing, at least directly, in order to think. I cannot conceive of breathing without air, seeing without light, but I can conceive of a thinking that is isolated in itself.
Feuerbach is here attempting show that the Reason of philosophy is none other than the God of theology. Reason, thought, like God, is not limited by biology, by nature, by the world of things and living beings. That is Feuerbach’s point. But there is also something else worth considering in the light of his insight: Spinoza’s description of the mind. For Spinoza, the mind is “the idea of the body.” It is for this reason his philosophy is not rational theology. Reason is never separated from life, from the passions, from feelings. I must now stop. The bus is moving again,
Perhaps Graham Nash was a Feuerbachian.
"If I could make a wish
I think Id pass
Cant think of anything I need
No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound
Nothing to eat, no books to read
...
Sometimes, all I need is the Air that I Breathe"
...
- The Hollies
Let's start citing the German philosophers in German, please. :-)
Ahh, Canada. If Only I did not have that DUI conviction from 1996 I too could travel to Canada. But alas, I can not. Stupid stupid me!!!
Does he not realize that without all those other things, air, water, nutrition, he won't be able to think?
He says nothing "directly". You need to eat and drink and breathe to live, and you need to live to think(presumably), but that's still not a direct relation.
I'd argue that the nature and capacity of your thoughts are a direct result of your physical condition. OK, maybe I wouldn't ARGUE it, but it's true.
Why does so much philosophy have to be arguing semantics? To much time spent on what it MEANS to be, not enough time on what it IS to be. Or something.
I wonder if Feuerbach can conceive of thinking without electro-chemical reaction... ^..^
you took a bus?
Worst way to go.
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