Tuesday 11 November 2008

The Hidden Man - Who Are You:)

The phenomenal and the noumenal side of man. 
"Man-in-himself." 

How do we know the inner side of man? 
Can we know of the existence of consciousness 
in conditions of space not analogous to ours? 
Brain and consciousness. 
Unity of the world. 

Logical impossibility of the simultaneous 
existence of spirit and matter. Either all spirit or all matter. 

Rational and irrational actions in nature and in the life of man. 
Can rational actions exist alongside irrational? 

The world as an accidentally self-created mechanical toy. 
The impossibility of reason in a mechanical universe. 
The irreconcilability of mechanicalness with the existence of reason. 

Kant concerning "hosts." Spinoza on the knowledge of the invisible world. 
Necessity for the intellectual definition of that which can be, 
and that which cannot be, in the world of the hidden.

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