(What times, what morals! The senate understands these things.)
-Cicero
Custom is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
- David Hume
Custom the false coin of human morality. Instead of being troubled about the true nature of evil, people merely rely on customary interpretations.
- Diogenes of Sinope
All I say cancels out, I have said nothing.
Words are good servants but terrible masters.
Cheers!
Hail fellow phiLoLsophers,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/perm.php?c=86&q=194
Query:
http://brianleiternietzsche.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-and-nietzsche.html
When philosophy professors argue the plausibility of Kantian and Nietzschean psychological models, in relationship to Obama's professed familiarity with the later subject-- to what proportion does anti-Kantian bull-baiting influence the rise in U.S. national debt?
cheers nero for bringing back to the senate some keen philosophical discourse. it has been missing on our floor for far too long. replaced by all sorts of ramblings and oddities. except save, of course, our recent discourse into cynic Diogenes.
ReplyDeletelet us create a culture of Senate, and find our truth that edifies.