Saturday, March 17, 2007

Where both Kant and Hegel went wrong

Tal: welcome back.

Mu: Good time. I am upset.

Tal: You upset.

Mu: No. I am really angry.

Tal: What happened?

Mu: Image a word without emotions, where every one of your actions is dictated by reason, a where where everything is thought out and define by a clearly thought and plan. Would you live there?

Tal: Of course not.

Mu: Why?

Tal: I am not a walking calculator.

Mu: Agree. That is the point. Kant and Hegel want us to live a life of reason. This is madness.

Tal: Why?

Mu: Most of our emotions are not rational. They do not conform to reason, but they are the honney that give taste to life.

Tal: Who care?

Mu: You do. No emotion and then you are a calculator. The human spirit is dead.

Tal: So what?

Mu: Kant and Hegel preached it. That was clearly a signed of madness, just a consequence of Newton physics. -Ayn Rand preached the same. She was either crazy or ignorant.

Tal: Agree. There is more to life than counting stars. To live is not to do more than math. There is also the smile of someone we love. Is that rational? There is also the hope of a better tomorrow. Is that rational? There is the belief that to be alive is better than to be dead even though we know that for most of us living is pure hell and uncertain. Clearly not rational at all. A rational man would commit suicide.

Mu: Kant and Hegel. The poor souls!

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