Intellect: “Color is by convention, sweet by convention, bitter by convention; in truth there are but atoms and the void.”
Senses: “Wretched mind, from us you are taking the evidence by which you would overthrow us? Your victory is your own fall.”
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Ancients Saw The Problem Clearly. The "New Atheists"? Not So Much.
Interesting philosophical post contains this gem from Democritus:
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It's pretty depressing that our civilization's philosophical sophistication has gone backwards since the time of Democritus.... And I thought it was conservatives who wanted to "turn back the clock"!
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