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--- Lainaus käyttäjältä: Laika - To 25.08.2016, 02:13:04 ---Tolstoi aina muistetaan kirjailijana, valitettavan harvoin omapäisenä -ja jos saan sanoa, aliarvostettuna- filosofina. Jostain syystä taas Sartre halutaan muistaa päinvastaisesti filosofina, vaikka Camus oli eksistentialisteista omaperäisempi (ja tottakai itse kielsi olevansa eksistentialisti).

Frustrated, Tolstoy answers his own question:

    “Why does everything exist that exists, and why do I exist?” “Because it exists.”

It’s a sentiment that John Cage would second a century later (“No why. Just here.”) and George Lucas would also echo (“There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.”) — a proposition that comes closest to the spiritual tradition of Buddhism. And, indeed, Tolstoy turns to spirituality in one final and desperate attempt at an answer — first by surveying how those in his social circle lived with this all-consuming inquiry. He found among them four strategies for managing the existential despair, but none that resolved it:...

...It was like this: I, my reason, have acknowledged that life is senseless. If there is nothing higher than reason (and there is not: nothing can prove that there is), then reason is the creator of life for me. If reason did not exist there would be for me no life. How can reason deny life when it is the creator of life? Or to put it the other way: were there no life, my reason would not exist; therefore reason is life’s son. Life is all. Reason is its fruit yet reason rejects life itself! I felt that there was something wrong here.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/03/tolstoy-confession/

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Jo Aristoteles ilmaisi, että ajatteleminen on yhtä kuin elämä. Ehkä niin, että ajatteleminen ja elämä ovat samanaikaisia: ajatteleminen loppuu samalla kun elämä loppuu. (Ts. se ei lopu siihen, kun ajattelemalla saavutetaan joku totuus, tai intuitio).

Ihminen elää elämistä varten, ei päämäärää varten. Samoin ihminen ajattelee ajattelemista varten, ei päämäärää varten.

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