Since anomie has been brought to the table

[Joseph Tracy]

Good quotes. I dont' understand you a w,  and you don't understand me but maybe that will change.
On Jan 7, 2012, at 7:11 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> If virtue is activity in accord with one's nature, such actions will
> give one power and pleasure.
> 
> To act in this manner one must face the truth.
> 
> The truth may be painful and hard, difficult to get at, but it must be faced.
> 
> The truth is knowledge of god.
> 
> For Aristotle, Thomas, Spinoza ...suicide is un-natural absence of
> virtue and thus the suicide is powerless and in the control of forces
> repugnant to his own nature.
> 
> If we act in accord with our nature we are virtuous and happy.
> 
> Such actions will be directed by reason and toward a common goal
> (knowledge of god...).
> 
> Moderns killed god, so they can not know god in this sense.
> 
> Betran Russell, a modern,  said, "The secret of happiness is to face
> the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."
> 
> He also said, "The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation."
> 
> I think Freud, also a modern, said pretty much the same; he thought we
> humans were just as driven to co-operate as we are driven to make war.
> 
> But war, as Richard McKeon, another modern, argued, just makes a
> bloody mess of things we have to sit down and clean up, together,
> sooner or later, so war can not be our goal, though it sometimes seems
> like it is to irrational observers and cranky "historians. "