AtD: John MacTaggart Ellis MacTaggart

[gary webb]

Nietzsche, at his most wicked (and brillant) in elucidating the similarity
between Science and Theology:

"... But what I have in view will now be understood, namely, that it is
always a metaphysical belief on which our belief in science rests, - and
that even we knowing ones of today, the godless and anti-metaphysical,
still take our fire from the conflagration kindled by a belief a millennium
old, the Christian belief, which was also the belief of Plato, that God is
truth, that the truth is divine... But what if this itself always becomes
more untrustworthy, what if nothing any longer proves itself divine, except
it be error, blindness, and falsehood; - what if God himself turns out to
be our most persistent lie?"

the rest in the attached link:
http://nietzsche.holtof.com/reader/friedrich-nietzsche/the-gay-science/aphorism-344-quote_639d6aa76.html?fbclid=IwAR1mzLJEXO5uKzcXQ55QkY8UhRhTMLDXtAC2wwQeRF66OZB8r-OWZD3KfQs



On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 5:38 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> ‘The use of philosophy’, wrote McTaggart, ‘lies not in being deeper than
> science, but in being truer than theology—not in its bearing on action, but
> in its bearing on religion. It does not give us guidance. It gives us
> hope.’
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:51 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > was a philosopher at Trinity College, Cambridge, who enjoyed a
> > considerable reputation in his day.
> > I have never read any of his works, but I believe that he was an
> Hegelian;
> > an exponent of a philosophy now
> > out of favor, except in the form of Dialectical Materialism. ...
> > But it is said to have been Mr. MacTaggart who offers the explanation
> that
> > the word *runcible *means *tortoise-shell*
> > [ basing this on two books *The Owl and the Pussycat *and *The Pobble who
> > Has No Toes. ]*
> > *                                                         ----T. S.
> Eliot *in
> > "Can 'Education' Be Defined" collected in *To Criticize the Critic*
> >
> > Highly probable that this is the first place TRP learned of MacTaggart
> and
> > I think I see how TRP uses him to
> > satirize Marxism a bit and Hegelian semi-notions---history unfolding to a
> > great Spirit [knowledge], say.
> >
> > In fact, he might be mocking The Phenomenology of Spirit with the
> > Trespassers.
> >
> > THIS is where our history leads.
> >
> >
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