AtD: John MacTaggart Ellis MacTaggart

[Keith Davis]

Naming God may be the most persistent lie.

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> On Jul 9, 2019, at 9:35 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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> 
>> 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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