AtD: John MacTaggart Ellis MacTaggart

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"... 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?"

Maybe not so much "untrustworthy...error...blindness...lie" as what

Kurt Gödel,

paranoid platonist that he was, recognized as Incompleteness- Terminal, Inescapable

Incompleteness of any consistent system of human thought bent on discovering truth.

Nietzsche here seems to be signalling an early recognition of the final end of what had

begun in The Enlightenment and become reified throughout 19th century western civilization:

Belief in Reason as the ultimate pathway to...

jody

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