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III: Contraries, Irrational World

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The same coin has different faces. To win, we need to waste or lose beforehand. Peace arrives fighting. Pain and pleasure, great and little, badness and goodness are together. Reasonable action does not guarantee the right ending. Human action in the world consists of risk and venture. If we live in perpetual doubt, we should not move; thus, skepticism must be in action too. We can stop. The world is dialectic, (Hegel’s comparison), beauty and ugliness are at the same time in everything, as badness and goodness.

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  1. 1.

    Ibidem, 112.

  2. 2.

    Ibidem, 113.

  3. 3.

    Ibidem, 114.

  4. 4.

    Ibidem, 115–116.

  5. 5.

    Ibidem, 118–119.

  6. 6.

    Ibidem, 121–122.

  7. 7.

    Ibidem, 123.

  8. 8.

    Ibidem, 124.

  9. 9.

    Ibidem, 125.

  10. 10.

    Ibidem, 126–128.

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    “Auch auf dem festen Lande gibt es wohl Schiffbruch; sich davon auf das schnellste zu erholen und herzustellen, ist schön und preiswürdig. Ist doch das Leben nur auf Gewinn und Verlust berechnet. Wer macht nicht irgend eine Anlage und wird darin gestört! Wie oft schlägt man einen Weg ein und wird davon abgeleitet! Wie oft werden wir von einem Scharf ins Auge gefaßten Ziel abgelenkt, um ein höheres zu erreichen!”

    J. W. Goethe, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, Sämtliche Werke, Munich, Müller Verlag, 1932, vol. 18, part II, chap II, p. 259.

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    In this respect, Terry comments that many attribute the sceptical atmosphere among a good part of the Jewish population to the considerable apostasy of many of them, but points out that this scepticism already appears in Ecclesiastes. T. A. Perry, The Moral proverbs of Santob de Carrión (Jewish Wisdom in Christian Spain), Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1987, p. 165.

  13. 13.

    Sem Tob, Op. Cit., See Ibidem, 129.

  14. 14.

    Ibidem, 130.

  15. 15.

    Ibidem, 131.

  16. 16.

    Ibidem, 132–134

  17. 17.

    Ibidem, 135.

  18. 18.

    Ibidem, 136–138.

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Galán Díez, I. (2017). III: Contraries, Irrational World. In: The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 127. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50977-8_15

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