ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Auguste Comte, Unsound Methods
14 Aug 2020
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Wilderness a mystery, hiding the secret of a certain kind of mystery; knowledge; good and evil. Diablo, the father of lies, who speaks lies because he has no truth in him. Faust makes a deal with mephistopheles, the devil, for knowledge and power. ********tie this to etymology of words in kant. Represents the lust for the possession of hidden knowledge so as to gain power over other people and nature. Name itself refers to someone who"s a master of illusion. But this man is "paper-mache"; not a real devil, but more like what marlow called earlier of being flabby, empty. Socrates talks about the "true lie", saying that all gods and human beings hate the true like. He doesn"t mean something exalted, but to have lied to the soul about the things that are; that are real. If you"ve lied to the soul, that"s what everyone will least accept because no one likes being lied to.
