PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Logical Truth, Antinomy, Logical Consequence
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That transcends, as the saying goes, the human scale; therefore it must be superhuman. There is no logical certainty here (p 40) There is no logical reason to think that what surpasses the limits of human reason must be superhuman". The only logical consequence of asserting the limit of reason is that what goes beyond that limit is impossible for us to understand. Affirming the irrational involves what camus calls philosophical suicide (41) The affirmation of the irrational is also a renunciation of the absurd, since the absurd involves an active struggle between reason and what is indifferent to reason. If we give in to irrationalism, there is no more struggle, but a reconciliation, which camus calls a poisoned peace". With his argument against the philosophical suicide", camus is criticizing kierkegaard"s. It appears that camus is diametrically opposed to kierkegaard, since camus sees. Kierkegaard as sacrificing the intellect (37) and deifying the irrational.