PHIL 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Fair Coin
30 Apr 2019
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Our soul has been cast into the body, where it finds number, time and dimension. It reasons thereupon, and calls it nature, necessity, and can believe nothing else: unity added to infinity adds nothing to it, any more than does one foot added to infinite length. The finite is annihilated in presence of the infinite, and becomes pure nothingness. So does our mind before god; so does our justice before divine justice: the justice of god must be as vast as his mercy. But his justice done upon the reprobate is not so vast as, and should shock us less than, his mercy shown towards the elect: we know that the infinite exists, but we are ignorant of its nature. Since we know it is false to say that number is finite, it must be true that there is infinity in number. We cannot say that it is even, or that it is odd.
