Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
The Great Anti-Truth

The Great Anti-Truth

There is one thing we need to know about ourselves that would make life much much simpler.

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We are capable of asking ourselves strange and poorly understood questions. "What am I?" is one such question, overflowing with assumptions that are often unexamined. The word "what" assumes we are things and can be encapsulated by a concept. The assumption of an "I" is equally unjustified since there is no well-formed idea of what it means in this cont…

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