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 Strange Case of the Human Mind

The Strange Case of the Human Mind

The life we know is a bounded human life in a human universe, and we have no way of looking beyond it.

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It's a statement of the obvious that we only know the world in the manner our mind represents it to us. We could have been like bats with sonar, or insects with ultraviolet vision, or anything at all. Still, evolution made us as we are because this benefited us the most from a survival perspective.

We take it for granted that the world exists in time and…

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