Note - man’s desire to know, Aristotle, explains what happened at the collapse of metaphysics when they rushed to the certainty of physics for another kind of safety - but safety and certainty, although innately desired by man, lead to the entrapment of necessity and restrict freedom (by restricting possibility, imagination, etc). Thus, true autonomous freedom, armed with autonomous reason, exists anxiously wavering between the two lures of physics and metaphysics, and it is our duty to hold that uncertain ground and struggle somehow for free individual happiness where the only necessity is the humanist desire for a happy life.
1:35am 17th August ‘08
