Cogito

I think there is a sense in which the world began when we were born and will end when we are gone. I think the uttermost limit of what matters is what either matters or will matter, either to us or to those who matter to us. I think the good is always good for someone. I think the impossible is never good, but I acknowledge that the ideality of things must precede the reality of their good. I think that everyone sees what you appear to be, but few touch what you are. I think language allows the quasi-impossible. I think our actions are voluntary, but our will is not voluntary; we will our actions but we don't will our will. I think the chaos of the world is fully redeemed in the fact that it produced us when perhaps nothing but such chaos could have. I think that just this is divine: that there are gods, but no god. I think that the star-crossed lovers take their life from the fatal loins of two foes and through the weakness of the Prince. I think in a way the psyche creates the body and in a way the body creates the psyche. I think therefore that, in a way, the body creates the body and also that in a way the soul creates the soul. I think that in a way "the world" or "all things" are beyond being and beyond nothingness; I think that, in a way, nothingness has being.

The Separation of Powers

It seems that the greatest health permits the most intense exertion, and the most salvific anodyne produces the greatest convalescence, ending in the return to greatest health. But exertion imperils convalescence if that exertion drains the power of the anodyne. An anodyne is preserved and intensified by exertions that maintain and augment its anodynamic potency. And the working of an anodyne is itself an exertion and thus requires anodyne, convalescence, and renewed health. The convalescence an anodyne produces is inimical to any other exertion, including the exertions that would permit the convalescence, maintenance, and augmentation of the anodyne. Yet those exertions must be made; so they must be made by another, lest anodynamism, convalescence, and health perish utterly.

Stephen R. Donaldson, would you like to comment? I'd ask Aristotle and Nietzsche but, alas, in the end, there is no anodyne for one's own failing health, except the anodyne that reproduces that health in another, as if it were a birthright.

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