旅聯網論壇

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拉丁文「sub specie aeternitatis」的英文意思是「under the aspect of eternity」。大哲學家羅素最推崇他及他的思想。
引述一段文字：《在紀念史賓諾沙逝世兩百周年時，人們開始募款為他在海牙建造一尊塑像。捐款從世界各地受過教育的人那裏源源而來。從來沒有一座紀念碑是建造在這麼寬廣 的愛的基座上。在1882年揭幕典禮上，法國哲學家Ernest Renan作了非常精彩的演講：如果誰在路過這裏時，膽敢朝這個溫雅沉思的頭像來一句詛咒，那就讓他滾蛋吧！他將得到懲罰，就像所有粗魯庸俗的教養受到粗魯庸俗人都會和不知何為神聖的懲罰一樣。這個偉人站在花崗岩的基座上，向所有的人指明他發現的幸福之路；即使在千秋萬代之後，有教養的旅行者經過這裏，也一定會在心中默念：最真摯地洞察理解上帝的人，大概就在這裏》
弟剛剛又翻閱愛因斯坦1931年所撰「生活哲學」一文，在文旁弟去年十一月二十八日註記有下段文字：「愛氏説：I do not believe in freedom of the will. Schopenhauer's words:"Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills"accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of freedom of will preserves me from taking too seriously myself and my fellow men as acting and deciding individuals and from losing my temper.》
Schopenhauer: Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions,and thinks that at every moment he can commence another manner of life....But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct and that from the begining of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns....

恐懼是人類最大的敵人，勝於死亡。人類永遠在希望與恐懼﹝即希望落空﹞中翻來覆去，史賓諾沙的思想能讓我們永遠脫離這種折磨。

弟受益於此種思想。供各位參考。


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