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Temple of Philosophy

Figure 13. Young women worship before a “temple of philosophy” constructed during the Festival of Reason, November 1793. Photo courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
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Dinesh said:

. . . . By the end of 1793, the public worship of Christianity has ceased in all but the most remote revolutionary rhetoric in a “transfer of scarality” from the values of the Old Regime to those of the new. In the most famous of these, held on November 10, 1793, at the newly christened Temple of Reason (formerly Norte Dame Cathedral), revolutionaries worshipped directly before an altar of ‘philosophie’ ~ Page 91

ENEMIES of the ENLIGHTENMENT
3 years ago

Dinesh said:

Philosophy, according to Schopenhauer, ‘is devoted to the attempt of the faculty of reason to solve by its own means and independently of all authority the problem of existence.’ It seeks ‘the ultimate insight into the nature of things attainable by man, into his very being and that of the world’ The philosopher, instead of being urged to investigate some particular phenomenon in existence, stands in astonishment before ‘existence itself,’ this great sphinx, and makes this his problem. He ‘knows no other aim than truth’. ‘The pretence of the impartial investigation of truth, with the resolve to make the established religion the result indeed the measure and control of truth, is intolerable.’ . . . . Page 251 (The Philosophy of Schopenhauer - Author Bryan Magee

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOPENHAUER
23 months ago
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