at is contrary to one’s own interests, and sometimes one POSITIVELY Calgary Flames Barn OUGHT (that is my Maillot Pumas UNAM Pas CHer idea). One’s own free unfettered choice, one’s own caprice, however wild it may be, one’s own fancy worked up at times to frenzy — is that very “most advantageous advantage” which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice? What man wants is simply INDEPENDENT choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice.
Chapter VIII
“Ha! ha! ha! But you know there is no such thing as choice in reality, say what you like,” you will interpose with a chuckle. “Science has succeeded in so far Los Angeles Chargers Tröjor analysing man that we know already that choice and what is called freedom of will is nothing else than —”
Stay, gentlemen, I meant to begin with that myself I confess, I was rather frightened. I was just going to say that the devil only knows what choice depends on, and that perhaps that was a very good thing, but I remembered the teaching of science . . . and pulled myself up. And here you have begun upon it. Indeed, Oakland Raiders if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices — that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what Halpa North Face T-Shirt laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical Ostaa Halpa Nike Air Max 90 Miehet formula — then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of the sort; for what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an Maillot Montreal Impact Pas CHer organ? What do you think? Let us reckon the chances — can such a thing happen or not? |
