Thursday, May 26, 2011

II.1 chapter 27

Man chooses misery above death or being not at all. Even nature in all its movements confirms that it wants preservation: all living beings, even plants, strive for life. This is a proof that we love that we are.

About that we love that we know: one does not like to be deceived; one desires to know the truth, even if it hurts, above knowing nothing or being deceived. This attitude and right judgement is in man only, not in any other living being, although some animals have better senses; for man is enlightened from within, through which we can distinguish by an intellectual idea between just and unjust.

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