An interesting passage that brought to mind Arthur Jermyn. If we see people as naked apes, we cannot but be cynical concerning the superstructure of justification associated with many of the most memorable human enterprises. Once we accept that many of our political and military endeavours are the working out of a primitive instinct of territoriality, we can no longer regard as fully meaningful the gloss of reasoning and argument which men use in the attempt to show that their undertakings are reasonable. The words of debate become mere persiflage; the talk a mere epiphenomenon of creatures ignorant of the true springs of their actions. We begin to undermine our faith in the capacity of human beings to know the truth, discover what causes what, and learn, through self-examination, about the integrity of their own motives. (Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, W. D. Joske. From life, death & meaning, ed. David Benatar. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2010. p. 60.) These kind of concepts in Lovecraft are what keep me coming back to his writings.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:28:54 +0000
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