Studies in Human Nature
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This it may very well become ; for the joy in destruction is to some intellects quite as keen as the joy in construction is to others ; and the joy in either case is obtained if the issue is successful. 1 But it cannot be anarchical and at the same time claim the support of intelligence, any more than anarchy in morality can be consistently adopted in the name of a moral standard. Intelligence cannot dethrone itself. And scepticism generally makes its appeal to intelligent understand- ing, beca...use it accepts at least one condition of intellectual procedure — that of the impossibility of holding positions that are mutually and finally contradictory — and also because, as we have seen, it starts from an assured consciousness of the particular. Without the first it could not be a thinking process at all. It 1 Hence, it is inaccurate to suppose that complete scepticism necessarily creates the emotion of despair.
PHILOSOPHICAL SCEPTICISM 189 could gain no victory over knowledge, for a contest implies some common ground, however slight, between the combatants ; and its interest in the criticism of knowledge would be gone if its result could not be accepted by the defeated opponent.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This it may very well become ; for the joy in destruction is to some intellects quite as keen as the joy in construction is to others ; and the joy in either case is obtained if the issue is successful. 1 But it cannot be anarchical and at the same time claim the support of intelligence, any more than anarchy in morality can be consistently adopted in the name of a moral standard. Intelligence cannot dethrone itself. And scepticism generally makes its appeal to intelligent understand- ing, beca...use it accepts at least one condition of intellectual procedure — that of the impossibility of holding positions that are mutually and finally contradictory — and also because, as we have seen, it starts from an assured consciousness of the particular. Without the first it could not be a thinking process at all. It 1 Hence, it is inaccurate to suppose that complete scepticism necessarily creates the emotion of despair.
PHILOSOPHICAL SCEPTICISM 189 could gain no victory over knowledge, for a contest implies some common ground, however slight, between the combatants ; and its interest in the criticism of knowledge would be gone if its result could not be accepted by the defeated opponent.
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