The Wisdom of Life: And Other Essays
The Wisdom of Life: And Other Essays
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But we have further to bear in mind that these his views found recognition and circulation, superseding all that was earlier and better, and so became, later on the foundation of Hipparchus, and afterward of the Ptolemaic cosmology, with which mankind had to content itself till the beginning of the sixteenth century, to the great advantage, doubtless, of the Jewish-Christian reli- Digitized by Google ISO SCHOPENHAUER'S ESSAYS gious dogmas, which are at bottom incompatible with the Kopemican cos...mology. ( For how should there be a God in heaven when there is no heaven?) Theism when seriously meant, necessarily presupposes the division of the worid into heaven and earth; on the latter men run about, in the former sits the God who rules them. But if astronomy takes the heaven away, it has taken the God with it also; it has, that is to say, so extended the world that there is no room left for God. But a personal being, such as every God must necessarily be, who has no place, but is everywhere and nowhere, can merely be spoken of, but not imagined, and therefore not believed in.
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But we have further to bear in mind that these his views found recognition and circulation, superseding all that was earlier and better, and so became, later on the foundation of Hipparchus, and afterward of the Ptolemaic cosmology, with which mankind had to content itself till the beginning of the sixteenth century, to the great advantage, doubtless, of the Jewish-Christian reli- Digitized by Google ISO SCHOPENHAUER'S ESSAYS gious dogmas, which are at bottom incompatible with the Kopemican cos...mology. ( For how should there be a God in heaven when there is no heaven?) Theism when seriously meant, necessarily presupposes the division of the worid into heaven and earth; on the latter men run about, in the former sits the God who rules them. But if astronomy takes the heaven away, it has taken the God with it also; it has, that is to say, so extended the world that there is no room left for God. But a personal being, such as every God must necessarily be, who has no place, but is everywhere and nowhere, can merely be spoken of, but not imagined, and therefore not believed in.
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