‘It is no good saying ‘I don’t happen to be logical’. Logic is simply the architecture of human reason. If you try to base your life and hopes on logical absurdities you will go mad. […] People are going mad and talking balls to psychiatrists not because of accidents to the chamber-pot in the nursery but because there is no logical structure to their beliefs.’
Evelyn Waugh in a letter to John Betjeman
posted by Daniel Hill at 12:15 pm
1 Comments:
Seems a fair account of the DDE to me. (not that there isn't more to say, of course!)
I do think Aquinas was anticipated in this, though not so clearly. See Abelard and even Augustine and other fathers on the notion of 'consent': the martyrs didn't consent to death etc. despite acting so as to bring it about. This is ultimately the same idea.
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