The Litter Box

~ Friday, February 09, 2007

Aldous Huxley from his article, “Confessions of a Professed Atheist”:

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently, assumed it had none, and wasable without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption.... The philosopher who finds nomeaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics; he is also concernedto prove there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do.... For myself,as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrumentof liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political andeconomic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom (1966, 3:19).

posted by Nikki B at 6:16:00 PM