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The Myth of
the State.
"God
is a person - and that means a will. No mere logical
methods of arguing and reasoning can make us understand this will.
. . It is from God himself, from the revelation of his will,
not from dialectic, that man has to learn good and evil."1a
RUSSELL
" . . . [A]ccording
to [Hegel] . . . 'Men are as foolish as to forget . . .
in their enthusiasm for liberty of conscience and political
freedom, the truth which lies in power.' These words .
. . contain the clearest and most ruthless program of
fascism that has ever been propounded . . . "1b
HEGEL
POPPER
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The Philosophy of
Symbolic Forms.
"
. . . [T]he scientific value of a formula consists not only in its
summing up of given empirical facts but in its power . . . to call
forth new facts. The formula states relationships,
connections, series which far outdistance direct observation.
It becomes one of the most outstanding instruments of what Leibniz
called the 'logic of discovery,' the logica inventionis."2a
"The true standard for the
evaluation of a physical hypothesis . . . can never be sought in
its intuitive reference but only in its efficacy. It is not the
simplicity of the image that is decisive, but the unity of
the explanation, the subsumption of the totality of natural
phenomena under supreme comprehensive rules."2b
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*
Italics in the original.
1
Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945).
The
Myth of the State.
Yale University Press, 1946. Henry Cassirer and Anne Applebaum,
1974. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
a
The Religious and
Metaphysical Background of the Medieval Theory of the State, at
82.
b
Hegel's Theory of the State,
267.
2
Ernst Cassirer.
The
Philosophy of Symbolic Forms.
Volume
3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge. Translated by Ralph Manheim.
Introductory Note by Charles W. Hendel. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 1957, 1985.
a
The Foundations of Scientific
Knowledge, at 440.
b
The Foundations of Scientific
Knowledge, at 463.
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