Camus, religions, intelligence, science, and integrity

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Camus' only real philosophical question should have been: "Should the world be taken seriously?"

Means and ends. Religions and mystical organizations were originally a means to an end, but are now treated as ends in themselves.

Possible the only true intelligence is the intelligence to know that one must find those that truly know. Are we arrogant enough to believe that our single existence can equal or better all of history?

Science as a truthful enumeration of our extended senses?

Camus: "Being able to remain on that dizzying crest, that is integrity and the rest is subterfuge."

Is it, however, integrity for a drowning man not to reach for a life raft? Intelligent decisions must precede integrity.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.

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