Do you sometimes ask, what is reality and what is mere surface
appearance? Is this material thing, this rock, real? Is the world of
physical things real, the world in which there are cows grazing
silently in a green field under a bright blue summer sky? Are the
city streets real, the shops and office buildings, the lines of cars and
buses, the people crowding the sidewalks, the huge metal planes
whizzing through gray cloudbanks overhead? Is the real only what
is physical, material, tangible? Is reality only particles of matter in
meaningless motion, ending in death, the death of the individual
person, and in the vast death of the solar system? Or is all this
physical reality only the surface, only what appears to the senses,
only illusion after all? Is reality to be found elsewhere - in the world
of the mind, in eternal truths such as the Golden Rule , or in
the wisdom and purpose of God?
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From Lavine's From Socrates to Sartre
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