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    Parables: An Essay

    By Edward E. Rochon

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    A brief preface states the purpose. Chapter 1 deals with Job in three parables. The first parable supposes the means justifies the end, the letter of the law overshadowed by the spirit of the law in terms of a parable of traffic concerning right of way. The second parable deals with the chain of command and intimidation in the face of superior authority such as to fail to uphold your own cause. The third parable deals with bandits failing to kill a wily bad man but successful in killing a righteous man. Is it better to be wise than virtuous? Chapter 2 deals with fate in two parables. The first parable refutes the distinction between determinism and freedom. They exist together or fall together, something covered by me in other essays. The second parable deals with how wisdom and the concept of fate interact in a parable of wealth. Wisdom is the ultimate wealth that frees us from the fear of fate. Chapter 3 deals with man as the image of God or not. The first parable deals with marriage and God. Are we sure there will be no spouses and sex in heaven based on what Jesus said to the Sadducees? The second parable deals with puritanism, hypocrisy and sexual satisfaction, favoring sex over asceticism. The third parable proposes that wisdom be the ruling force in marriage, either spouse giving ground to superior wisdom as the case may be, rather than pure patriarchy, matriarchy or the abolition of marriage. Chapter 4 has three parables dealing with society largely from the point of view of economics and vice. The first parable of the sale studies how we are rewarded for our production by men and God or society as a whole. The second parable concerns conmen and ripoffs, noting that self-deception is a primary advantage in a successful swindle, but that it is still possible to cheat an honest man by working through honest go-betweens and clever ruses, honesty no guarantee of wisdom. The third parable of the price notes that vice and commodity shortages are the primary problem when dealing with the problem of high prices, vice rather than price, the shortage of rice more than its price. Chapter 5 deals with knowledge in one parable of the sage. It goes back to the proper study of man is God position against the humanist notion of man as the central object of study. Since God is or would be omniscient and omnipotent, these the goals of wisdom, God is the central goal of study. Each parable is followed by the dilemma problems that are brought up by the meaning of the parable. The essay covers most of the important matters of life brought up by philosophy.

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    PublisherEdward E. Rochon
    Release dateNov 21, 2015
    ISBN9781310262487
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    Edward E. Rochon

    I write for my health and the health of the world. Often the cure rivals the disease in grief and aches. My writing career started at twelve when I attempted to write a sequel to Huckleberry Finn but never finished it. My writings have included poetry, plays, a novel, non-fiction and writing newsletters for here and there. Recently, I am dabbling into short stories. Apart from newsletters, nothing has been published in print. I bought an audio recording of one of my poems but threw it away in disgust due to an inappropriate reading by the narrator. 'Contra Pantheism...' was my first eBook. About a hundred eBooks have been published since including some books of verse, and my essays collected into five volumes, and one volume of collected poems. A few other types of literature are on my list of published works. My essays deal with fundamental questions of philosophy as well as natural philosophy (science.) On the whole, my works are as far above the writings of Plato and Aristotle as the material power of the United States is over that of Ancient Greece. I once asked myself if I had ever written anything memorable, but couldn't remember exactly what I had written. I started to check my manuscripts but stopped as it seemed the answer to the question was obvious. Gore Vidal mentioned in one of his memoirs that writers tend to forget what they write and are a bad source to ask about their works. Gore knew a lot of writers. I have not and may have been a bit hard on myself. Apart from self-improvement and maybe making a few bucks, my main goal is to bring about a golden age for mankind. Being a man, this sounds appealing. It is pointless to desist and all small measures are worth the effort. Albert Camus thought suicide the only serious philosophical question. He was a fool and died young. Suicide is a waste of time. The most important functional question is: How do I get what I want? The one question that trumps this is the ultimate question of intent: What should I want? As Goethe pointed out: Be careful what you wish for in your youth, you might get it in middle age.

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