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Good Sense (Great Books in Philosophy)

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I'm almost finished with this book & have enjoyed it throughout.

If you've ever questioned organized religion, or had others pose questions to you - this book answers pretty much everything.

Baron knocks so many holes in the whole "divinty" of Christian folklore, it's amazing Christians still exist today, after this book came to be.

If you're studying religion, misanthropy, philosophy - this book is for you.

D'Holbach, like other enlightenment era philosophers rails against the medieval scholastic war machine of the Catholic Church. For example, Scholastic metaphysical truth is the science of "contradictions", whose impossible task is to understand "unintelligible" senseless words "castles in the air". Assume with him "contradiction implies non-existence" (ironically a medieval scholastic truth) In the science of theology, there (is reification, remember that certain objects necessarily produce in us the sensation of pain, not our perception or beliefs about them) is no progress, since each generation of elitist word sorcerers give " us a picture of God, one of a great chimera, in whose features they never agree, whom each arranges in his own way,and who exists only in their imaginations."(73) The Scholastic metaphysical explanation of the divine produces explanations of things, that are the multiplication of more " words, much more obscure than the things they endeavor to explain.(61) Perhaps, this text would serve as a useful exhortation to post-modern fiction writers, if they are bold enough to be martyrs for the truth or identify with a mirror once in a while. Never mind, go dream of your psychosis sublime . Nota Bena, "Would not society be dissolved and man return to a savage state if everyone were fool enough to be Christ?"