The Book of Non-Existence, Vadim Filatov [top 100 books of all time checklist .txt] 📗

Vadim Filatov.
The Book of Non-Existence

«A person seizes truth through death».
(G. Bataille).

The INTRODUCTION. How the Philosophy returns to its sources.
CHAPTER 1. The Captain of Soul.
CHAPTER 2. Whether thinking without fear is possible?
CHAPTER 3. The dark stars of the Non-Existence
1) Will to Death.
2) Not-Existence is present, and Existence is absent.
3) How the Nothing destroys everything.
4) Familiarizing with the Void
5) The Final Future.
CHAPTER 4. A Spiritual Horizontal of Nothing
CHAPTER 5. The Outcome
The CONCLUSION. The twelve principles of the sense of life


THE INTRODUCTION.
HOW THE PHILOSOPHY RETURNS TO ITS SOURCES.

«When one who is listening does not understand another man, who is speaking, and the speaker does not know what he means, - it is a philosophy»
(Voltaire)
It becomes obvious for everybody now, that the so-called academic philosophy has fallen outside own limits in which the philosophy was generated in the Ancient Greece, and has turned to dead system of ritual spells, called "a philosophical discourse». But right now, when the world changes into one big poststructuralist project, the philosophy comes back to native sources, presenting an example of universal model of eternal returning.
The philosophical creativity has turned to some kind of technology using which a thinking person adjusts itself on the corresponding relation to a life, and checks, how much it was possible to him. Proceeding from the nature of philosophy, position of the independent thinker, who is not pursuing the aims of material welfare and office advancement, not only provides to him a relative anonymity, but also denies all the conventional understanding of philosophy as an infinite process of senseless chatter. This process quite corresponds to the specificity of modern philosophy, as product of a contemporary civilization with decayed institutes of information violence.
Now our time has provided return of philosophy to the primary environment of its dwelling. That forces us to speak about a style instead of habitual for the academic propagation "a professional approach". Moreover, such kind of the exaggerated professional approach began to testify not only about provincialism of its supporters, but — owing to inadequate habit to estimate everything around it— about an imitating character of the professional philosophy as a whole. Thus, the last one for a long time already represents itself as a comfortable convention replacing a sacral aesthetics of philosophical spirituality by conformist chatter of philosophizing handicraftsmen. However, it is premature to bury them yet, for they in a latent form, carry out an important sense-creating function - so far as they brightly reflect the processes of fatal disintegration of a decaying chimera of the modern world.

CHAPTER 1.
The CAPTAIN of SOUL.

"The wise person does not possess humanity. All the people are like straw dogs for him".
(Lao -Tzu).
This text is written in the spirit of Edgar Poe, but it is completely not terrible.
Walking together with my dead friend Alexander Chavushian in vicinities of Great Novgorod, we came to the glade, where a kind of the ashes from the burnt down fire and a heap of garbage picturesquely opened. "Here it reminds me of our lost generation", - I have told, showing on the garbage. -"No, we are, more likely, like the burnt down ", - Chavushian has answered for me.
As an Italian thinker Machiavelli spoke: "That, which in a usual life is called as murder, in the politician is called - "to cause the big loss to the enemy". A habit to use of a violence, which was dispersed earlier, now reaches for a high degree of concentration.
Sentenced man has lay down on a medical table for reception of deadly injections. His execution consists of three stages, during which three solutions are entered into his vein, the first deprives him of consciousness, the second stops a work of his lungs, and the third stops his heart.
According to Jaspers, a person sees world of human activity as a state with its ruthless inflexibility. Beginning with the times of Socrates institute of democracy was unshakable to infringers of the convention, which unmasked its cruel character. A difference between theatre and democracy consists on the fact that the theatre fairly and truthfully recognizes that it is only a theatre. Meanwhile, democracy, unlike theatre, deceitfully tries to hide a fact that it is a theatre too. As to so-called Russian democracy, it represents itself not as a theatre, but as a circus of clowns.
Expecting execution, the condemned man wrote some letters for his friends and some kind of essay - for the purpose of publication. According to his opinion, his essay should give an irrefragable answer on a question: why he has made his action. Having studied the foreign policy of the state, I have decided to send a signal, intended to our power, because it became more and more aggressive. If somebody tries to estimate it according to moral and strategic sense, then my action is obviously equivalent to the air blows on cities and peaceful population of different countries, which were obviously incapable to protect themselves". It means that the state in vain appropriates a monopoly for legitimate using violence.
Many witnesses, who were present on the execution, recollected as the following: “- He looked so, as if he wished to tell us: he would receive not that he has deserved, but just the same that he wanted. I feel deceived”.
“- I hoped that, when facing his own death, he will tell us something like "an excuse", but I could not read anything of a kind on his sight”.
“- Without having told words, he has reserved a last word for himself”.
However, his last word all the same has been told. In two days before his execution, he has extended a poem, written by English poet William Ernest Henley, - "Invictus "("Invincible"):
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
... "It is better let the spark of my life to go out, brightly having flashed, than to decay eternally in a dust. It is better to shine as a meteor, than to be a gloomy eternal moon. I would like to be ashes, but not a dust". Jack London, 1906.

CHAPTER 2.
WHETHER THINKING WITHOUT FEAR IS POSSIBLE?

«We have nothing to be afraid, except of a fear».
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
I can name a last sight of some person as a most true moment of all his life.
The dying person obviously sees that a lot deal of his fears were absolutely vain. Daily overtaking death, a person comes to understanding of this true during his lifetime. So thinking without fear begins.
A person possesses capability of thinking and so, unique of all living beings, knows about his own finiteness. A presentiment of death, which is peculiar to an animal, in human thinking becomes philosophy. So, a bible thinker Ecclesiastes has fairly noticed that «multiplying knowledge - multiplies grief». Probably, therefore the person became a unique being on the Earth, regularly and purposefully destroying himself and his own relatives. It became for us like one of illusory ways of finding of a freedom in choosing. «To know that you are mortal, means to die at least twice, no, means to die every time at thought that you should die», - thus a Romanian thinker Emil Cioran wrote. And it is interesting: what is more awful – an endless horror or an awful end? A whole horror consists of that the people, without excluding even small children, are compelled to undergo both that and another. And now a well - known philosophical paradox of Epicure (according to which death for a person does not exist, for while he is alive, death has not come yet, and when there has come death — there is no person) hardly probable will help. Certainly, Epicure aspired to overcome not death, but only fear of death, which, on his opinion, along with fear of gods poisons a human life and does people unfortunate. Epicure most likely was mistaken concerning gods, because all representations about gods exist for the aim to help people with overcoming of fear of death. And people really are afraid not so much death, but terrible tortures connected with it. Thereupon it is possible to consider as a good luck those episodes when death comes suddenly.
A woman here dies. At first she has turned yellow, then her stomach was inflated and she began to moan terribly. After a while she has сamе то аn agony, but some more days continued to moan and groan. At last, a blood has rushed from her throat, and she has died, but even after that blood continued to exude. If this suffering body is a strange kind of animal, where is our grandmother? Perhaps, any force, observing our sufferings, makes experiments over people?
The Danish philosopher of 19 century Seren Kierkegaard gave a big attention to preparation for death («Illness to death») and probably therefore has come to understanding of tragic essence of a human life. But, if life is not more than suffering fear and fault, whether it though has any sense? Whether attachment to a life is justified? And if life is deprived value, whether our world is equal as to live? The definitive alternative to which Kierkegaard has come looks so - either reason, or despair. Life filled with sufferings, gets sense and justification as a way to rescue through expiation by suffering. Every person suffers not so much from a tragic element of his own life, but from reasonable comprehension of inevitability of this tragic element which comes to an end with more or less painful death. Therefore reason represents itself as a patrimonial damnation of men. Thus, according to the Bible, when first people have tasted fruits from a Tree of Knowledge, they have lost paradise. It is a quite clear allegory - so all animals stay till now in paradise ignorance, and concerning their own death including. According to Kierkegaard's doctrine, if reason leads people to despair, only belief is capable to rescue them from it. Then a fear of death gives way to it’s expectation as unique definitive true and a disposal. A fear is eliminated by death negation, and neglect to a life, will to death, worship for it. «The death is general happiness of all people … The only sense of life is to come to a higher degree of contempt for a life», - Kierkegaard has summed up in his "Diary". Not to be, not to exist —thus are most passionate requirement of human reason since the moment when it realizes itself in a humiliating condition of one of human body functions, and probably even earlier. «Perhaps, a highest pleasure of a birth is not