Kimmo Huosionmaa
Thinking about Gottfried Leibniz and his relationship with feelings is quite difficult. Gottfried Leibniz was the man, who made the worlds first mechanical computer. So in the Leibniz world was only one rule to think. For Leibniz, the human must be like some thinking machine, what doesn't let the feelings when the brains are working with some problem.
And some persons maybe should thank the god, that lobotomy was not invented in the time of Leibniz. By using the lobotomy could be possible to create the "thinking machine" who doesn't have any feelings for another person. Lobotomy could destroy the feelings of the human. And that could be the way to create the person, who doesn't have feelings at all.
When we are talking about the morality and philosophy, we must understand that some philosophers might used cover identities during their life, because their work didn't always satisfy another person, and because all philosophers are quite liberal persons, they might get very bad troubles, if they were worked in the absolute monarchs in late 18th. century. In those days everything that didn't satisfy the kings were censored. And then the person, who published awkward things about the way of rule the nations, the route would go to execution place. That's why the philosophers must live under the cover identity because they must avoid the hate of the rulers of the state.
When we are talking about the persons, who wrote the texts about the refinement of humans, they would get many letters from the religious people. This is the reason, why philosophers sometimes write their essays for the secret name, and then we will return to the things like the name of René Descartes. I believe that this very civilized man was actually normal Swedish person, who just studied French.
That language covered the identity of this man, who created the idea, the thinking is the thing, what makes the existence of the creature, and this is the nucleus of his famous phrase, what goes something like this: "I think, so I am". The thinking of abstraction is the key element of the mankind dominance of the planet Earth. The abstraction makes possible to plan the houses and other things before. In the real world, the ability to think the abstract things is called the imagination.
When we are talking about the innovation, we are talking about the productive imagination. That makes us create new technology and new solutions. But when we are talking about the people like philosophers, we must say, that many of those people were quite liberal, and of course the liberalism and freedom of thinking are not always been satisfied for the kings and other rulers of the nation.
Freedom of thinking is freedom for speaking. And that freedom means the threat to dictators and the authoritarian governments. If the man thinks another way than others, that person will become dangerous. The thing is called the rebellion, and those rebellious persons are very dangerous for authoritarian governments, because those leaders have always some secrets, what they don't want to share.
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