Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
Ein interessanter Ausschnitt aus dem Buch “Hogfather” von Terry Pratchett. Wer hätte gedacht, dass sich ein Buch mit dem salopp übersetzten Titel “Schweinevater” mit Existenzbeweisen, Ontologie und weiteren philosophischen Themen auseinandersetzt?
“[Death to his Granddaughter Susan:] Humans need fantasie to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
[Susan:] Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—-
[Death:] Yes. As practice. You have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
[Susan:] So we can believe the big ones?
[Death:] Yes. Justice. Mercy. Duty. That sort of thing.
[Susan:] They’re not the same at all!
[Death:] You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy, and yet […] you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some… some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
[Susan:] Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—-
[Death:] My point exactly.
[…]
[Death:] You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?”
Pratchett, Terry: Hogfather. Corgi Books. London 2006, S.408 f.
