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The Human Tragedy This
is my attempt to deliver a concise evaluation of Faith and
Intellectualism. “Philosophy,
like medicine (this is 18th century), has plenty of drugs, few good
remedies, and hardly any specific cured cures.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicholas De (1741-1794) The physical sciences and mathematics have tried to get us to believe that the whole world is observable. There is even behavioural sciences. Yet, to what depth can you understand observable behaviour; can you analyse all the stimulants to behaviour, can you even fathom what they are? |
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I think not! That’s why Aristotle gave us Metaphysics.
But ah, can we really experiment with and apply reason to the unseen? Intellectualism is naturally [my own reasoning] opposed to Emotion and Experience, being of Rational nature.
The way I see it, even Kant condemned Metaphysics as impossible, proposing the Weltanschauung approach. Well, how can we, ourselves arrive at a conclusion if each person’s Weltanschauung is different, sometimes even opposite. This will lead to completely different outcomes of the same analyses.
The words of the Duncan Mfune during the divine service in Boston, 2000, seems to provide clarification on this whole issue.
He
references the text word from the book of Revelation and states that
knowledgeable persons who we respect have tried to discern this book.
But the Holy Spirit must be the interpretative power to reach into the
depths of the divine laws. This,
because it is the spirit of the lord that reveals the future – John 16:13.
There were days when all the sciences were grouped under the subject of philosophy, together with the study of morals and ethics. Philosophy itself is a good thing – wisdom, knowledge and research are invaluable.
The desire to know
- Who we are and
- Where we come from and
- Why we are here,
is a natural desire.
However, there is one thing that philosophy does not incorporate – Faith. Yes, philosophy does address the issue of faith, but the practice of faith is not incorporated.
Without faith there is:
- No Creator
- No Purpose to Life
- No Eternity (if time happened by accident – it will go by accident too)
- No Truth (Yet you may say: That is not true)
- No Perfection
- No Soul (because it cannot be perceived by the senses)
- Only Existence
Does
the popularity of a view make it correct?
Can the truth be established with finality through study?
Can the truth be established through skepticism?
Can the truth be established through philosophy?
Can the truth be established through Intellectualism?
Can the truth be established through knowledge and wisdom?
Some questions as a foundation to the final question:
Can Faith be qualified through science?
©2001, Craig D.Smith.