Speculative mind has boarded in a ship, and sailing against the tides of mystery to reach near wisdom; after all Copernican revolution (Immanuel Kant) is one sort of various hypothesises which needs to pass the muster through posteriori (sensuality+induction) method. A Mind is a connecting pool between ‘id’ and ‘superego,’ (Sigmund Freud); the odious egoistic impulse that evolves with due course of time, guided by consciousness which encompasses passions and desires into the direction of super-wisdom (trance). To the contrary, if passions and desires chariot a human soul, though natural, it directs to a distant place where instant pleasures are at work, however Socratic happiness remains far away even from the dreams. However, David Hume thinks otherwise, i.e., passions, desires and sentiments are the true sources of knowledge. Instant pleasures and short time achievements are the reflections of tiny contentment and idleness which does bring out mediocrity, instead enlightened mind is full of curiosity, like a child, which looks for ‘is’ and beyond an ‘is’ in order to find out an ‘ought.’ Sometimes ‘is’ is so mystified that helpless senses could not perceive its basic structure, unless childlike curiosity comes at play. If Hume’s scepticism, unlike Descartes, is supplemented by Newton’s naturalism is true source of human knowledge, then why does he fail to develop a calculus, capable to measure human’s ethics? Undoubtedly, scepticism has been a source of enlightenment in Europe which had enlarged the human's anatomy of epistemology from a priori to posteriori, but inductive method has its own limitations; like a frog knows his world inside the well, and like prisoners living in a platonic cave knowing their world with self-contentment. But what about a world which is unknown to us? Could there be a science who could unravel nature’s ethical mystification? A plenty of religions, philosophical justifications, and blind myths have blurred human’s memory in the name of faith. Even Kantian metaphysical world has left it unanswered. Furthermore, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ have been defined to the benefits of a few while human's ethics has been far away from objectivity. Could it be said that ‘faith’ is an emotional subject? A subject which requires more time, so that, a mature mind could develop scientific temperaments and further human’s society could cleanse all sorts of garbage produced by their irrational theology. But, of course, current understanding of science revolve around materialistic needs. Shouldn’t there be a broad perspective of science, a science not for destruction but for harmony, not for luxurious pursuit of pleasures instead of perpetual happiness, a science for normative superconsciousness, who’s even darker side is itching towards well-being of mankind. However, we have come a long way, but human’s mind is still searching for some normative standards to develop transcendental ethics in line with nature. Perhaps, positivism has its own limitations?
Cosmic energy is moving into various forms and patterns, its quest is to become, what Arthur Schopenhauer called 'will to live'. (Arthur Schopenhauer, 1818). He is explicit that: “Thus the will to live everywhere preys upon itself, and in different forms is its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all the others, regards nature as a manufactory for its own use. Yet even the human race...reveals in itself with most terrible distinctness this conflict, this variance of the will with itself…”. Every ‘will to become' is a movement, encompassing the history of past and future; the degree of rationality and its gradation are normativized by thoughts as hierarchy of souls and monads. Human being as likeness and image of God possess the highest truth, indeed! In fact, human being is the only species who possess and owns the truth, it is the only mode of being who puts truth at stake, constructs its horizons and claim of legitimacy and illegitimacy, defi...
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