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?
Aristotle once wrote in his Nicomachean Ethics that there are four significant virtues for human beings, namely Prudence, Temperance, Justice, and Courage. There are a few judges who have courage and sense of justice, both. Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rohinton Nariman has been truly an exemplar judge and erudite historian, theologian and philologist, a great scholar of music as well as a courageous and meticulous jurist of our country. He did his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1980-81 and taught by one of the finest jurists of the last century, Roberto Unger. He became Senior Advocate in 1993 in the age of 37 and also served as Solicitor General of India in 2011 before he was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India in 2014. He delivered many landmark judgments, including Shreya Singhal v. Union of India. There are a few people with whom time moves too fast, but to count that experience takes ages. Justice Rohinton Nariman is one of those great jurists with whom a meet
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