Faith ends when the knowledge takes it course, and in the finitude of knowledge faith enters into the realm of human's life. One cannot choose one without choosing another. One cannot investigate what it means to know without believing the prior building blocks of knowledge, language, rationality, historical and philosophical justification for inquiry, etc. One has limitation to conceive the domain of knowledge, being finite being with limited experience. Our imagination makes us believe in a darker world, which may not be logically established or empirically proved. Yet, people are losing touch with faith and embracing information as knowledge. Post-modernity neither allows the leap of faith nor rationality and objectivity of knowledge. Due to lack of faith relationship appears to be hollow, devoid of values, and knowledge is consumed as information without any discrimination whatsoever. People lose the touch with the work as they are compelled to do in imitation of others. But the question is if life is possible without faith? Do we have meaning of existence in the type of rationality which is compelling people to run away from their own emotions, feelings, intellects, in search of readymade object of pleasure, which, at the end, appears to be will-o-the-wisp. There are many committed atheist, monotheist, polytheist, and pantheist, but how many of them believe what they profess and propagate? We have scientists who proclaim to discover the rational knowledge to solve all the problems, but harder they put the efforts to discover the remedies, larger in proportion the maladies grow. The gap of knowledge and the problems faced by human's species are too huge to cover in near future, especially, if the scientists are committed believer in their method and rationality. Without belief life is impossible. And to believe half-heartedly makes the people confused about the direction and meaning of life. It's good to believe in something and remain committed for it. At least, it is more meaningful than a journey of unfaithful rationality.
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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