Metaphysics
Bringing "metaphysical mind set" into my life has been a
tremendously
rewarding experience. It made me realize that most often humans
have propensity
for getting by something with the least possible expenditure
of thought because
thinking appears to be hard and burdensome to them.
However, tackling something
with a minimum of thought is like driving in
twilight with no lights on.
According to Heidegger, it is a downright
hindrance to pure objective employment
of one's intellect, which amounts to
no more than an impediment to an
enhancement of one's cognitive powers. I
view science as the primary means of
learning about life. Science becomes our
passion when we realize that it is the
grounds for our existence. However,
man's cognitive processes are based on his
or her perceptions where human
five senses are the only tools for acquiring data
from the outside world.
Sadly enough, all scientific systems people created tend
to be incomplete and
full of paradoxes since it's impossible to get out of
oneself to see the
world in itself, that is the way the world truly IS. Hence,
it would be
reasonable to conclude that humans do not have the accurate and the
true
knowledge of the natural laws comprising the Universe. Nevertheless,
science
improves as better and more accurate data is extracted from the outside
world
with humans developing sophisticated technology as means of obtaining
more
precise scientific data. Thus, as science and technology get more
advanced,
humans become conscious of metaphysical problems they had never
encountered.
From this standpoint, I believe that science and metaphysics
have the common
goal but different ways of reaching that goal. Metaphysics
and science go hand
in hand in their evolution. It's greatly fascinating for
me to regard myself as
a metaphysical object full of mysterious unexplored
intrinsic methods to cognize
the unsolved systems inside and outside of us.
Every achievement offers several
options of going a particular direction. For
example, one can use technology the
way the ancient Greeks meant it to be
used, particularly utilizing the sense of
the word techne. On the other hand,
one can degrade oneself perverting the
original purpose of the technology
advancement. Thus, I assume that one can
legitimately view human progress in
all fields of science and humanities as a
recursive process deepening and
broadening the tree structure of various paths
humans can take to achieve
their goals. It implies that more metaphysical
questions will arise in the
future as the progress goes on. One might argue that
metaphysical questions
appear born, emerge out of nothingness without having
previously existed in
nothingness. Being a soft determinist, I am personally
inclined to believe
that all the metaphysical questions that have arisen, arise,
and will arise
had previously existed. They do not appear born. We simply become
aware of
them as we advance our evolutionary realization of the world's
complexity. We
merely find ways of extrapolating them from the world in itself,
from the
true world outside of us. All in all, metaphysics reveals itself to me
as an
unquenchable urge to be ushered unto the noble and innovative task of
getting
in tune with actuality. It's not a new religion, neither is it a
system
created by men. Rather, it constitutes an intrinsic desire to know the
truth, to
choose the impartial path devoid of prejudice, bias, or
preconceived notion.
Choosing this path requires a certain level of
maturity, and I candidly hope
that in the future I can truly call myself a
metaphysician, which is not a
profession, but a way of life.