The nature of human intellectual endeavours
March 17th 2010 11:34
Been musing over this instead of working on my research proposal for the past hour. I hope by putting it out there for consideration it might let me be and get back to work, enjoy!
It is my firm and unequivocal belief that all disciplines of human thought are merely ways in which the human mind has conceived the possibility of answering the question ‘How’? This question ‘how?’ is the single most important expression of our humanness and intellectual capacity. The question ‘How’ is that question which was first uttered by that humanoid who emerged from his cave in the wilderness and for the first time recognised the sun as an object external to himself, other people of his species as external to himself, all creation pulsating beneath, above and around him as external to himself – ‘How’? is his ultimate question. All disciplines of intellectual endeavours since the utterance of that word are but mere variations on the quest to answer this question how – again I say all disciplines. From philosophy to science from mathematics to history to religion to anthropology – all – are attempting to answer that ‘How’?. For it is within this ‘How’ that an eternal truth we are yet to discover lies. It is within this question, that all future hope of humanness and human evolution lies. The question is not ‘Why’ or ‘Where’ or ‘What’ or ‘When’ – no the question is ultimately ‘How’. From the moment we have grasped this as the central motivation of all intellectual thought, only then can all of our intellectual thought be bent upon its answer.
It is my firm and unequivocal belief that all disciplines of human thought are merely ways in which the human mind has conceived the possibility of answering the question ‘How’? This question ‘how?’ is the single most important expression of our humanness and intellectual capacity. The question ‘How’ is that question which was first uttered by that humanoid who emerged from his cave in the wilderness and for the first time recognised the sun as an object external to himself, other people of his species as external to himself, all creation pulsating beneath, above and around him as external to himself – ‘How’? is his ultimate question. All disciplines of intellectual endeavours since the utterance of that word are but mere variations on the quest to answer this question how – again I say all disciplines. From philosophy to science from mathematics to history to religion to anthropology – all – are attempting to answer that ‘How’?. For it is within this ‘How’ that an eternal truth we are yet to discover lies. It is within this question, that all future hope of humanness and human evolution lies. The question is not ‘Why’ or ‘Where’ or ‘What’ or ‘When’ – no the question is ultimately ‘How’. From the moment we have grasped this as the central motivation of all intellectual thought, only then can all of our intellectual thought be bent upon its answer.
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Comment by Notes from the abyss
on I couldn't have said it any better...
Notes from the abyss