Thursday, 19 March 2015

A Wishful Thought on the Rationality of Man

This is what i wish to believe, that in everyman there is this core which contains perfectly coherent beliefs, although these beliefs can have quirky states where ones psychology plays an important role. Although this core may change its state, this core instructs all of one's desires, actions, and thoughts. This core lies deep inside the unconciousness, yet its state perfectly follows the will of the man and vaguely accessible to the individual in the natural mode. Hence no one is guilty of stubbornness, ignorance, and incoherence. All is rational, only all have different presuppositions. Hence all has one rationality, and the absoluteness of logic is glorified.

Yet i know that this wish is absurd. All that i can have is a postulated core in everyman. This core constucted from inference from the actions and words of man. This core may be so small, yet the smallest core will satisfy my wish as the smallest core will show that even the most seemingly irrational man is indeed rational.  But this is still just a wishful thought.

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

The One and Nothingness, a Plotinian Imagination

Is there an empty set (nothigness itself) in the world of forms, the empty set and the One at opposite ends.
Or if one is the size of the set containing the empty set, does the One contain this nothingness?
If the One consists of nothingness alone does that mean the One is dependent on nothingness or on the empty set. Or does it mean that the One simply depend on nothing, except on its own being, on its own being as a set?
But if nothingness constitutes the one, everything that emanates from the one, emanates from nothingness, but where does this emanation end, does it end at nothing (but nothingness is within the one), so is there an aether in the world of ideas or space-dimension or the greeks' khaos. Nothingness emanates separating and annihilating this aether or khaos. And this is creation out of khaos?

Or is nothingness just the absence of the one, should nothingness depend on the existence of the one? Because nothingness is contingent and relies on the positive truth of the One? So does nothingness emanate from the One instead? Is nothigness the first aeon (in the gnostic/neoplatonic sense)? Is nothingness a demiurge subordinate to the One?
Or can nothingness depend on the One and one depend on nothingness, is this how the demiurgy of nothingness start? And all is derived from one? Or is nothingness and the One is one and the same? Are they two aspects of the same substance? Or are they a binarian entity sustaining one anothers' truth and existence.