I was reading the amazing book of Sophie’s World and I was rather intrigued by a point made. It was one of the philosopher’s many example
“A Russian astronauts and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing religion. The brain surgeon was a Christian but the astronaut was not. The astronaut said, “I’ve been out in space many times but I’ve never seen God or angels.” And the brain surgeon said, “And I’ve operated on many clever brains but I’ve never seen a single thought.”
I think this is a perfect example of how something can exist without the proof of your eyes. This is the total basis of faith, and knowing something even when you do not see it. Sometimes you can know something without having what most people call ’reason’ to do so. Scepticism is the basis for this. Yet, I believe that sceptics are missing many points of knowledge because just as the example shows the phrase “seeing is believing” is not always the decider.
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It seems that you are rejecting both perception and reason as being adequate paths to some kinds of knowledge. How do language and emotion help to get us to those kinds of knowledge?
ReplyDeleteI found that part very interesting as well! You make a good point. Like that one guy said "I think therefore I am" yet you cant see thoughts... That one day we all were trying to figure out the definition of truth, it was very difficult. I wonder how they would define a thought, and how those fit in with truth
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