How is it possible for thinkers, that really think?, to believe that the world is out of substance? I find it a moral position expressed by people raised in luxury. The meaning of life manifests itself in the experience of resistance and challenges. The more difficult life is, the more substance human are able to sense. The moral position of antiessentialisme is based on ideals:

• not to hurt others
• to avoid all forms of conflict (both external and internal)
• to avoid having to think
• to tolerate everything
• to remove all forms of power
• to make everything equal

Meaning and value is the soul of the world

screaming from nature

each human has to sense these truths on their own.

It is a lonely quest towards humanity

Thinking is part of being. The pain of thinking might bring human into turtle shell. The stream of verbal opinions overloads our cognitive capacity. The romantic or aesthetic dream of a natural life in love and immediacy is the human wish of emancipation from the violence of thinking.

Trust is the opposite of fear and critic. If you trust something you do not fear this phenomenon. If you trust something you do not feel a need to criticize the phenomenon. Trust provides a feeling of well-being. Fear provides a feeling of anger. The feeling of well-being provides care, while anger directs you towards critic.

In the deep of being there is a dichotomy between trust and fear. These dispositions has two directions.

Fear-anger-critic

Trust-well-being-care

There is no real critic without some kind of fear and anger. Children can not learn critical thinking without feeling fear towards some knowledge or phenomena. Human are not able to criticize a source or a argument if they trust and care for it. There is no critic without this resistance. At the same time, trust, well-being and care is the purpose of being. Fear, anger and critic is the lack of trust, well-being and care.

I do fear some of the development of modern social science, but I trust the insight presented above. In this a care. If you are being critical to this insight, you probably experience it as strange or unknown. It is possible to trust the unknown or the stranger, but if you start care for the unknown, the unknown has become known and the stranger has become a friend.

The essence of school is freedom for all. There is no freedom for all without social cohesion. Modern school points towards increased social inequalities and freedom for the meritocrats.

The essence of criticism is tacit knowledge. The bodily experience that something is wrong. It is difficult to express the experience. We know that something is wrong but are not able to express what and why. Today we emphasize verbal criticism which demands that we are able to express what, why and how to solve the problem. This ideal is problematic, cause it presuppose that human are able to verbalize the tacit knowledge. We need to emphazise moaning and physical protest to accept the tacit value of experience something as wrong. Then we could also participate in a verbal dialogue about the structure of the problem, as someone who has experience the problem as first-hand knowledge.

The essence of knowledge is moral values. The virtue of wisdom is the value that makes life worth living. All knowledge of interest has some form of value. This is when knowledge becomes alive. When it becomes part of the living human being, not as something you remember, but something you live by. This is when knowledge becomes a formative force. The being preserve the wisdom because it has value of the future. As humans we live by the same knowledge and have the same values of existence. Sensus communis is this knowledge and now cultural power is able to abolish this knowledge.

Existential essentialism is about what is good in being. An essentialistic approach experience that something is better or of greater value then something else. Without essence the world becomes indifferent, empty, open, boundless, dynamic, complex and leveled. Human without essence is like a an empty pipe where the water flows through without friction.

Existential essentialism is not about certainty about the external world, it is expressionism of what really is as a synthetic intuition of the external and internal world. Language construct certainty about the external world. Synthetic intuition express truth of the external and internal world. Look at Edvard Munchs paiting “Autumn Ploughing” 1919. This picture unfold the human soul and the farmers work to bring forth a healthy soil after harvest. It is not a certain picture of what has happen, but an expression of Munchs synthetic intuition. Munch is not only a spectator to the farmers work. He participate in the work bringing his platonic truth into the farmers field of ploughing.

The essence of a phenomenon unfolds in real life. The essence of a face is experienced in the meeting. We are not able to express the essence of a face through verbal scientific language? We can express some characteristics, but never in such a way that capture what makes the face this face? A painting might unfold the essence. An unknown reader are able to experience the essence of a face through a painting. A great painting expresses a deep profound meaning of real life, as proven by expressionism. A verbal text might also unfold such a profound meaning, through a poem or an aphorism. Situations and phenomena are like faces. Expressionistic paintings and writing might unfold a profound essence of life.