The essence of freedom

The essence of freedom is to live in order of one’s nature, and not deny or conquer the essence of the self. To live in order of one’s nature, human must embrace the truth about one’s own essence. Without this honesty and courage, the soul will live in disorder and captivity.

The essence of truth

What is true is worth caring for. Real knowledge, wisdom, religious faith or art is all accomplishments that unfolds essences of human existence and it is these essences that makes them care-able. Truth is not about utility, effect or control. Truth is about caring. To know what to care for, human must unfold the essence of Mankind. This is a ethical pragmatism, it is humanism and it is a respect of truth that is necessary to escape totalitarianism. There is no truth about the human existence without ethic.

Theology and Wisdom

The dialectical movment between faith and truth needs balance. Polarization, assimilation or annihilation of one or the other ends in fundamentalism. Both faith and truth will always exist and is part of the sphera of reason. The search for truth without faith becomes scientific fundamentalism, when knowledge turns into faith. The search for faith without knowledge becomes religious fundamentalisme, when faith turns into knowledge.

Scientific fundamentalisme is occupied with methodological atheism. In critizism we trust! Religious fundamentalisme is occupied with fatalistic moralism. In God we trust! Both position is an attempt to escape reality in a quest of freedom.

To be in reality and to be as free as human can be in life, we need a dialectical reasoning caring for both faith and truth.

On human nature

Human can not be in harmony with it’s own inner self, without knowing its nature. To know one’s nature is to acknowledge feelings, preferences, desires, needs, aversions, values, thoughts and other inner experiences that ignites one’s attention, reactions and behavior. People denying their nature will be out of balance and burn their soul down. Human can not escape their own nature.