Positivisme and other concepts of methodological atheism do reduce the truth into probabilities. Truth as truth contains metaphysic or mystic which can not be unfold by only studying empirical conditions.
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.
Metaphysic in the age of enlightenment
The idea of progression came with the Enlightenment. The metaphysical belief that the world could get better by the hands and thoughts of Mankind.
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.
Truth and Mystery
As long as there are truths, there are mysteries.
When the truth disappears, the mystery disappears.
The modern tunderstanding of mankind constructing probabilities and reservations through Scientific community, is the ultimate victor of the positivist ideal of science that seeks to remove all belief and metaphysics from our thinking.
If 2 + 2 = 4 is a social construction, there is no longer anything mysterious about this truth.
What remains is a demystified world of words made by man in a knowledge-producing society.
The irony is that this positivist ideal of science ends up as a post-factual society.
Without metaphysics, no truth, no struggle, just various forms of nihilism (expresses as economic progress).
Sapere Aude
don’t ever forget the pure and solid ground of existence
clinch to your anxiety of having to choose
remove all charades,
of knowledge and shoes
let your language speak to you from a fountain in your dwell
embrace your herritage with the earth
standing still,
you may know the answer to being and birth
The essence of theology
Theology is the science of mysticism. As long as our senses are incomplete, the world will be veiled. This worldveil unfolds faith as a necessary part of knowing. Human may escape religion, but not theology.
To fall in Eros
Without otherness there would not be any infatuation. Infatuation is when a person seeks to know the unknown. You can only fall in love with perfect strangers.
Between knowing and action
Sunburned are those who believe to know the Good, but do not arrange their life according to this truth.
The essence of teaching is enthusiasm and seriousness
As a teacher, you must care about the content, it must matter and form you. Then you can unfold new perspectives and not confirm what the listeners already know.
The essence of verbal education is to tell others what you believe in, and not what somebody else has told you to express verbally. You can’t tell anybody what to believe in, but you may prove your believe in what you are telling.