The Philosopher & The Advancement of Science When I was a student I never really got on with any of my teachers, and that was the greatest blessing as much as it was a mistake. That mistake of mine, would be taught to future generations , whom have recognised the mistake of the teachers of the present by the work of the revolutionary students of today; which work towards the future. When the students work towards the future; Ive noticed this is when the teacher is truly happiest, and so for those reasons as a student myself everything that I do goes against the teachers, is not in spite of their wisdom, or the achievements of the past and their lessons, but because of them. We stand on the shoulders of giants, but we do not bow to them without sacrificing a new future and science. That is why I could be the bad student to many good scholars, and still perform the best philosophical work. My work does not wait just for results of for the future, it conceives it. The work of scholars today waits only on the results of the past, and builds nothing, but repeats it. Even so, I have still noticed those scholars and teachers are most happiest when proven wrong, and so I could still be a poor student to the teacher, and also be the best and hardest working. After all there is no difficulty to many in repeating, but, as I have noticed there are a great many whom have difficulty in performing philosophical functions, that is to say thinking on their own about ideas, or to conceive new ones, and so such work is left to the students which either do not pay attention in class, or do not pay attention, at least fully, to what they are taught and trained, or else, one must account for why science might advance at all if purely reliant on the past! Perhaps by the creations of scientific contrivances and machines of great complexity we have forgotten the primary motive and kinetic force which has given them their spirit and direction, human kind. This is presently the ultimate achievement to which many stand, and one even grander stands readily beneath us - the earth in all its appalling immensity, capable to the one whom creates an new understanding of applying to forces and observations, a patchwork which defines a new type of existence, and what was an unknown force, becomes known, and that discovery in itself alone will not be all that is triumphed, but most likely some other idea of important advancement or philosophical or sociological problem will be related, and able to benefit from such discovery. This to me is the study of the future as well as the past - and this to me, poor or good student, I might seek to have a wealth of knowledge beyond the recognised, as, the mind - able to create the machines of science and engineering - was the thing that was beyond the recognised able to bring it out of the ashes into some specific ideal, invention, or machine. What many men, have failed to philosophise, that man, and his spirit - very little different to a machine of divine proportions, has himself originated from ashes. It is and has been for millennia a question of the greatest philosophers if some machine, deus ex machina, as it might be called created men. Indeed - some machine , or deus, God, certainly did such a thing. It also appears, that, ourselves the machine, able to perform the same actioning that created us, and the possibility of building life from ashes - the noble question arises as to why. This is a question of course that cannot be answered by scientists, but a question such as why is always the work that of the philosopher. He seeks to know why, and he never stops asking, and so seeks to understand everything, and when he understands everything he will seek to know how each one works, and when that is done, he will look to see the similarities between them. As - is the operation of any sophisticated method of mathematics or science, or that of any machine. Indeed we are of the fabric and interweaving of the thing that was responsible for bringing us out of the ashes in this cosmos, and indeed, we are the very thing that will be responsible for bringing many other things out of the ashes in our own. This is the gift of teacher and student. Creator and maker. To have the greatest responsibility of any parent or carer. To love, cherish, and to create motion to other things, machines, so that knowledge and the joy and peace with it can bring benefit to all others. Often though, I have noticed even the good students, that is to say the other students than myself, create a world that is often opposite to this ideal of my own. And so I have frequently watched, appalled at the ongoing situation of man, and have quietly hoped to myself that it was not because they were educated, or should I say trained? Trained that such ideals were unachievable, and in the same case in science, philosophy , politics or finance there is always a cause to any effective activity, I had hoped most of all that people had not given up because they had been taught to give up. For those reasons alone I considered that the teacher could be bad, or at the very least the good students were not good at all, but they were stupid, blind, ignorant. They would be the ones to build the world, and I would hope that they build it as bright as those imaginations, fertile, wide, and blinding with lightning bolts and great dark shadows which rise up across the field and plane - such things - I had hoped, in vain - to existin the minds of others. That may give some onlookers the idea of some difference between the past and the future, the teacher and their student, and the things which they result, as well as those things which make each the way they are; in terms of a scientific basis of cause and effect - one perhaps should evaluate his society in the same way - and understand fully; the hastening and advancing conceptions of science accelerate the rate of human capability and therefore destructiveness, not just militarily but economically and otherwise in terms of axial power and exploitation; to fully understand this - we must consider the inevitable, total annihilation or at least the absolute capability , a point that several continents are already at as a people, and so the need even greater more for enhanced protections, peace and good will among men, in preparation for a point where every single continent must bear the responsibility of ultimate power. At such a point of even greater advancement a single man were to be irresponsible an entire planet could be lost by the blunder. It would seem that some students , even if correct ought to be careful for the world that they wish for, and the future that they build. I have often considered what many have told me, in terms of the electrical spirit, and electrical consciousness, gravitation and other instantaneous external forces such as cosmic rays and radioactivity should be hidden and buried for a thousand years. Perhaps this is true, but I shall leave the readers to decide, whether they teacher, student, rebel or maverick. All should understand the basic conceptions and principles of freedom. Many of them are lost in the realms of science, and so the principles of philosophical creativity might be lost, however, in the wrong hands, maybe this is just as well.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:01:06 +0000
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