Thursday, August 27, 2009

We Should not Ask Why, or Should We?

Some scientists ridicule philosophers that philosophers always ask, "Why." Scientist’s job is to answer "How." I exhausted all these categories of people who do not engage with our discussions in previous posts. If somebody has not any question or any qualm or interest in knowing about the beyond, this place has nothing to add to his knowledge. Those classes of people do not exist in our world and we do not exist in their world. I categorized different groups that never enter in our discourse. Those scientists are among them. One can enter into argument with another if both party can negotiate on some basic, fundamental starting points for their argument. After this reminder, I am interested to see if there is any non-scientific discourse in the world. From the ancient time the question exist in our mind that if all of our knowledge is gained through the experiment of nature or we know things from the beginning by ourselves. For instance, when you leave your house every morning to go to your work place, you do not comeback every hour or every ten minutes to check that the house is not on fire or being looted. How are you certain? Or why are you certain? Is it due to experience? experience by induction? Have you ever checked it once or twice and then decided that it is safe to be far for a long time perhaps weeks or months in a trip or in a journey abroad? Or from the first day you were confident that you could leave your house without checking it frequently? Or did it start from the time that we were in the caves, or perhaps earlier when we were on the trees, and gradually we gained experience? We do not know if this is an individual insight or it is a collective insight shared by other humans. Our experience frequently breached in centuries when we were back and bandits had attacked our houses. But sooner or later we had to leave it again for a long time for gaining the bread. So for having such a feeling we become engaged in a philosophical argumentation. Even we could not decide what should we use: how or why.

No comments: