I'm taking Intro to Philosophy at the local college right now, and there are so much different theories about human beings and what we know (epistomology). I just thought I'd throw in my two cents. Feel free to argue and put in your two cents.
Human beings don't know anything, but we think we do. The average person uses their senses to glean information about the world around them, and although our senses are necessary to get this information, they are extremely biased. We do not get the whole picture, but merely bits and pieces of it that our brain likes and picks out for us to pay attention to. And who's to say that anything we sense is real? Who's to say that there's an entire world out there that we can't sense that coexists and interacts with the one we do sense? Who's to say that our senses don't lie to us? (Science has proven that these two statements are facts, but I'm talking about beyond what science has proven, because science is tainted with the bias of human perception as well.)
I don't think we know anything, and that this world might even matter or be real. But this is the world we perceive, the world we feel happiness and pain in, the world we strive for success in, and it's this world we have to deal with even if we don't believe in it. So we should live our lives here, and live them fully. We should philosophically contemplate knowledge, and being but we should take it as just that: contemplation. We shouldn't assume to know anything except what directly affects us (even though that may not be real).
Human beings don't know shit
By amm170579 - Posted on October 8th, 2008
Tagged: Philosophy
As much as I hate to admit it, this is the same questions that man has been questioning since Aristotle and Socrates. I mean, by critical analysis we can interpret what is reality, and what is not. Which, even science contradicts itself with facts, because if we were to apply science theories to everyday life we would be able to walk through walls, and physically alter other things just with our thoughts. Which, in reality, does not happen that way. You should check out my blog, I haven't gotten to my opinions on reality just yet, and since I'm new it'd be great to have someone to talk to who is level headed.
I like how you came to the conculsion that we should just take knowledge as contemplation. Although it is a bit ironic to come to that conculsion when you say that humans do not know anything.
Yeah, I realize it's ironic, and I think that humans really don't know anything but if we lived our lives that way, they would be unnecessarily complicated and potentially dangerous (not applying our sensory experience).