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We human beings possess many qualities that can be allocated to either liking or distaste. I think that even though we are very much capable of death and destruction, we still hold the ability to pursue our lives collectively and individually with virtue and discipline. It can be quite readily acknowledged that we are capable of great evil, meaning that we can damage each other, other animals, and the planet in a way that could be considered unprecedented a little over two centuries ago. There are many reasons for us to hate us. We violate the boundaries of our fellow human beings by lying, killing, manipulating, coercing, etc. Despite all this troubling activity and outlook, we can still build and fortify things that cling to charity, open-mindedness, virtue, and healthy discipline toward ourselves and others. We as a species are ultimately a paradox. We are perfectly capable of swinging from one side ethically to the other. However, we can overcome this dissonance by consciously choosing virtue and the right, leading us to uphold our fellow man and to also grant us the ability to practice forgiveness and mercy in various circumstances. I think that ultimately individual human beings can profoundly impact the world by simply advocating for the Good. We must take charge in adhering to goodness, or else our world falls even more so into decay and corruption. Some thoughts of mine.
Why does anything exist at all, and why does it have the qualities that it has? - It is profoundly mysterious and fascinating that Existence manifests itself in the way it does. How could the lap of Being even set off to spawn her many worlds? We exist in this particular universe with all the characteristics that it has, and we must stand in awe at the sheer reality before us, that being our conscious experience of itself. What are the limits of Being? What could reside outside of Being's capabilities? It is a mystery that we organisms may never come to elucidate. Perhaps this particular universe has already had its birth and death infinite times over, given the multiplicity of Being. Maybe all things are quite literally possible within Being, perhaps save the negation of herself. Why does anything exist at all, and why does it possess the qualities that it has? It is forever interesting.
It is interesting to see the specialization that has occurred in Western philosophy since the dawn of the modern era in the 16th century. A large portion of academic disciplines, like the natural sciences and psychology, were adjoined to philosophy for the entirety of Western history until special departments within academies started to truncate philosophy into the aforementioned. Western philosophy mainly operates nowadays within the spheres of metaphysics, epistemology, and to some extent ethics, logic, and political theory. The question is, will metaphysics and epistemology eventually reach some degree of specialization? It is a mystery, certainly. Some might argue that this will become the case, rendering philosophy proper as being somewhat obsolete. I'm not sure what the future of these branches of philosophy will bring, but I do know that we should still strive to investigate philosophy as it is presented to us today and not devalue it.
I think the ultimate conception of reality lies in an integration of simplicity with absolute plurality. The entirety of Existence is one singular unit combined with a boundless infinity of multiplicity. This means that for us humans to conceive of ultimate reality, we must first understand the profound utility of thinking in both essences and existences. Essences look at all the specific qualities of things and denote them so that their natures can be discerned. Existences are the skeletal frameworks of essences and are therefore simpler and more prone to reflecting Existence's unity. In practical human reality, we can see all the particular happenings in our experience; these are the essences of our observations. Our observations consist of principles of being that undergird the essential activities found all around us. This is why we must learn to profoundly understand the differences between these two ontological forces. In short, we can find boundless multiplicity within the essences of things, and we can also detect the simpler existences behind said things which have more fundamental forces and laws that govern them.
