problems of existence:
there are many problem in the world and in philosophy
in particular, we have the cause and effect problem which Hume
was so interested in… we have the Kantian problem which is
"how are synthetic a prior judgments possible?
the problem of knowledge that so plagued everyone from Descartes to Kant,
is not the problem.………
so if a problem which bother philosophy for almost 200 years is no longer
a problem, what is philosophy problem?
I believe that existentialism reached closer to the “problem of existence”,
far closer then Descartes or Kant’s trying to work out the problem
of knowledge………
we don’t need to understand this question of knowledge, but we need something
more basic, something basic to everyone…
how are we to live? what are the rules of human existence?
science cannot answer these questions and religions answer
becomes false because of it where it starts and where it ends…
with the original sin and ending in heaven or hell…
existence in all its forms must begin and end with existence
and experience……….
there is no other path… we exist and by existing, we experience…
and we understand our existence through experience…
we can exist without experience… (people in a coma, type of thing)
but we don’t have any understanding without experience…
we cannot reason our way into understanding, not without experience…
so called “pure reason” cannot lead us to any understanding unless “pure reason” itself
is educated by experience………it is reason that teaches us, shows us
categories that we then can place life and its experiences into…
we don’t begin with categories, we begin with experience and by
experience we build our categories……. we learn, which is experience,
how to create our categories………
the mind is very active, which is how it builds its categories………
the body and mind together, for mind need body and the body needs mind, in
order to understand it place in the universe and who we are to be…….
the mind does the understanding and the body does the experiences……
and we build our categories up, day by day, experience by experience…….
but how are we to live? that understanding comes from experience…
we see from our experience, how we are to live… and what is our place in
the universe…….
the problem of existence.
is answered by our understanding of experiences……
Kropotkin