Thursday, September 27, 2012

Unexamined Life

"The unexamined life is not worth living." So what makes life worth living? Is it finding truth or is only the search for it what matters? If this quote is wrong, should we still search for the truth knowing this is not it? Is truth just what we believe to be true or what all the facts point to? Do we even know if facts are indeed true unless we were at the exact event? Even if we were at the event, do our eyes deceive us? How do we know we aren't in a lucid dream from a higher dimensional multiverse, unable to wake because are view of the truth has been twisted by a brain that has to be even greater and more complex than the one we believe to have right now? I think Richard Dawkins puts it best when he says there will always be things in the universe that will be unprovable but that doesn't make them true. You can't disprove unicorns but that doesn't make them true. I think Dawkins is like the modern day Socrates. He basically wants people to question their beliefs mainly in god and creationism through books and debates. He says very explicitly that he doesn't care about what you believe he just cares passionately about the truth and we must take all the evidence we find to point us to the best possible conclusions because evidence is the only thing we should rely on.

1 comment:

  1. I like your use of questions because they let the reader doubt their own responses. And although at some points it's unclear, I think you're ultimate conclusion is that we should all question the truths of our lives and use evidence as meaning.

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