Revelation vs. philosophy: faith vs. reason

Revelation vs

Revelation vs. philosophy: faith vs. reason

Revelation vs. philosophy: faith vs. reason

Revelation can be identified as belief in that a metaphysical finality that communicates its existence to humans, with belief systems, codes of morality and laws governing human actions.

Philosophy can be identified as reasoning into what is perceptible to conclude what is intelligible.

Nothing is more dangerous and more fragile and illusive than definitions and identifications, especially in abstractions and notions. But here we attempt the impossible to have an approximation of and idea logical conception of things that cannot be defined, in order to localize the field of our focus of study.

What is revealed cannot be perceived neither scientifically nor conceptually, but only a mirage image of what can be the case. The same thing applies to philo.

If the former deals with what is thought to be communicated between the metaphysical aspect and the human one, in either case we cannot identify either, for what is metaphysical and what is human! Then the second deals with the human and with the tool of reason namely the human mind. Here too we cannot identify what is the mind and what is reason. No one can tell what reason is, how does it take place, its mechanism, its origin and what does it represent and what for, especially who made it what it is?

Enigmas that lead to nothing but to utter conjecture.

But, at the surface of it and in the most artificial dimension of its perspective, nothing valid or true about it, revelation is what is assumed to be proclaimed in the scriptures of belief systems, namely religions.

The Old testament, David's Psalms, the Gospel and the Qur'an are considered by the faithful as coming from a metaphysical source. So it is a human belief system to describe mentally an extra physical communication of thoughts and ideas. On the other hand, Philosophy is the human reasoning facing the world, itself included. It is ideational reactions to the perceptible and the intelligible.

Both, at best, may deal with conceptual frameworks to make the perceptible understandable and comprehensible. Nothing is more uncertain. For objects, whether sensible or intelligible are still unknown in its presence, its origin, in its structure and in its finality, especially who put it there. If man did not then is it auto-made or is there someone who has done the job? Total impenetrable mysteries and enigmas that need still to be elaborated and unveiled.

On the most ontological superficial level revelation and philosophy may coincide or may stand in complete opposition to one another, though looking at the object. The same object (e.g. the universe) looked upon by two philosophers may lead either one of them in the opposite direction namely either belief or disbelief.

While revelation deals with the metaphysical aspect of explanation, philosophy deals with the human reasoning into explanation. Here, revelation is supposed to be extra human in origin while philosophy is purely human, for whatever human might mean.

Revelation, to be optimist reveals the divine perspective of things with regards to explanations, the universe, creation, cause, effect, life and death, dimensions of life and the finality of things. In other terms who does what, who originates and who controls and unto whom is the return of all, namely God. Philosophy, searching for truth and reality (representing wisdom as the ultimate goal), offers human explanations, and may or may not conclude the same things as revelation.

In fact it might very well go totally against the grain of revelation and in the opposite direction altogether and deny and rejectthe concept of God, as in Nietzsche, Hobbes, Sartre and Russell.

Or, indeed might go with the grain of revelation and accord harmoniously with it, as in Aristotle, Kant, Leibniz and Kant.

And we, normal human beings, like the rest of our wretched flock of the human species wonder just like all philosophers and scientists whether which way to go, whether to follow the path of revelation or that of a certain philosophy. We have the choice between revelation and philosophy.

Our problematic is to marry reason with revelation, but if the marriage is unsuccessful we have one alternative to turn in the direction of belief and faith. Those who do not have the freedom and right to. But revelation promises reward and punishment while philosophy does not, so every one of us may choose between either way, keeping his value and dignity and also suffering the consequences if the revelation is true and philosophy is not.

Whether wisdom is identifying God, then it falls then into the perspective of the two perspectives, revelation and philosophy, with the exceptions that prove the rule.

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