Henry H. Lindner, MD
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What do you call the act of creating and criticizing theories of the causes of things? What do you call the human effort to understand himself and the Cosmos? Science? Wrong. The archetype of modern Science is Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Theory. These are mere models of the observer’s consciousness—his sensations and measurements. They do not attempt to get beyond conscious experiences to model or explain the Cosmos itself. In Relativity and Quantum theory, the only reality is the observer's experience. Science is a truncated, emasculated version of philosophy created to allow mankind to pursue its curiosity about technical matters while protecting its religious and political dogmas from the threat of philosophy.
So what do we call our attempts to go beyond experience--our attempt to
explain the Cosmos what exists and the causes of our experiences? Religion?
Well, religions were serious attempts to explain everything, back when
they were created. Unfortunately, they are belief systems that could not
evolve with the advance of knowledge; they are fossils. What
would we call a religion if it never became dogmatic, if it grew and changed
with the advance of knowledge? What would we call a religion that didn't
make obvious errors like using animalian or human analogies to explain the
origin and nature of the Cosmos itself? What would we call a religion
that integrated all the facts and all our best theories of causes into a
unified model of the Cosmos, human nature, and human life?
There is a name for such an open-ended, natural religion: from the time of its invention by the Ionian Greeks in the 7th century BC, it has been called "philosophy". You would think that mankind would revel in this open-ended, ever improving, non-sectarian religion, but such has not been the case. In fact, philosophy has always been suppressed, reviled, belittled, and ignored. No religion has ever been so abused. It is slandered as mere unsupported belief, soft-headed mysticism, or a form of art. In our schools, it is reduced either to its history, to useless speculation about the meaning of words, or to a "dialogue" about morality. What our culture calls “philosophy” is a mere fossil, a remnant of the most powerful use of our minds.
Philosophy is the full, uninhibited use of our language-based
intelligence to criticize and create theories of the causes of all Cosmic
phenomena. Philosophy is our attempt to integrate the facts of
experience and to understand the Cosmos and ourselves.
Philosophy is the use of our minds to reach beyond our sensations and
measurements and grasp the nature of existence and the causes of all
phenomena--in every science. Philosophy uses scientific methods and
mathematics plus all the other tools of theoretical
cognition. Philosophy pays no respect to ideas that are not consistent
with the evidence and/or do not sufficiently explain the evidence.
Philosophy
is the natural religion of all mankind—our only hope for a peaceful and prosperous
future together on Earth and among the stars.
On Philosophy, Science, and the Cosmos
On
Human Life and Society
Consider
That:
We are all one species living on one planet. If we allow anyone person
or group to commit violence against any other person or group, we destroy the
moral basis of our peaceful coexistence and put everyone at risk. We must
condemn the initiation and maintenance of violence everywhere at all times,
including the covert forms of violence like slavery and occupation. We
must employ every means available to stop the perpetrator, including force if
necessary.
Human children are not born evil, they're born immature; just like puppies,
kittens, and all other animals. We should satisfy their needs and gently
guide their self-motivated development; not force them into adult forms of
thought and behavior.