Monday, April 27, 2009

This I believe.



I believe in Truth. I believe that It is objective and manifest and available to all who seek It. I believe that it is accessible to the human mind by way of reason, not that Truth is bound by reason, but the human mind being an engine of reason is bound by reason and thus must use this path to reach Truth.
I believe in moral absolutes, as they are the offspring and hand maiden of reason, our guide to Truth. And like Truth Itself, they are both validated by reason and objective. For any morality that is based on subjective opinion is not morality at all but merely an aesthetic preference - like preferring blue to red.
I believe in the primacy of consciences and the mind as the foundational principle of all ontology. For even the proposition “external reality” must, like all other propositions, be filed in the mind and thus is dependent on it. It is the mind alone that has true being. Those things that are perceived by the mind but lack any conciseness of their own have only contingent being lent them by the being that perceives them. To be is to perceived, for only a mind can say with meaning “I am”.
And it is only through these principles of Truth, conciseness and morals that I can say of anything, This I believe.