Tuesday, April 23, 2013

God and Intuition

With every idea comes some kind of blatant assertion. You can warrant a claim with many different reasons, but eventually you reach a conclusion that is not rational. It is merely a warrantless assertion. While philosophers like Thomas Nagel have used this as a way to exploit a theory of subjectivity, the human mind seems to operate on a different level. Even with these odd, supposedly universal, assertions, there is still a gut feeling that makes people agree or disagree with certain beliefs. This implies a human intuition.

While we know this human intuition exists, it makes no sense to confine it to evolution. While evolution has enhanced our ability to think philosophically, it still hasn't managed to change our intuition. Things liek killing are intuitively bad. There is still an intuitive appeal to progress. While this theory could be butchered and mislabeled as the whims of instinct, they operate on a much higher level. Everyone has this gut feeling, but there is no knowledge of where it comes from. However, by tracing historical roots, one comes to the realization that most of these ideas of ethics stem from a religious sense of God. That means God is the true philosopher, and he dictates the human intuition, which describes what is moral and immoral when our beliefs come down to the nitty gritty assertions without rational warrant. This is more than a proof of God, however. This is also a reason why we ought to follow God. God's guidance allows us to follow what we think to be secularly true. B following God's will and allowing him to guide our life, we improve our sense of ethics and thus become better human beings.

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