January 6, 2009

  • Introductions

    Hello!

    My name is Rob, and I am interested in practically everything there is. And so I intend to write as much as I can about as many things as I can, in the hopes that my friends and family will not discover this blog.

    My blog name is just something I came up with on the fly. I love oxymorons and this one seemed to ring true for me in particular. A Joyful Cynic is certainly something one doesn't find often...typically, one is either joyful, or one is a cynic, because to be one would normally offset the other. I like to think of myself as a little bit of both, however.

    And now a short post.

    Aristotle begins book 2 of Metaphysics by saying this:

    "The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, we do not collectively fail, but every one says something true about the nature of things, and while individually we contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this respect it must be easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth and not the particular part we aim at shows the difficulty of it. "

    In other words, truth is objective, truth is there for human beings to discover. It is not nailed down to one particular group of people. I myself am a Christian, but for me to declare that the only truth that exists in the world is found in the Bible would be a silly thing to say. I for one believe that anyone who speaks truth speaks the word of God, and therefore Aristotle was just as inspired by God as any of the writers who made it into the Bible, because he spoke truth. If one speaks or knows Truth, then one knows God, because God is by definition truth.

    Philosophy is a great help to humans in the search for truth...we all try and most of us fail to uncover very much about truth, but collectively, we can discover much more.

    Those are my thoughts anyway.. I have to run now. Have a good day, Xangans!

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