I know I know

Our ego always asserts, " I know I know"
To say so is not wisdom but foolishness.
What will Socrates say if he is present?
"I know that I don't know" is what he will.
So, to be wise, not say , "I know I know".

MORALITY

http://binaryopposition.blogspot.kr/2016/03/what-is-good-and-bad-in-ordinary-life_26.html

When we addressed on “what is good and bad”, the question immediately surfaced in our mind is what morality is about. In the past, we find philosophers have expounded on the topic of morality in volumes, each one differing from others in the treatment of the subject in a certain way as civilization passed through time from earliest time until today.

Briefly, to say, it advises man to refrain from the act that could upset social equilibrium. It helps him to reach perfection and attain his ideal. While morality tells what the right principles of human conduct (the rectitude) should be, it tells not what to do when such principles are broken. In highest moral circumstances, “I” exits his seat and “Thou” enters and occupy the seat, and this circumstance takes birth from extreme self-abnegation. Man, then, will give up the tendency to accumulate everything towards his centre.

Although the definition the morality is found to vary across nations, circumstances, customs of certain race, and religion, the modern man knows there exists today a universal standard leaving aside those variants. Sadly, it is the both judiciary and cops who struggle to keep us moral. Hence, the elaboration of this definition falls outside the scope of this blog.

The man, who had been both pure and moral, had better control over himself and became legends of time. History remembers them for the good done to humanity. Civilization and intelligence began to grow rapidly from the moment earliest human began to set code of ethics and principles of morality, and this is a known fact.

Bibliography

(1)The Works of Herbert Spencer

(2) The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

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What is good, and bad?

What is good, and bad?

In ordinary life, happiness and misery are the the same. So are good and bad, pleasure and pain, virtue and sin, wealth and poverty, health and sickness, knowledge and ignorance, dharma and adharma, and so on; these are in the web of binary oppositions that challenge men in the inner circle of his life but the manifestation of the same thing. The same thing means, for example, the fire that helped me cooking my food yesterday gutted a building today destroying the property and a hundred lives dear to us. The same fire, which manifested as good for cooking, has manifested as bad when they caused destruction. The same fire but has two different manifestations. Hence, happiness and misery-two manifestations of the same thing- coexist, and we cannot have them separated. If someone says he is always happy, it is a word of contradiction. It is not true. Man is naturally a being of contradiction and so is the society. If you conduct a life in the outer circle (beyond the limitations of sensory organs and the limitation of reason), then it could be a world of different definition: where you become He(The Impersonal Absolute) and deathless. The people who lived in the outer circle of life could be Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and so on, who are Personal Gods or Incarnations…. These gods have replaced ancient gods( for example Greek gods or gods of violent nature) as mankind moved towards more civilized life with stringent codes for ethics. In the future( in a few thousands of years hence), the future mankind could be more civilized than we are today and hence there is a possibility that a fresh lot of new Personal Gods could arrive in the scene/worship places.

Finally, we can infer that, good and bad are the manifestations of the same thing and they co-exist in all human beings, and we cannot have them separated. In low graded life, the 'bad' stands taller, while the 'good' shorter, yet both co-exist.

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Ref books:

(1)The Complete Works of Swamy Vivekananda

(2) The Idea Must Die by John Brockman: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

Soosaiya Anthreas

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