Philosophy is Important and Fundamental (Intro to Philosophy Coursera Week 1)

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. A continuation of the commentary on Week 1 of Introduction to Philosophy from Coursera. There is a sense in which philosophy is not fundamental and there is a sense in which it is truly fundamental. First, we must understand what fundamental means. Fundamental means basic, that something serves as the basis of something else. This can be translated to the concept of necessity in a certain way. However, the best analogy so far is as in the foundations of a building.

However, when we say philosophy is fundamental, we must ask, fundamental to what? If we say it is fundamental to reality, that is not true, God is fundamental to reality, but not philosophy necessarily. If we say it is fundamental to human existence, that may be true and may not be true. In the way it is not true, a person typically does not need to study deep philosophy to live well or even to be saved. Yet a person who is saved without the practice of philosophy is most usually someone who has already been in the Faith since the beginning. A person who seeks to convert must practice some sufficient amount of philosophy to enter the Faith.

Yet since the human race in general was once outside of the Faith or more accurately left the Faith and had to reenter the Faith, then they had to practice philosophy as a common race to reenter the Faith. It is then Tradition of Natural Revelation known as philosophy which aids mankind in accepting the true Faith and thus being able to reach their true Goodness that is God alone. It is by that Tradition of Revelation as well that humanity has reached the current level of progress also the ease of access towards God through the Church. Therefore, in the greater picture, philosophy is fundamental to the eternal goodness of mankind.

Philosophy is also fundamental in the sense that below anything there is always some philosophy lurking around. In the end of all the foundational chains, there is a single foundation to everything above it, and this is the core of philosophy, that is God. So you can always ask further about the reasons of anything until it reaches their final sufficient reason, either God or an agent with free will, which they themselves still owe their existence to God.

From the idea that philosophy is fundamental to human goodness, we derive the idea that philosophy is important to human goodness. In particular, philosophy might not be necessary for all individuals to reach God, but in general, man cannot receive Supernatural Revelation without first making a stairway through Natural Revelation. Therefore, philosophy is clearly important to human goodness and that is their attainment of God. However, philosophy is not absolutely important in a universal manner. What I mean is, there is some philosophy which is only important for some people and not for every person. However, most of philosophy and the core of philosophy is certainly important for everyone as it has been defined, it studies the truths important to human existence and all of reality, and that it studies the right way of thinking. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.

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