Preparatory Text 7

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. I no longer possess the truth. Therefore, I am resorting back to truth seeking until I die. For I possess no certainty regardings the truth of my God and the Faith. I possess no certainty about the Catholic truths, if they are truly truths, and so I must pack up and be on the run for God and His Truth. I will first record the truths that I do possess in case I suffer memory loss. Now that is done, it is time to begin a reinvestigation into the truths of God and the world.

There are various questions that needs to be answered. That is whether Christ is God or not, and whether the Catholic Church is the true Church of Christ or not. For the truth of Christianity and Catholicism is at stake. Yet I must declare first that my allegiance to the Church seated in Rome is a matter of supernatural Faith. Therefore, while my mind may be shaken, my volition remains in alignment with Rome and her Bishop. As such, I submit to my local bishop, and to the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, and if I must recant my heretical tendencies, then I shall cease at once. As such, my Catholic Faith is a matter of presuppositional Faith.

So, if the truth that I discover leads me to be in opposition against Christ’s Body as established in Rome, then I pray to God that whatever I discovered was never true in the first place and that I have been thoroughly mistaken. Yet I must begin with the first ideas of philosophy first before I can ever delve into historical theology and truths. Those ideas described in philosophy has been proven once and for all. So I need only continue through the various ideas of philosophy as presented to me by God through the world.

Presupposition of Goodness

What is goodness? Goodness is the object which causes happiness within a morally aware being. Yet, all aware beings are moral for even if they are at complete neutrality, relative to suffering it is happiness and relative to happiness it is suffering, therefore the moral awareness is necessary for all awareness. The moral being only prescribes the capacity of possessing moral perceptions, and not necessarily the orientation of the moral being towards any direction, suffering or happiness, goodness or evil. Yet for the moral being which exists necessarily possesses existence, it possesses goodness. Therefore, the moral being which aims towards evil necessarily aims towards its own self-destruction.

It is the will of God that all moral beings are to aim for the perfected union between themselves and God as their supreme goodness. However, that moral beings are directed towards goodness seems to be something ingrained within their design as God infuses it upon them. For the logical law of entailment only dictates that whosoever desires evil desires non-existence and thus their own destruction. However, it does not dictate that they cannot desire evil. For it is a revealed truth that all moral beings aim toward goodness by the will of God, then when moral beings do choose evil, it is never because they truly desire evil, but they see some sort of goodness in evil, which do exist but in an inferior form to God Himself.

All action are most meaningful in relationship to God. All actions must be measured upon the basis of how they bring the moral being closer or further from God. Therefore there is only 2 directions upon any action which that action can take. The action which separates the moral being from God, and the action which unites the moral being to God. This is the evaluation of any action in the moral standpoint. The evaluation of the morality of moral beings depend on their choice, that is their real choice of action, which is determined by both the mental act and the material act. That being which makes the choice of God is good, and that which makes the choice of hell is evil.

There is another way to describe the morality of moral beings, that is whether they do succeed in attaining goodness, or whether they fail in attaining goodness. They who attain goodness for themselves are good, and they who fail are evil. A question may arise, whatever happened to those who made the correct choice but fail in the end? Then there is a faulty disconnect between the choice and the reality which happens. It is necessary that they who fail God actually chose to reject God. Now God, possessing all goodness which is possible, and being infinitely simple, must be all those goodness, He is therefore Goodness Himself.

Examination of the Intellect

When the human being perceives an object, they retain information of that object, either universally or in particular, and stores it in memory. Memory is simply the capacity of moral beings to retain what they have perceived. Therefore, the object of perception inhabits both its regular location and also the memory of the moral being. However, since the knowledge of moral beings persist as long as they exist, so the objects of perception are captured within the knowledge of moral beings in a permanent state. It is written before that the memory of human beings are not perfect, rather we have a moderate recollection of objects. When brought up before the intellect, the man perceives a less clear version of the object.

The operation of the intellect is as follows. The intellect extracts the object brought up from memory and begins the processing of that object to be turned into another object of intellect. The end result of the intellectual object is then made real outside of the intellect and is used as basis of an action. Yet sometimes the perception of the intellectual object is itself the goal of the intellectual act, and even so acts of the intellect remain real actions. Any operation of the intellect is often called thinking. This results in the perception of thoughts, which are really moderate perception of the objects retained, even when the objects may have perished in the outside world.

Examination on the Right Way of Thinking

Whether the right way of thinking exists or not. What is the right way of thinking? I hereby interpret the right way of thinking as the way of thinking which is good. Now, we have ascertained that all actions are good in reference to God. Therefore, the right way of thinking, or precisely the correct intellectual act is the thinking in reference to God. The question is then how do we think in such a way that we are made closer to God? There are 2 ways, first we think of God Himself and that thinking of God becomes the end goal. The second way is we think of an extramental action which leads us to God, and so we use that thinking as the basis of a good action.

Now in so far philosophy is about the study of the right way of thinking, it is then the question of how do we think about God or for God. So philosophy is the intellectual activity of determining the correct thought of God (orthodoxy) and the correct activity of God (orthopraxis). This is the only true definition of philosophy as all other forms of philosophy break away from God and so is automatically evil as they voluntarily reject God. The only correct philosophy is the philosophy of God, any other philosophy is rejected by virtue of the truth of God.

Examination on the Relationship between Philosophy and Science

As philosophy is chiefly the study of God and the Way to God, then there is a rightly ordered form of the handmaiden of philosophy and that is science. The role of science is simply to inform us on the nature of this world relative to itself and its components such that we understand how to rightly order this world towards God. For our actions concern ourselves and other humans such that we ought to understand the world to be able to properly order our actions to God. By understanding the good state of man from a scientific perspective, that is the precision of goodness, we may aim to reach that good state in reference to God.

Examination on the Significance of Philosophy

As philosophy is the study of God and the Way to God, then it is properly said that philosophy is highly significant for all man to study. For it is the study of their Goodness and the Way to said Goodness, that is God. In theistic ethics, the word “God” and the word “Goodness” is interchangeable. So it is important for man to study what they are aiming for and how to reach what they are aiming for. For man is required to possess awareness of God in order to reach God. Without that awareness, they shall never be able to reach what they desire of.

Examination on Argumentation

The chief method of philosophy is by argument. When we study God and the Way to God, we must understand the reasons of the truths of God. Each belief or piece of knowledge is grounded in either another belief or in a fundamental source of justification as to be our own awareness. Within an argument, the belief being produced is called a conclusion, the beliefs producing the conclusion are called premises. A conclusion is true if 2 conditions are met, the premises are true and that the order of relationships between the premises are correct such that they necessitate the truth of the conclusion.

For in this life, we do not see God face to face, rather we see Him indirectly by the veil of reason. Therefore, to attain awareness of God, we ought to reason to His Existence from the facts that be. Certain simple truths can lead us to an understanding that God exists. When these simple truths are understood in a unison by means of the intellectual act, we reach the truth that God exists. The intellect perceives certain universal truths and synthesizes them into the conclusion that God exists. So argumentation is a way of reasoning to certain truths of God when it is impossible to perceive such truths directly.

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