The Beginning of Philosophy

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. The beginning of philosophy is simply whatever we encounter in our life. In my context, it is whatever I have at the beginning of the philosophical act. To be precise, it is what I know, but of course this is not the true beginning of my act of philosophy. There has been numerous philosophical acts from many years ago. This is however a renewal within my philosophical act, an attempt to canonize writings into an canonical system of philosophy.

In my case, there are many things that I know, but it is good to attempt to formalize and articulate that knowledge into a good form of language, a good text. For while I know, by writing I may discover even more and result in greater understanding of what I possess. My knowledge is centralized into one Existence, that is God. Most things I know are related to God in one way or another and has been reduced into simply God. As such, I may use a theocentric approach with philosophy but unfortunately God is not self-evident. By that problem, I must go more basic than God, and only then bridge up back to God.

As such, I see that a fitting beginning for philosophy is not to ask what it is, but ask what is it for. Philosophy’s purpose is to make men happy or good. I recognize that we all desire goodness which we perceive as happiness. The distinction between goodness and happiness is that goodness is the objective aspect of happiness while happiness is the perceptive or subjective aspect of goodness. How do we know that the purpose of philosophy is happiness? We know because in consequence of that desire of goodness, every act of humanity is in the direction of goodness. Whether we succeed or not is a different matter.

How does philosophy aim for goodness? We must first understand what philosophy is. Philosophy is directed towards goodness because philosophy is precisely the study of goodness. Therefore, philosophy provides us with the knowledge necessary to attain goodness. As I recognize and observe that in this world, knowledge of reality is necessary to attain that reality, without knowledge there is no action. This aspect of philosophy is called ethics. However, before we can even reach for goodness, we must first ask what it is and how do we even know it. The study of what goodness is is called metaphysics and how do we know goodness is epistemology. All these branches or aspects of philosophy is important as they all reveal aspects of goodness which we need to reach it.

If we have known the nature of philosophy, it seems that we can simply do it. However, it is not that easy or simple. As while I recognize that I have made good arguments and texts in the past, they are not official or canonical texts. This means they are not published either. At least, they are not philosophically canonical, only in general. What I currently possess are preconceptions and past arguments which I can certainly use but I cannot refer to them in an official canonical way. Instead I must use them in an inofficial way, extracting truths from them as I go and then making them into official and canonical texts.

For that reason, I declare 2 plans for the future. My first plan is to pursue a philosophical dictionary, in other words a canonical system of language for the sake of my philosophical system. My second plan, which comes logically after but temporally prior to the first plan, is to pursue a philosophical system consisting in various canonical texts of philosophy. I would like to remind us all that my supreme knowledge is of God, as such the final aim of this philosophical system is in the end God. The reasoning for that shall be made known in time. 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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