Getting back to our study, we observe that all knowledge and
pursuit aim at improvement. We also realize how well humans work with each
other determines if something good can come out of their lives. Everyone great
and small agree that we ultimately want to be happy and that is the goal of
everything we do. The problem is that everyone describes happiness differently.
Common people think it is something plain like money, pleasure or influence.
Their definition varies according to what they need. A sick person will only
want health and the poor would say that wealth would make them happy. Those who
are ignorant will admire someone of more knowledge then themselves. Some say
there is a common, superior good that all others point to. Others say there is
a perfect good within us that produces the good in everything. There are many
opinions on this and we will examine only those that are viable and aren't prone to speculation.
We get truth from two directions. First there are things
outside of ourselves that are definite and that we are yet to learn. Second
there are things we have already learned and experiences we draw from that give
us better understanding of what we encounter. Therefore knowledge has two faces, truths
we are convinced of and truth that is definite. Obviously we want them as close
together as possible. This takes a good education and experience. To start
discussing politics, a person first needs to have taken the time to learn and
have been brought up well. That way it is easy to skip over details because
what is definite is already known. Those
who lack expertise have to trust those who have it. To inexperienced people who
assume they are knowledgeable and ignore those who really are, studying politics
is difficult.
We have digressed again but will continue with our discussion
about happiness on the next post.
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