Knowledge: A Basis of Will or Reason?

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

© 2019 by SSRG - IJHSS Journal

Volume 6 Issue 4

Year of Publication : 2019

Authors : Patrick Neil M. Santiago

10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V6I4P105

How to Cite?

Patrick Neil M. Santiago, "Knowledge: A Basis of Will or Reason?," SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 6,  no. 4, pp. 38-45, 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V6I4P105

Abstract:

Scholars and many great thinkers attempt to reveal the deep things about knowledge but are failed and remained unsearchable as it is viewed as skeptical. Through vulnerability, knowledge becomes a tool to fulfill selfish desires. Absurdity came into place to someone who desperately urged to achieve absolute truth. This paper investigates the nature of human knowledge and how the mind works, interprets and processes towards will. This paper further discusses the consciousness and unconsciousness of man to understand the rational and irrational state of mind. It also explains where the initiative of a person should be founded; the endeavors of man in continuous search for truth and possession of knowledge; and the causes of man’s absurdity. The findings shed light that the mind will always have a potent faculty over reason to pursue will.

Keywords:

absurdity, knowledge, reason, self, will.

References:

[1] Cooper, John M., Edited, Plato: Complete Works, Indianapolis, IN Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1997.
[2] Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects, Floating Press. 2009.
[3] Descartes, René. Philosophical Essay and Correspondence, ed., with intro. Roger Ariew, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 2000.
[4] Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. and ed. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
[5] Critical Analysis. https://www2.southeastern.edu/Acade mics/Faculty/elejeune/critique.htm.
[6] Aguas, Jove Jim S., St. Tomas and Critical Thinking, Manila: UST Graduate School, 2005.
[7] Bynner, Witter. trans., The Way of Life: According to Lao Tzu, New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 1994.
[8] Jung, Carl G., The Undiscovered Self, trans. from German by R.F.C. Hull, New York: A Division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1957, 1958.
[9] Santiago, Patrick Neil M., “On the Basis of Love: A Critical Analysis”. American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research 3, no. 7 (2019): 34-40.
[10] Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses, ed. with an intro. by Susan Dunn, New York: Yale University Press, 2002.
[11] Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy, trans. by Clifton P. Fadiman, New York: Dover Publication, Inc., 1995.
[12] Greenwald, Harold. ed., with intro. and notes, Great Cases in Psychoanalysis, New York: Ballantine Books, Inc, 1959.
[13] Cornford, Francis MacDonald. trans. with intro. and notes, The Republic of Plato, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
[14] Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. with an intro. by R. J. Hollingdale, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1961, 1969.
[15] Bolaños, Paolo A., On Affirmation and Becoming: A Deleuzian Introduction to Nietzsche’s Ethics and Ontology, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
[16] Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964.
[17] Jie Wang, Xia Chen, Xiao Jiang Chen and Chen Ling Zhang,(2017). The Attitude and Cognition of Higher Vocational Students to Bilingual Teaching in Zoology. SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 4(5), 58-63.