Philosophy - A Perennial View ?

I felt that the most interesting portion of this reading was the fact that this term "perennial Philosophy" kept coming up. Perennial can mean lasting a lifetime, or having an extended life, it is amusing to me that the writer would describe a "perennial" Philosophy, which would mean that in his view there is a philosophy that has been lasting throughout a lifetime or several lifetimes. I would have to agree with the "idea" of a generic umbrella like philosophy that has been passed down from generation to generation, a "perennial" philosophy of course I feel could change and alter in its intricacies but maintain its general "focus". I wonder if our Philosophic pursuits are as flawed as the reading points out science can be by taking the analysis of things to the point where they just become objects....like our pursuit of something more is so broken down to its very bare bones essence that it is laid out like an object or goal. Do we ponder and wonder to know or is it to break things down to the point where they cease to be whole and instead become pieces shattered on the solidity of our philosophical pursuits? I don't know.

Therefore I ask not to dissemble the whole, but to make it clear, in making it clear, however am I breaking it down? The Perennial Philosophy of life. "Why am I here?, What Is My Purpose?, Is there a Point? and if so WHY?" The very beginning of the most basic philosophy is questioning everything, like a toddler who has just learned to ask why and persists with it until the parent finally says irritably or resignedly "I dont know" or "It Just Is" . I felt that the reading was correct in pointing out that Science is and isn't the perfect model for truth .

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Another point that stuck with me was the acceptance of "evil" or Natural Evil, Basic Evil, Primitive Evil, Evil in essence or however you want to break it down. I have to agree with the idea and points made about evil , however , I feel that it is an inaccurate boxed view of evil. Conceptually, we as humans decide typically that evil is anything that is different from the accepted view of the majority. Evil could be a person who writes with their left hand, Evil could be someone of a different religion or race, Evil could be an animal that we do not understand or looks foreign and alien to us. Evil is a coping device for the "wrongs" in the world. Events occur and the results of said events are not by their very cause evil, it is a concept we put to it. I feel like we diverged from the original idea of complementary elements in the world, male and female for example, instead we very aggressively force separation and conflict between things and say they are opposites, or at war, such as good and evil, such as water and fire. The article points out that evil is quite possibly a part of good. Like shadows are a part of light, and potentially vice versa. I am currently writing a story called "What the Other Sees " and it is in essence my attempt to understand the precepts of good and evil as opposing forces of the same thing. The Main character is portrayed as being "good" however, he has the "curse" of having an alternate personality that is portrayed as Evil. In this storyline I try to assess the perceptual concept that evil is perceived and purely the way we think about it as matter of perception.

I think that there is no good and no evil, in terms of the way things are in the world , I feel like they are just different parts of a singular force, life perhaps? I don't know, but in the event of my own perception of good and evil I can not deny the fact that even with this idea I still hold reservations about things, and my own ideas of things that are good and things that are bad, but I try to understand them from the view point that the events or things that are different are not in and of themselves evil or bad, I, and or Society just don't like them. And to this I can only shrug my shoulders, and continue to move and think, Or can I? Who knows !?

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