Saturday, November 8, 2008

(NN) Some More Freud

"We are conscious of only a small part of our existence"

Pojman said this quote while paraphrasing Freud and his beliefs. I agree with this idea. If humans were fully conscious of our existence studies like philosophy would be unneeded because we would already understand and there would be nothing to study. Imagine though if humans did understand all there was to be understood about our existence, what would life be like. Many would be out of jobs because, ideally, with all that knowledge we would know how to end death and suffering. Would a World of all knowing humans be a utopia or would it be the opposite because we would be fully aware of the evils of humans and the World would be one big danger zone? I could go on hypothisizing the different ways the World could go if we were to be an all knowing race, but I feel this two extremes make my point clear. Although humans do not know all there is know about our existence is that necessarily a bad thing or are we meant to never know all?

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