The Pursuit of Truth and Transcendence: Exploring the Philosophies of Socrates, Augustine, and Aquinas
Fact:
Knowing things, and not in any way, but they really are. The result of knowledge will be true when it conforms to reality. The value of truth is waiting to be reached by us, but we see ourselves.
Well,
every man saved in the depths of his being the unconquerable desire to be good and do good.
Ethics:
Involves the formulation of criteria, abstract and rational, from which to assess and judge actions as good or not, suggests universal criteria from which to judge moral acts. Aristotle said that “it is what we all want.” We all want good because it benefits us. Good is relative, it is considered good and subjective, which is a serious error. The well-being depends as the (real objective, which is there) and the mode of being. And there is something that man can never cease to be, it is precisely man.
Transcendence:
The more sense it can provide to life. Transcendence refers to the verb trascender, that in two of its meanings, means “to be or go beyond something” and “extended or communicated to others, producing consequences.” However, because we have rational and spiritual life, men are somehow destined to transcend ourselves. The need and, simultaneously, the ability to go beyond the human and superhuman aspire to something is what we mean by the value of transcendence (through religion, which, when responding to this desire for transcendence, open the door to a powerful supernatural being that has been referred to as God). The acceptance of a Supreme Being that presupposes our capacity for transcendence has several implications for our lives: the recognition of the supremacy of God to man and, on the other hand, of our dependence on the Supreme Being who is perfect, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, etc.
Socrates:
“The gadfly of Athens” (weirdo). He is often regarded as the greatest scholar of his time, although he was thought to be ignorant. He was accused of neglecting the gods of the state and introducing new divinities, a reference to “daemonion” or mystical inner voice, to which Socrates often alluded to. He was also accused of corrupting the morals of youth, away from the principles of democracy and it mistook the Sophists, as teachers of the word, teaching young people to make the worse reason appear as the better reason. Three citizens: Anito, Melito and Lycon. Plato’s Apology contains the substance of Socrates’ defense at his trial, a bold claim of his life. He was sentenced to death but the sentence only managed a small majority.
Augustine of Hippo:
The historical background of the Roman Empire in recent years, crisis of empire and power arrival of Constantine (Edict of Milan).
Fact:
He argues that the truth lies in a man you exercise by comparing certain operations the spirit with which his senses and the dictates of the trial. To get to the logical truth must be passed by the operations of the mind, only through the soul of this trial can determine whether something is true or not. Therefore the real source of truth is in the soul of each person. Augustine presents the theory of light that “the truth radiates from God on the human spirit.”
Jesus of Nazareth Truth:
Jesus identified Himself as truth and bears witness through its total commitment until death on the cross for each child of God to be redeemed. But this testimony is true only comparable to God the Father as the absolute truth. Thus, Jesus proclaimed himself “the Way, the Truth and the Life.” Unlike the other characters of course, the relationship between Jesus and the truth is not search or find more or less imperfect, but of identification, because we know the Way and the goal, the same is proposed to all men only access to the truth.
Well,
would identify with the law, which consists in carrying out the will of God and his commandments. Such mandates are reduced to two: Love God above all things and your neighbor as yourself. ” Thus, the good will in a life according to what God wants and expects from their children.
Transcendence:
The utmost importance is the encounter with God. In the case of Jesus is expressed literally as being “seated at the right hand of God.” This transcendence is the ultimate meaning of life, while directed primarily to God and also as a meeting here and now if this is the Kingdom of God, and then fully in the afterlife.
Thomas Aquinas:
Well:
The human being naturally inclined, as a condition for happiness, good. Thus we see that everything we tend to live in a specific order that is their right and the same can be said of human beings as a whole: we tend to a good human beings. That it is our fulfillment as persons and implies that each of our abilities and potential to achieve is rightfully theirs: their own good.
Truth:
end or object of one of the deepest inclinations of human beings: to know. The starting point to reach the truth is reality itself, the objective being of things. It is commonly agreed that things are, with an objective reality independent of our reason. The truth is the adjustment of being and intellect.
Transcendence:
In your personal experience he always was sure of God’s existence and its proximity real. Thanks to the personal relationship, through dialogue supernatural prayer, Thomas grew up in the knowledge of who and what God is, from their Catholic faith. Its starting point is the admission that one can know God, not only faith but also for no reason. From the reason, we can say that the human soul, the spiritual being, can only come into existence by the creative action of God.