Survive the determinism in man (chapter two)

Chapter two

              

                       Metaphysical incline

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here are some basic facts about human beings that we can not ignore and that is being mystical. The view that mystic believes are plain illusion is absolutely incorrect. Albeit there might be some mystical belief that are false claim but that does not mean all those that belong to this school of thought base their claim on fictitious account they are incline in this mystical belief because they are metaphysically persuade to their own world of view which give them the social power that generate into them being different from other people which in turn speaks volume of those who belong to this school of thought to project beyond what they are capable of achieving, is just like the different between a rich man and a poor man, a rich man is able to grasp its opportunity and sees advantage in everything he does but a poor man is quick to retire and give up is will to be successful. This is what is different between a man that is metaphysically inclining and just a man. The man that is able to grasp what is beyond him is determine by his mystical belief system, in other word he actualize this not by his own will, but what can be describe as the utmost confidentiality of the spiritual abode, though some may argue that when a man assume this status then his not an ordinary man, many can even went on to claim that they are witches or wizard. There is no need to cast doubt on such people they are just different in a way that many people can not understand, what we need to do is to raise question in our mind as to how man like us can be unique and successful, this is what white people do when they discover such intelligent persons, scientifically they can be tested in order to ascertain there level of sensibility how it outweigh other persons reason. They can be placed under observations for sometime until they are able to discover the outcome of their experiment. Nonetheless we can not underestimate the power of their gift, is a gift because not everybody can possess it otherwise we all be equal, hence the inequality in life is as a result of deterministic feature in some that tend to produce and make them to be superior over us. These processes of change in man can of course take another dimension in a negative manner people sometime under the pretense of being unique can manipulate other people to reason the same way they do for instance in Germany under the leadership of a notorious dictator Adolf Hitler who manipulate the German Nazi’s to reason with him in destroying the whole of Jews in Germany during this period millions of Jew are killed with the Nazi’s led by Hitler showing no felling of remorse also in another incident Hitler refuse to shook hand with Jessie Owen the first black man to win an Olympic 100m race simply because he is of different colour, not only Hitler is callous of this attitude as many white in 17^th century to twentieth century are culprit of various atrocity against blacks, but thanks to black activist and most especially rev., martin Luther king jnr. Who had a dream that one day there will be no color discrimination, in his word he says “I have a dream that my four little children will leave in a nation where they will not be judged by their color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Thanks to these intellectual like William Dubois, martin Luther king jnr, Malcolm x  who in their power of intellect and wisdom whose deterministic potential have help freed black from their ignorant and captivity by the white and above all to express and excel themselves in their various endeavors. Having said all that how can we ascertain that indeed these intellectual mention above are different from us, well they are because they took the step many of us would rather not have taking and that makes them different, if someone like martin Luther king can mobilize the most oppressed and suppressed group in the USA there is no for a lay man in the street not to do the same, though one can argue that king was able to do that because he was the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery Alabama, where he led a first mass civil rights movement in US history in 1955 after Rosa Parks a black lady violated bus segregation law¹. King was able to form this association because of his terrific speech that encourage other blacks to reason with him to achieve their goal of desegregation of the city buses, there should be no reason whatsoever for others not to do it but unfortunately man are born equal, some of us maybe because of our influence in perhaps some certain object or deities that makes one to think in an absolute manner for instance Luther was influence by God. Martin Luther king jnr belief that God created man in his own image and as such God order man to follow his tenet of love thy neighbor as you love your self, patience, freedom, and love these tenet is absolutely what king put together to fight the oppressor coming from the white, king assert that:

 We have no alternative but to protest for                  many years we have shown an amazing patience. We have sometimes given our white brothers the feeling that we like the way we were being treated. But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice².

This utterance by king is contrary to what some  

Philosophers like Nietzsche and niccolo di bernado

Machiavelli belief, they both argue that religion makes man

Weak because they preach patience, mercy, humility,

Forgiveness, etc. from the a posteriori of king assertion to

Machiavelli conceptions of religion bring us to a familiar territory and that is the incompatibility of philosophy and religion. Over the years so many people have criticize philosophy due to their ignorant they claim philosophy or even philosophers are here to destroy religion and their understanding of things. They also allege that philosophers are no good, base on this, their  reflection to them (philosophers) is that they are all sinners and non- believers. But what many people don’t know is that some religious acclaim person has actually gone through philosophy before they attain their religious status. Some even study philosophy to try and make a balance between the two as it was done by the medieval philosophers and those that belong to the scholastic school of thought. Among the medieval philosophers Averroes was the one that make a significant compatibility between religion and philosophy with his theory of double truth, in it Averroes declare that both the doctrine of philosophy and religion (Islam)  are true, each in its own way³. He stated that the truth formulated in technical and scientific term in philosophy are express allegorically in theology for the simple minded person⁴, in other words what the Koran say is true in religion and what the philosopher say is true in philosophy. In all we can conclude that Averroes attempt to reconcile the two position in his double truth theory which created an atmosphere of contentment i.e. whatever position we take either the position of philosophy, religion, science or technology all amount to the same truth, therefore to some extent we can uphold that religion which put God at the highest hierarchy determine what a man should be, philosophy on the other hand encompass all deterministic features that control our life, be it our reasoning, knowledge, principle, idea, credence, certainty  or God  whichever man chooses is what the philosopher believe decide that particular man.

References

1.   E.K. Ogundowole, Concerning self – retrieval of the self: Problems of Retrieving African primordial Universe of Being, Akoka, correct counsels Ltd, 2005. p, 240.

2.  Ibid, p.241

3.  J.I. Omoregbe, A simplified History of Western Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, vol. 1, Ikeja, joja press Ltd, 1991, p.125      

4. Ibid