One of the hardest things in this world is to be faithful in defending the truth in objective or impartial perspective. On the other hand, this can be justified on the basis of human identity which bases on subjectivity rather than objectivity, in addition to the reality of our present world in which people give more value the Power of having than the Power of being.
We have feelings, interests, desires, and in most cases these elements are more subjective rather than objective. However, although we most inclined on the subjective reality hardly do understand our features that built our individuality, we hardly know ourselves in expected sense. Nevertheless, it is also very difficult for us to fight for realization of good actions that intend to ensure our well being, though we always like to be seen as good people, intelligent, wise, to be loved in general we do enjoy being praised. But the most interesting thing is that we hardly recognize the intelligence and wisdom of others, we do put down brothers, we judge our brothers, criticize, but we rarely talk about ourselves, this means we criticize other without self-criticize and we also judge other without self-judging and as a result we do suffer a lack of self-knowledge or the knowledge of ourselves as well.
Today's world is constitutes the juncture of technological advances, and the originality of the inventors, artists, thinkers are the best things that draws attention to society, most people are much concerned with present and the future life, the past can be referred to only if there is an issue or idea that can give a satisfactory answer the difficulties of the actual world. People are most concerned with achieving a model of original thinking that can answer the problems experienced by many people in this globalized world. It is also true to say that there is a clear inclination of individuals in the material world, satisfaction of pleasure and comfortability or convenience. However, there also those who are most focused on valuing human life, they reveal this spirit by showing a great interest in search for the solutions for the problems that threaten the world in general. Again they are the people who do recognize that in life when we fight for being objective, realistic and faithful in defense of truth and justice; we can easily become best and true protectors of human life through moral values that guarantee peace and harmony within our societies. And the more we force ourselves to be true, realistic and objective we are easily running the better chance of becoming unique in the way of thinking and expression of our thoughts. One of the most feared and rejected ideologies nowadays is fundamentalism, but by looking at it on the bases of my critical point of view, I do understand that nobody is completely against fundamentalism. It is true that many people are most concerned with present and future life, but they find also a need of looking the past, but in the sense of living the past because the aim is not to repeat the history but updating our way of living taking the as reference when there is a need for answering our actual problems which we are facing within our societies. As we can see there are many products of technology that have their references in the history, so from development of technology and evolution of humanity they are always becoming more sophisticated. In this case, fundamentalists will not be in contradiction with the vision of modern societies if they have a conviction of holding the thoughts or ideas that based on their credibility that can answer the problems and difficulties which people are facing in today’s world. Thus, the fundamentalists on bases of their convictions must find fundamentalistic thoughts which are authentic and reasonable for providing satisfactory answers to the problems that humanity is facing. And those answers must not intend to introduce fundamentalist principle nor repeating the historical reality, but to authenticate or dignify the reality of the current world.
Fundamentalism is rejected because the world today is fight for the scope of pure freedom. Many countries choose to follow politically democratic principles as a starting point for obtaining the true freedom. However, the concern could not be in the range of pure freedom, because to talk of a pure freedom is to speak of liberty without law or rules, and if so the world will run a risk of becoming the ground of success for the powerful and strong people , and hell for the poor and weak. Our challenge for the realization of pure liberty is leading us to the realization of debauchery rather than the real freedom, which is within our expectations. In this case we are called to take a critical view about our interests. For us in order to live the freedom in its expected context we should have an awareness of being patient and tolerant, that because we're in a society where there are many people with different partialities or interests well. So if we want to live our freedom in its expected sense, we should always bear in mind that our freedom is limited by norms and rules that guide the people within our society, that means if we are acting on the bases of our liberty we have also to recognize the rights and the freedom of others who are part of our society. In this case, any time that we want to exercise our freedom we must also remember the limits of our freedom so that others can also exercise their freedom. And the existence of rules and laws within our societies makes the freedom to be experienced under specific boundaries. It is true to hold that not all laws promote justice but in most cases favors the presence of peace and harmony. The trouble is that many people when they speak of freedom forget that the so-called freedom must be exercised on the basis of human reality, this means that I can not act as a monster, in order to justify that I'm free or I'm exercising my freedom. Let everything to be done in its expected sense that means human freedom has to exercised under rational principles as well as human values and the freedom or liberty of animal irrational beings has be also exercised under irrational rules or norms because that is a part of their nature. So what is meant to be human must always remain as human and it has to be dealt as human and what is mean to be for irrational beings leave it to remain as irrational. Our freedom must respect our human nature. In this case, when we want to live our freedom we must take into account respect all human values, and thus we can easily avoid falling into debauchery or being slaves of freedom.
One of the concerns of the world today is the issue of prejudice; many sing this expression as the means of seeking to prevent ourselves from being judged on the bases of our appearances. But in fact this problem can only be eliminated on the basis of personal conviction of analyzing things on the bases of liberal and realistic views. This was one of the issues that gave a great challenge to phenomenologist philosophers. They advised people to describe or talk about the reality of things as they are, and not as they appear according to our point of view. However, this problem is difficult to be solved from my point of view, because it is very difficult to analyze or make an observation of something without having a reflection on our own experience. If I was bitten by the snake every kind of snake that I find in the course of my life I can easily remember that snake which had bitten me five years ago. And on the other hand, we have a feeling that I can consider as intuitional which normal use to arise when we meet new people or experiencing new things. Sometimes we meet people who display a reality of being good to us and we easily open our hearts to them, while others hate by their appearances and not because they done something wrong to us, but rather under our intuitional feelings which even ourselves cannot explain it is root and it is normal for all human beings. What’s more when we try to analyze deeply we find that we did not plan to hate such people, but it form intuitional feeling of hate that rose automatically against such people when we met them for the first time. In connection with this John Powell points out that for example, if I see you coming towards me and I perceive you in my mind's eye as a dear friend, warm feelings will come over me, the smile will light up my face. I will reach out to shake your hand or to embrace you. However, if I see you approaching me, and I perceive you as hostile, intent on robbing or hurting me, my physical, emotional, and behavioral reactions will be just the opposite. It all depends on how I see or perceive you . As we can see from the Powell’s point of view which displays a true reality which, we live and experience in our daily life. In this case, someone before talking about the problem of biasness or prejudice as well he must first seek to understand his own vision and his daily feelings as well as his own authentic reality in relation to the issue of prejudice or biasness. Because if we are analyzing carefully critical context we can easily discover that every human being in its normal condition is biased or prejudiced. Of course, in many cases we pretend that we are not, but only that group is the one of the biased or prejudiced people; we say this because we normally like to be seeing as wise, good people in general we like to be praised. I remember the story of a priest who was working in India, he was promoting the rights of women and advised and telling them they were free to express their positions ahead of their spouses, so they should not allow to be dominated by their husbands, but women themselves were against the hint of a priest simply, because it was not within the merit for them to act in such a way before their husbands mainly in relation to their culture. That is to say before we act we must seek to know how act and defining the reality of environment in connection to way which we intend act in that specific place, so that it can give or provide satisfactory answers depending on the needs of that particular society. Sometimes we have praiseworthy initiatives but not suitable for that particular environment. However, when we try to be careful about the environment so that our actions will not contradict the reality and demands of a given place we are in the world of prejudice because we are anticipating that they will not be pleased with our way of acting. In short we are called to predict the need and reality of environment, because human reality is not static but it is dynamic, if kissing is normal and a part of culture in my country, elsewhere it can be seeing as a strange act, in this case we are called to understand the reality of environment before acting. Let's define our own being before we worry about defining the reality or authenticity of others, because after defining our own human authenticity on the bases of our own experience or reality as well, we can easily show others the true path towards realization of human authenticity on the basis of our own experience.
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