Fifth Aphorisms

I

Philosophy begins with the distinction of Truth and Correctness.

II

Truth is the subjective understanding of the world; Correctness is the matching of the external world with internal ideas. The difference of the two is the notion of verification.

III

A world without this distinction is the world of mythology; a world without Correctness is religion; a world without Truth is science.

IV

Hence it is foolish for those who believe in God because of science; it is yet more foolish to prove God's existence.

V

Civilization begins with there is a distinction between Truth and Correctness, with emphasis on Truth; then as it decays the emphasis shifts to Correctness. Finally, Correctness will dominant the minds of Man; Man will think no more and civilization ends.

VI

Truth is Will to Power.

VII

Truth is creative and necessarily so. To understand the world we must actively impose meaning to phenomena.

VIII

Correctness, on the other hand, reverses the process - the world, through trial and error of science, limits the scope of human understanding. The verification of Correctness is a comparatively passive act.

IX

Hence, the so-called "humanities" disciplines all have to do with Truth.

X

Logical Reasoning does not lead to Truth because it is not creative. After all, where does the first premisses come from?

XI

Contemporary science, since the Industrial Revolution, attempts the blur the distinction between Truth and Correctness by using oxymoronic terms like "scientific truth" or "logical truth". The ideology of science attempts to first blur the distinctions, then place emphasis on verification and Correctness. Hence we get people quoting scientists saying that tables are made of atoms, and the universe began with a bang.

XII

That is a correct view of the world, but not true: the Truth has no need for verification - the table is made of wood, and the universe had no beginning.

XIII

The child best understood the idea of Truth without being conscious o it because every encounter with the world is new, fresh - sometimes the tables is made of glass, somtimes of wood, but never of atoms. For the child, he had to come up with his own explanations to the world, and this is how he understood the world. Mother is not 1.58m tall; she is a big, friendly giant. Her breasts are not made of muscles and skins; they are made of warm milk and a source of comfort.

XIV

The artist too is like the child: with every experience in life the artist attempts to understand the wrold, and then creatively recreate it with whatever medium available. The world is Middlemarch; the world is the Starry Night; the world is a Paradise Lost; the world is a symphony.

XV

But if Truth is subjective, then there is no absolute Truth? Everyone can believe whatever he or she wants. The postmodernist wins, that we should spell "Truth" with a small t and add an s in the end? Shall there be too many suns for the heated, restless mind? Our firmest ground has been shattered: Truth is no longer a ground. What have we got left? Must we keep on falling? Post-modernists like to fall; they think falling is fun.

XVI

But behold! We do have a ground! That ground is the dance-floor for Zarathustra! While no longer is Truth our ground; the striving for Truth is our New Ground. What contains humanity together, what makes all the versions of Truth universal is the fact that we are all striving towards it. What makes art beautiful and wonderful is not the vision itself matching with our own - No! that would be Correctness! What is wonderful is the fact that the artist is striving to present that vision, and that we too have the same notion of striving for Truth and thus recognizing the heroic effort of the artist. The Great Striving, as I shall sing it, is our ground. This is how people of all cultures, sex, age, race, etc etc can come together and appreciate the beauty of the Great Striving, the beauty of the universe!