November 10, 2018 Saturday
Bedtime Story
Accepting the Paradox of Absurd
Spiritualism-inclined brains always carry
along their fuzzy beliefs in their head which is yet another means of evading
the paradox of absurd and perhaps a great solace for them in having to avoid
viewing the world the way it is.
Yet through his writings it was clear that Nikos
Kazantzakis certainly was not able to intellectually digest a lot of core
beliefs of the Orthodox Church.
For raising such questions against it the
Orthodox Church refused his body to be buried in their cemetery.
His epitaph in the city of Heraklion in the
island of Crete read as follows:
“I hope for nothing.
I fear nothing.
I am free”.
This is what I meant by the freedom
achieved when one has no hope.
So then I proposed two “benefits” of
accepting the paradox of absurd: one being freedom in a very relative sense and
the other being rejection of hope which to many would hardly sound like an
advantage.
But then the question will always be raised
as Dostoevsky did - From whence will the moral values come from to the man who
does not accept the religious route to salvation?
This one had left me stumped for a long
long time.
It is true that an atheist would have no
morality in principle and thus he would be an amoral person.
Just to be clear, an amoral person need not
necessary be an immoral person as he will still desist from doing things that
are deemed criminal by law.
He would use his sapience judiciously to
act and may even commit immoral activity if need be or so the situation
justifies to him.
What guides such brains are not moral
values but their own sense of integrity that implies honesty with one’s self
and a kind of consistency with one’s actions.
It is actually hard to distinguish a person
of integrity from a person of high moral values though the true meaning of the
word integrity comes out if you consider it as the opposite of hypocrisy.
An hypocrite person may also be a moral
person but the difference is that a person of integrity will have honesty and
consistency of character such that he will try to be internally consistent with
the values that he holds (and not what society at large have decided).
If he comes to realize that he holds
conflicting values and commits to conflicting actions he will not only accept
the discrepancy and but alter his beliefs and world views and change his
actions accordingly.
Integrity perhaps is the path to wisdom.
Such a person has an internally consistent
framework of principles (and not moral values) that adheres to some sound
axioms that he has built his whole character upon.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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