Quest For Certainty

Thomas Merton 's seven - story mountain, Thomas Merton, in Thomas Merton' s autobiography "pursuing certainty" autobiography "in a 7 - story mountain" explained how he is going to find life 's certainty through religion. Marton started the book by explaining the outline of his early childhood. His father is from New Zealand and his mother is an American living in France. His father and mother are artists and they can not earn a lot of money. When his parents need extra money, Merton 's father will do all kinds of work for his family to survive.

The story of the American philosophy of the 20th century is a story of a philosophy that loses its personality. In pursuit of objective certainty, many mainstream philosophers seek out philosophical theory by thinking about how ideological theories emerge from the events of the thinkers' life, so-called "erroneous biographies", so-called " I have avoided errors carefully. . This, together with a variety of other factors, leads to the separation of philosophy and life business. Philosophy is purely theoretical, abstract, ie becoming non-personalized

Dewey criticized what he called "philosophy paradox" in "pursue certainty." This is because philosophers do not understand that they are simply nominal inventive concepts. It helps solve certain problems. This leads to metaphysical and conceptual confusion. Various examples are the "ultimate existence", the belief in the "value field" of Hegelian philosopher, the logic, which is an abstraction of concrete thinking, not related to the behavior of specific thought, etc. It is from. . David L. Hildebrand summarized the questions as follows. "Perceptual negligence on specific functions including inquiries led to realist and idealist projecting broad abstract products, explanation of experience." (Hildebrand 2003)

In his article "In pursuit of certainty: building goodness", John Dewey emphasizes the social aspect of exploration in its process and results. The actual investigation starts with "uncertainty" or confusion. This confusion leads to elaboration of the essence of the problem. Next, I will make a hypothesis to solve this problem. The use of "tools" or concepts clarifies the virtual solution. Finally, test the solution on the rest to see if the desired result was obtained. As long as Dewey's inquiry theory can not be fully understood unless it is taken into account how it applies to his main concern of social value (its centralism or its originality Meaning). Ethics and social theory