Wayne P.

Roales March 4, 2012

Final Examination in Contemporary History of Philosophy 2

Twig!

“The ontologies we have are the stuffs that make up for the kind of humans that we are.”
– Rev. Fr. Ernesto Fernando V. Placibe, M.A., Ph.L.

True! Since time immemorial, man has sought the meaning of things, life, the world, and
of himself; he questioned myths, beliefs of old and new, and came up with much; some are a bit
odd, others are too degrading in a way, some just right, incomplete, but reasonable in way, others
developed, some neglected, all finding much about truth and reality. Man has been much flurried
by his search for meaning and truth, man has gone far, reasoning out for that which he knows is
and is not, and in man’s search, he found things out as they are in themselves, their being ‘beings
as such’, truth and meaning, reality as it is, ‘ontologies’. Weird! But is and is so.

Long has man dealt with ontologies, be one conscious or not about it, searching and
studying truths and meaning about himself and the world in order ‘to give man a better chance of
progress, allowing himself to understand reality better’. It has much accompanied man in life, he
lives it; the way he looks at things as themselves, at man as man, at something far greater than
man, his outlook in life, imbued in man’s consciousness through reason, teachings, experiences,
studying, through life. And it has much benefited man.

Nonetheless, as is, in the long run, man has wavered about his stand, and about reality
itself, he questioned his own beliefs, the truths he has found, the meanings he has seen and has
held upon, the ontologies as such as they are, and has done much to complicate and degrade
himself. Folly! Bringing one down after another, bringing himself down, just for the reason he
has found it irrational (or has just found himself not so much as he thought he were that he
cannot comprehend his own reality, that he cannot go further than what is just before him), trying
to unearth that which suits his own caprices. Woe! Yet, it is as it is.

I say not that questioning and altering those of old are vile, as it is what man has done to
arrive at those in the first place, but rather, that of bringing down oneself, seeing too little of the
whole of reality, if not seeing it as it is; that of man cowering off due to something he cannot
wholly apprehend, if not whereupon he finds himself in the most uncomfortable condition
wherein he cannot accept without letting go of what one wills as apparently good to him. Such
much of egoism! A pity for man!

Supposed to bring man up to that which is his own, he thrashes himself away from that
which really is; blind enough to not see as things really are; ignorant enough to look and not see;
arrogant enough to make a fool of himself. He demeans the whole of humanity, all, and Him,
with ontologies (if they are still as such) of new. Alas! As it is, bring forth lies, treat reality as it
is not, be naïve, transcend not, doom man! Yet be true, understand, and thus, be!