I. Self-Reference

I. Self-Reference

Religion is the domain of Certainty.

The Arts is the domain of Abstraction.

Science is the domain of Empiricism.

Philosophy is the domain of Reason.


Reason is the baseline for human thinking. Therefore Reason is the most Common Thought amongst man, available to all those (philosophers) who would choose to use Reason for their own gain, if they were ever interested to do so. But although Reason is the most Common Thought, this fact does not always appear evident by peoples actions. The cause of this is Human Emotion and its innate conflict with Human Reason. Emotion, Feeling, and Intuition can all clog the process of reasoning and dilute Pure Reason into something stained or tarnished with petty human volition. In other words, a human beings Will to Power interrupts a mans reasoning and infects it with sexual desire, or, the need to posit ones presence as Authoritative/Dominant. And because the Common Man, with his Common Thought, is so desperate for Power, he must suffer when it comes to his reasoning. He cannot sacrifice Knowledge for the sake of Power. Since in-fact Knowledge is Power.

The more knowledgeable a man is, the more reasonable he is or can become. But does not knowledge entail a degree of Reason, Empiricism, Abstraction, and Certainty? Yes, it does. Knowledge includes all of these things. But Human Knowledge begins with Reason and ends with either Absolute Certainty or Uncertainty. Through a long chain-of-events, concerning Common Thought, the Philosopher goes about turning reason into something possibly-useful...an idea or an ideal. And from such ideals, the Philosopher can also decide to become certain of his Convictions, or not, depending on how strong he constructs his own foundations for Belief. However, of course, the Realm of Belief is not necessarily-included into his reasoning because the Authentic Philosopher first Knows Nothing before he can Believe Something. As stated, Knowing implies at least some Certainty. But how does Knowledge and Reason co-operate?

Human Knowledge or Knowing is a passive process. It is genetic and generative. What it produces are human interactions which appear self-motivated or predetermined. In other words, Human Knowledge produces Animation-itself regarding the human body and its life-form. Even while unconscious, the human heart continues to beat, the human lungs continue to breathe, and the human temperature continues to burn calories to maintain its body heat. All of these unconscious, somatic actions presume to Reason that Human Knowledge within the human body has long-ago internalized the necessary & fundamental functions from which the human body maintains its homeostasis as a protection against Death. From this evidence (for Life), people are inclined to believe that the Human Body/Form is automatically-instructed how to live based on innate or a-priori concepts, of genetics, which instill a type of "code to survival". From this set of (theoretical) instructions, Human Knowledge is derived.

There cannot be any Condition sufficient enough to explain or describe Human Knowledge as a whole until the Human Animal-itself becomes mastered by a higher specie, or, an evolved form of the once-human specie. In other words, a particular specie can only-become Mastered not by itself, but through a higher degree of intelligence. Because Human Intelligence is what separates Man-from-Beast; so too will intelligence become the deciding factor of what separates Ubermensch-from-Man. Because of this hierarchy for intelligence, those who are unfit to explain or describe Human Knowledge will expose their own failure to think or self-reflect insofar as their lacking Reason-ability signals their constitution as a (human) specie. Thus it is from this Self-knowledge that one shall begin to exactly-understand how the process of human knowledge, or of knowing in-general, exists as a form & function of Power-itself. And what can Man know except Anything, or Nothing, or Something, or Everything? "Know thyself!"

Reason is the Activity from whence Knowledge immediately-exposes itself and becomes evident to the so-called "Material World". And the only Reason worth speaking about is that Reason which is Self-Evident. Therefore the only Reason I will refer to is that which is Self-Evident to myself first & foremost. All other reasons are inconsequential outside what can be empirically-proven, and taken at face value. In this way, Philosophy becomes Self-Evident to those men of reason, and to all those philosophers out there who aspire to identify with the First & Greatest Art of Mankind. In other words, if Reason cannot persuade a man to think different, or act different, then there is no alternative left except to force his essence along with physical motivation, inclined by intimidation, and decided with Violence. Here arises the Sophistry of Thrasymachus and his "Might makes Right" rule. But this provision, albeit true, neither accounts for Human Knowledge nor Human Reason...those things which make a Man "civilized". And through (philosophical) argumentation or introspection, this point becomes all the more clearer.

Because Philosophy is based upon the Trust between Friends-first, as brotherly-Fraternity, interaction amongst all those "philosophers" who know each other naught becomes Superficial. Reason is that force which forges Trust between men through heated argument & debate of exactly-what is true, good, right, or not. And such philosophical exchanges only-serve to prove which men are the Wiser, are the Good, or are the "Stronger" in terms of their Self-Evident Knowledge. Thus what is True becomes objective only through a continual, ongoing refinement. And through this refinement arises the case for Human Reasoning. The Arena where philosophers engage one-another is beset by those who destroy Human Emotionalism, and the Self-evidence becomes all the more clear & true. Who is willing to sacrifice their petty feelings & intuitions will step forward to become that Philosopher most admired by all his inferiors. So this is what I mean by "Reason" and "Self-Evidence".

As a Philosopher, a man must Self-Reference all points back to himself. Thus constitutes his Logos (his Logic). For example, if a person claims that he walks in two places at the same time, in New York and London, then those intelligent men will have a Reason to refute his claims as they appear in an obvious contradiction to one-another. How can a man be in two places at the same time? This is the confusion to which the Philosopher makes light of. And it is from these ever-spawning Contradictions concerning life-itself that the Philosopher makes his Work into an Art-form. Because what he will do, using various Generalities and Specifications, is clarify what is Meant or Intended concerning Human Reason and Human Knowledge as well. Where the Philosopher fails in his work, Nothing can be Known. Because who knows more than the Most Reasonable Ones, those philosophers who toil away at thinking, while the rest of the world goes about its daily life Unthinking all that they have already-learned?

I leave the final question to you, The Reader, to solve.