Perfection and Reality Continued...

On this principle of finality depends the first principle of practical reason and of morality. It runs thus: "Do good, avoid evil." It is founded on the idea of good, as the principle of contradiction on the idea of being. In other words: The rational being must will rational good, that good, namely, to which its powers are proportioned by the author of its nature. [141].

All these principles are the principles of our natural intelligence. They are first manifested in that spontaneous form of intelligence which we call common sense, that is, the natural aptitude of intelligence, before all philosophic culture, to judge things sanely. Common sense, natural reason, seizes these self-evident principles from its notion of intelligible reality. But this natural common sense could not yet give these principles an exact and universal formulation. [142].

Why is it that people are merely reacting to leadership as saviors instead of working out plans for themselves? How have we become so PASSIVE in our appropriation of reality?

It may be because of the bombardment of news, input, knowledge, BUT WITHOUT ANY PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK.

Natural intelligence presupposes that objects and subjects are separate from each other and that one is capable of judgement; that is, standing back and examining cause and effect.

So many people merely react, like billiard balls on a table after one is hit.

Where is free will in this constant reaction....? Why is the will frozen, or underdeveloped? Are you remembering that when each one of us die, we face God alone?

Are you, dear reader, really making choices in your life? Are you seeking or complacent in your knowledge?

To be continued....