Ultimate Knowledge is Inaccessible
We may rightly assume that reason leads to the ‘inaccessibility of ultimate knowledge’. Our basic premise is based on ‘what is’, or what seems to be ‘is’, depending on our subjective perception of it. Objectivity demands our perceptibility of what is represents reality.
In other words, does our quest for knowledge unveil our ignorance? If reason is our tool of investigation then we are limited to its conditions. For no one can tell, until now, about the nature, the presence, the origin and finality of any object constituting the universe, whether in unison or in concert with other objects. If we accept this perspective then we are confronted with a ‘ignorance’ attainable only through knowledge, or what seems to be knowledge.
Our present state of knowledge, whether scientific or otherwise, with all its progress does not permit us to attain ‘ultimate knowledge’ that remains unknown. Science today has not unveiled the enigmatic nature of things, the universe, its presence, its constituting phenomena and the mystery of life.
If we accept the limits of knowledge then the significance of this assumption emerges. The argument here is not to create a problem but to acknowledge the problem. No knowledge can pretend to truth. We live in a universe (about 13.3-20 billion years) as enigmatic as our recent presence within it ( about 9-8 million years).
Our approach is not that of nihilism or of scepticism or of suspensionism nor is it of reductionalism or determinism, neither of doubt or estimation nor of justification, nor is it of fatalism or solipsism. But it leads rather away from certainty verging on uncertainty and ultimately to belief and agnosticism standing in opposition. Facing the universe finalizes, according to this outlook and lack of evidence, in a subjective personal choice.
Whatever we are facing, identified as object, phenomenon, or a thing, we are in constant wondering about the how and the why of its presence.
Should this lead to a ‘state of knowledge’ or a ‘state of ignorance’ the attempt is worthwhile.
