Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 69
EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY. On the one hand there is the revealed truth and on the other, the so-called truth reached entirely through the agency of human of human reason. The merits of the two philosophies are not too difficult to examine. The Divine proclamation invariably claims that justice and fair play in human affairs affairs cannot be established without their absoluteness. Moral corruption and a code of ethics based on absolute justice cannot go hand in hand. Absolute truth is the essence of all morality, and absolute morality is the essence of all truth. Hence without the rehabilitation of absolute values in man, no dream of a heaven upon earth can be envisioned. This has always been the universal pronouncement of all ages. . Marx rose to defy this age-old philosophy founded on revelation. He rejected it outright rejected it outright and made the counterclaim that man stands in no need of Divine guidance nor according to him, does any God exist. Hence it is for man to carve his own path to the ultimate realization of his dream of heaven upon earth. Thus, he carved a path guided entirely by his own intellect, completely devoid of. Divine guidance. . Looking at the Marxist vision of a stateless society once again, another fundamental flaw which has already been hinted at comes to light. It is assumed without foundation that if the society is economically levelled, the root cause of crime will be destroyed; hence no state power will be needed to combat crime. The greed in man, however, is certainly not limited to the area of his economic activity. Even if the objectives of Marxism are entirely achieved there is much more to the greed of man than meets the Marxist eye. . Human psyche gives birth to so many desires and ambitions that any solution proposed to solve problems without taking them into account would be inadequate. 69