Sotumvatey asked:

It seems to me that we are, now, talking too much about the origin and the capacity of our reason.
Why our brain is so functionable like this. I guess if we still talk about this we could not bring our
people to what some philosophers call 'human flourishing'.

My question is that should we turn our concern to the human living condition, both material and
spiritual, without seeking why we operate like this. Even though we find out the answer, so what? We
still need something to eat and we still pray, in different aspects through different religions. If we
spend 1 hour to think about the origin of thing we have lost 1 hour to produce food and something
else, am I right?

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This reminds me of Marx's idea in The German Ideology,the relevant text of which can be read under
the Chapter heading 'Philosophy' in The Florilegium at http://www.sicetnon.com/. First philosophy as
the production of material life itself. A beguiling idea. However, 'the human living condition' doesn't
just happen naturally, as if thinking were a distraction from doing. Bread making or wine making; for
instance derive from the invention of bread and wine, which were ideas to begin with. The same can
be said of all our 'human living conditions'. In fact, to call them 'human' living conditions is an idea
with immense and lasting consequences, because it shows a measure of reflection and a language
situation in which the word 'human' states the truth of these 'conditions'. This is not a chicken-and-egg
thing of which comes first, material conditions or thinking. The two exist together wherever we are.
They determine each other, but experience soon shows which is stronger. The ascendancy of
civilization over barbarity and material conditions shows the dominance and prominence of thinking.

Matthew Del Nevo

www.sicetnon.com