The Human Intellectual Evolution

The Human Intellectual Evolution

  • Submitted By: InSaneSaint
  • Date Submitted: 08/12/2010 11:42 PM
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As the first human stepped on to this planet, the intellectual evolution began its journey. Knowledge got the very meanings it deserved, perceptions resulted into notions and thinking eventually ended up as doctrines and beliefs. Intellect intervened, and the concept of universe and the creator became the primary objective of issues of most philosophical nature. Life initiated to be defined as the struggle to find truth. Thoughts got enough acceptances to be materialized as practical ethics, and eventually became the characterization of virtue and vice. Maxims came together for consensus and as a result, a set of philosophies was born. Meditation became a habit of the virtuous ones and contemplation turned out to be the tradition of piousness. The omens started guiding the explorers and the senses began to develop enough room for logic to get through. The struggle continues and does not seem to grasp an end of the reality as yet.
Right from the beginning, men ought to find truth in their own existences and the very frame of universe containing them. As a reaction to the spiritual experiences they had, and the perpetual happenings around them, they craved for the Divine powers to show them the path of the unknown and believed in their instincts, that they believed were a modicum of the divinity of the very Creator, who has the knowledge of all the hidden things. This was the routine of almost every truthful struggle until humanity confronted a new way to look at things, and that was to think about needs, which seemed to be a really important truth for men of flesh and blood.
Men found ways to mould morals according to what would suit them. Rather than going along the ones laid by God, they devised their own notions, which they thought, would help them live a better life – a life that would be having ample freedom and sense of self-assurance. They came to think about the ideology, that in the today’s world of liberalism and free will, religion and spirituality...

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