June 8, 2013

• Transcending the age of information

  Transcending the age of information

  Philosophy

  We truly live in an age of information. Whatever you want to know you can find on the internet with a simple search term in Google. For those fortunate, information is on a cell phone at our finger tips every day. What we do not know we can find out more with a moments notice. However it is certainly not an age of knowledge and even less an age of wisdom. Proof of this argument can be found in simply searching for how to make a bomb.

  The information is available…but the knowledge of life and how to settle disputes without war is lacking. Our bigger challenge in life is not anymore just technological but it is how to apply all the information we do have. The example of the bomb shows how dangerous information can be without the knowledge and wisdom to inform that information. In history man moved through the age of reason which helped to unlock many scientific discoveries. Breaking from pure faith to rely on tangible evidence and interpretation of facts through a structured method brought advances in society that is beyond the imagination of men who walked the earth in previous centuries. Reason brought man to the brink of skepticism where man began to doubt his own ability to even remotely know anything.

  Reason brought with it some knowledge but reason still failed to bring deeper wisdom. Wisdom is not found in the material world but in the phenomenal world. Reason rejected this world because it could not break it down into reasonable derivatives of explanation. The age of reason brought advancement but failed miserably in bringing illumination. We need to transcend the age of information and we need to leverage the age of reason i order to enter into an age of wisdom.

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