Was I born with the inate ability to play football? or understand business? to sew a shirt button? to talk in numerous languages? to run a marathon? to understand philosophy?
There is this belief that we are all born with the ability to do anything with the life we are given and that our environment and what we are exposed to is what determines what we will achieve with our lives. I guess this could go for physical activities as well as emotional feelings and beliefs. In the Intro to Philosophy course we just finished talking about various religions. Going off of this belief that we may all posses the feelings for everything, this means everyone theoretically could be any religion. If this is the truth, why is there such competition to gain members for a certain religion when they all stem from the same feelings within us each?
If we have the inate ability to understand anything...then why do I not understand the majority of the stuff that I should? Like some of the crazy abstract ideas that are presented in this class. Do you have to have genius status in order to completely comprehend everything in this world and tap all of the ability you inately have?
When I started typing this, I hoped that an answer or two would flow out of me and on to here...but yet again, all I do is pose more questions. Is this a never ending cycle? There I go again!
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Having the innate ability to understand anything (within reason) is very different from having the innate ability to understand everything.
But if you can inately understand anything...what is to say you cannot understand everything?
As I see it, the innate ability to understand anything (within reason) signals a capacity to learn; understanding everything, on the other hand, both goes beyond the raw capacity (to actuality), and violates my parenthentical comment about the limit of human understanding (we may never know what it feels like to see an object simultaneously from more than one perspective, for example).
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