History’s Intellectual Fallacies

HISTORY’S INTELLECTUAL FALLACIES Among the speculative sciences, philosophy is one of the most ancient. Many ‘big’ minds have been engaged in philosophical reflection. However, despite a long history, philosophers could not give man anything positive. Instead, they only increased man’s intellectual conundrums. A Persian poet has very rightly said: “While the philosopher could not uncover the secret of truth, it became a mystery that others could disclose.” In one term, what philosophy gave to man can be termed an ‘intellectual fallacy’—speculations that are not based on facts. The history of philosophical thought is filled with such examples. The common blunder of all philosophers is that there was an ideal model in each of their minds that could never be actualized. This is because the models in the minds of these philosophers were incompatible with God’s Creation Plan regarding this world. The Creator has created the present world for the test, not for reward. For this test, man has been given freedom. Man is free to use his liberty correctly or misuse it. Due to the misuse of freedom, the ideal cannot be established here. That is to say, this freedom for a test prevents an ideal system from ever being established in this world. A perfect system can only be established when all people, without exception, use their freedom correctly. However, since people often misuse their freedom, establishing an ideal system on Earth is impossible.