/lit/ - Literature

>>15098560
I don't think most men can understand philosophy; only a handful each generation, and the mechanism behind it is more than simple intelligence.
Pic related is a good analogy. A philosophical argument is this puzzle ball, and each piece is a part of the argument. Most people of above average intelligence can put the ball together and understand the argument piece by piece. But true understanding is an epiphany that ignites a simulataneous grasping of all the parts of the argument such that they appear as one indivisible truth- as if the ball, when put together, fuses into a perfect sphere without the cracks/ logical divisions of each piece of the argument. This sort of understanding is the root of epiphanies and true grasping of philosophical truth, and I think very few people achieve it, and the few who do have something akin to Christian grace.

Most people will never be able to grasp Truths beyond the paradigm they were brought up into- for that, we need a collective religion, which ideally serves to indoctrinate Truths into people through authority into accepting a good framework for life. Essentially, almost nobody can think very far past received knowledge, and the boundaries of their thought are guarded by subconscious allegiance to it. The most they can do is put the pick related puzzle together, pay superficial homage to the fact that it logically makes sense, but in their hearts and minds not grasp the intuitive truth of what that means.