Observance and Reflection

Subject: Observance and reflection

1. Can the mind be understood scientifically
2. Can morality be studied objectively.
3. Can morality be reduced to the pursuit of rational self interest.
4. Are desires and dispositions naturally given or socially created.
5. Do humans possess moral choice.
6. Can we transform human nature.

These are not the sort of questions which most of us would consider important and yet they are at the centre of who we are and what we do throughout our lives.
There are so many fundamental questions we never ask our selves. We assume that we do what we do because we are who we are without asking how did I become the person I am.
Observance and reflection should be on the curriculum of every school and with it the importance of asking questions. As the world we live in changes we should ask ourselves not to judge from a position wholly based on our knowledge of the past but reflect about the present and try to assimilate past with present.
Observance frees us of living closed within our own prejudice since actuality is rarely as bad as what we predict. We learn that our notion of people as individuals is often very rewarding and we shift our ideas a little neared the actual.
Of course the actual is very personal and will differ between all of us but even under the most difficult situations the human being in front of you has more similarities than differences and it's these similarities which are the seed corn of our own growth in understanding.