Sometimes the physical is subjective and the subjective is physical

The answers distress us and make us go on like this – almost always – without a conclusive coherence...

I really wanted to understand the principle of everything; how the origin and essence of things around us came about. I don't suffer from wanting the unpublished [the unobserved], but I take comfort in what was narrated, written, aired to the world... Such a prodigy constitutes us as a cultural being who lives and retells stories with tears, joy and also with very shame.

Returning to my concerns, I return to my question:

How was everything created?

Seeking complicity with Western history, back in ancient Greece, in the sixth century BC, I go back in the footsteps of the first pre-Socratic philosophers. His concerns promoted secular questionings that support some assertions until today, daring the most complex and observable phenomena that set fire to the stages of knowledge, starting from naturalism to existentialism.

Is it natural to want to understand the world? I believe it is the beginning of all human construction, but the answers don't always calm us down; sometimes they afflict us and destabilize what we are looking for, going – like this – almost always without an answer.

In the first explanations of ancient Greece, the first philosophers surrendered to the four elements of nature: earth, water, fire and air. What would become of us, mere mortals, without this observance? With these elements, life is made in its cycles made up of protagonists and (of course) their supporting actors – not less important – who, above all, are molded having their substances as a helper of the stories, promoting their deeds to the existence of the being. However, these achievements and [consequently] their effects are not always perceived, even if they are not given due value, deconstructing their maximum importance in the scientific field and, obviously, in common sense as well.

I want to go back to the origin of things, their essence! As well as for lovers of knowledge, contemplating the four elements and running through the “ARCHÉ” that composes and gives rise to the universe, this search makes us understand that perceiving them puts us in a common field underlying all existence.

To these elements, their transformations bring about harmony through the understanding of contrariety. Materializing the thought, let's think about the following logic:

“Being cold, at some point it was hot; thinking about water, when it is solid, it will return to its origin without losing its essence”.

These observances were done back in ancient Greece.

Still anchored in ancient Greece, investigations in Aristotelianism seek the realities that transcend the sensitive experience, capable of providing a foundation to all particular sciences, through reflection on nature, giving us support to leave naturalism and enter the existentialism, making it possible to see ourselves as a being that transforms things and that transforms itself, too.

To these redeemed metamorphoses that begin in the physical and run through human subjectivity, it is declared that naturalism complements the world of ideas, promoting infinite interpretations that transcend human limits.

We get bored with such questions about the origin of things (not because of their value given to them or because of their "dis-value"), but because of the lack of sensitivity to perceive the physical and so little to connect to the human subjectivity so coveted, but little exercised.

Antelmara Silva.

Pedagogue and degree in Philosophy.