In the third chapter of The Experience of God , Hart explains how at times we can become aware of the world and start to question its existence and how it came to be. He also focuses of how we can find ourselves stuck in trying to figure this certain situation out.
Hart says, "The world is unable to provide its account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same" (88-89). This is true. This is a question that I ask myself all of the time. How can the world not have any type of origin, or an origin that we can go in depth of learning about, and still exist. If we think about it the world seems to not even need us to stay "alive" because it seems to be of its self. "How is it that any reality so obviously fortuitous- so lacking in any mark of inherent necessity of explanatory self-sufficiency- can exist?"(90) This question answers itself in the sense that the world does not seem to need us for anything because as far as we know it has been existing for centuries on its own account and that is what Hart is basically saying. The thing is that we are trying to figure out how does the world exist when we will never get a real answer.
"Not, that is, a simple twinge of curiosity or bafflement regarding some fact out there not yet in one's possession: if anything, it is the sudden awareness that no mere fact can possibly be an adequate explanation of the mystery in which one finds itself immersed at every moment"(87). What Hart is saying here is that we can find ourselves immersed in the fact that there is not an explanation, or rather not a detailed enough explanation of the world's existence. We can come to the point where this becomes such a question is our lives that if it becomes too time consuming it can take over our thoughts. We just have to move on to the fact that the existence of the world is just a question that we cannot answer and move on with our lives.
Hart says, "The world is unable to provide its account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same" (88-89). This is true. This is a question that I ask myself all of the time. How can the world not have any type of origin, or an origin that we can go in depth of learning about, and still exist. If we think about it the world seems to not even need us to stay "alive" because it seems to be of its self. "How is it that any reality so obviously fortuitous- so lacking in any mark of inherent necessity of explanatory self-sufficiency- can exist?"(90) This question answers itself in the sense that the world does not seem to need us for anything because as far as we know it has been existing for centuries on its own account and that is what Hart is basically saying. The thing is that we are trying to figure out how does the world exist when we will never get a real answer.
"Not, that is, a simple twinge of curiosity or bafflement regarding some fact out there not yet in one's possession: if anything, it is the sudden awareness that no mere fact can possibly be an adequate explanation of the mystery in which one finds itself immersed at every moment"(87). What Hart is saying here is that we can find ourselves immersed in the fact that there is not an explanation, or rather not a detailed enough explanation of the world's existence. We can come to the point where this becomes such a question is our lives that if it becomes too time consuming it can take over our thoughts. We just have to move on to the fact that the existence of the world is just a question that we cannot answer and move on with our lives.
This was a good topic because I wonder the same thing at times. It is true that the world do not need us to stay alive, if anything we are destroying it but we are also getting better. Anyhow, the dinosaurs roamed this earth for years and we can also question how did they come about. I do agree that there will never be an answer to this question and I am sure that people have tried to answer this question for years and all it will ever be is a theory.
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