Because I feel that Shakespeare was right. All the worldly is a stage. Now, if you believe that, then the next line, is not too far of a stretch, ----to be or not to be, ------ our existence is neither in the comprehension of choice, we are thrown into this world, (an existential mantra); we are determined to act out our prescribed roles.
If so, then our preception so, and our knowledge based on them are perfectly determined by our roles.
We are determined to play the prescribed roles, and our so called existence make perfect sense:
To purvey our necessary link between those who came before us, and those, who will come after us.
Our existence is merely a link, a very minute one at that, , to enable the chain of being to proceed.
How minute? Think of what Helena Blavatsky said of the first tangent of life of three hundred trillion and forty billion years, then, you will begin to feel the minute es of individual existence.
Now, if it is existence in itself you are talking about, then the permutations become innumerable even within one life time.
Therefore, it is difficult to think or talk of existence.
It simply doesen’t exist.
I would but not as an existent. Just another wavelet in a universe of waves, in a moment in relative time, and space.
That moment disappears almost near the limit whereby it appears. Solipsism is like the wavelet in that instant appearance in the ocean of energy. It’s an instant of self awareness.
That instant is cosmically, eternally infinite, as multiplied by all the instants of it’s occurances, somehow attaining unified forms of apprehension.
Without solipsism, there could not be a self realization, a consciousness. Evolving beyond the animal would prove to be groundless, hopeless, and faithless. It needs to be conscious of it’s self because, of the underlying connectedness of energy would loose motive, in the existentially creative sense.
It’s an imminent organized sense of the need to be:
the Dasein. In this basic sense, the question, to be, or not to be cannot be asked, it is not a question of existential choice, it’s Being is eternally determined,
by it’s law, it’s ‘Soul’.
That Soul is grounded in the need to adhere, to compose, the general sense of Being. (In it’s Self).
But a solipsist says that there is no reality outside of the self (the I). So he does not need any realization. He thinks, and that is already all (no realization needed).
All philosophers make assumptions. Good philosophers know what those assumptions are. Very good philosophers hold only assumptions that do not conflict with each other. That’s pretty basic.
I assume a godless, entirely physical universe. Many people don’t. And it affects their behavior.
I am not uncertain about it. But I cannot demonstrate it. It’s an assumption. I can use these assumptions to make arguments, which may prove subsequent claims, based in part on these assumptions. Any deductive argument (or mathematical proof) ultimately rests upon assumptions. 2 + 2 = 4 rests on assumptions as all mathematics does. Given those assumptions, and only given those assumptions, 2 + 2 = 4 is a proof. Philosophers usually seek assumptions. It’s part of what we do.
