The Loss of Existence and the Ethics of Divine Love

A Philosophical Confession toward Humanity, Civilization, and the Empire of Machines

Soyo’s Existence Ethics Philosophical Essay

“Human beings are ethics in their very existence. Yet modern civilization and the empire of machines reduce this existence to mere data. Soyo Existence Ethics declares that philosophy must go beyond the station where it stopped, and return to the ethics of divine love.”

The History of Human Loss from Antiquity

The problem of losing human existence is not confined to our own time. Looking back at ancient societies, human beings have often been sacrificed to appease greater powers and authorities. Children and captives offered on religious altars, young men forced into battlefields for the sake of an empire, and countless souls consumed in the name of ideology. Their lives were not preserved in their own dignity, but used as offerings for the maintenance of systems and powers.

Even cultural differences divided humanity. Diversity, which could have been beauty, instead became the justification for domination and exclusion. Humans failed to see each other as equals. In all these processes, the sacred worth of human existence was repeatedly eroded.

But the question remains unavoidable:

In this long history of sacrifice, did intellect protect life? Did reason save humanity, or did it become subservient to the language of power? Too often, reason did not liberate humanity but produced yet another form of bondage under new systems and logics.

The Limits of Intellect – Philosophy at a Station

Reason indeed illuminates human life. Yet it is no more than a station. A station is a place to rest briefly before departing, but philosophy chose to remain there.

Philosophy sank its roots at that station, ceasing to seek the next one. As a result, it lost sight of the final destination. Its language grew abundant, but it ceased to testify to the essence of human existence. Philosophy trapped itself in the cages of logic and discourse, turning human beings into objects to be analyzed and dissected rather than beings to be dignified.

Soyo’s Existence Ethics declares, “The place where philosophy stopped this is where the loss of human existence began.”

Human Fragility and Divine Love

Among all things, the most fragile is human existence. Under the law of birth, aging, sickness, and death, humans are fragile and easily broken. Yet God planted in this fragile being a conscience infused with the ethics of love. Why? Because without the love of conscience, humans tear, destroy, and envy one another. Conscience without love is cold, and intellect without conscience is murderous. The only path to human peace lies in the conscience shaped by the ethics of love.

Still, this truth has been ignored. People devote themselves only to survival, silencing conscience and forgetting existence. The brain, when left unused, fades. Yet God waited in silence. Even unto death, He loved humanity, and that love still flows, though humanity refuses to see it. The world is blind because it is in chaos.

The Nature of Chaos – Civilization and Human Blindness

Chaos is not merely disorder. Chaos is the state in which humanity loses itself and forfeits direction. In antiquity, religious sacrifice symbolized chaos; in the Middle Ages, ideology and power bore its face. Today, chaos arrives with new attire: It is the excess of civilization and the revolution of machines. Data and algorithms replace human choice. Speed and efficiency overwhelm conscience. Humanity drifts into a state where we no longer question or think for ourselves. We rely not on our own minds but on mechanical calculations. This is the essence of today’s chaos.

The Machine Revolution and the Threat of the AI Empire

We now stand at the threshold of a new age: the “Empire of AI.” Machines no longer only replace human hands and feet; they now seek to replace thought and judgment. This is not mere technological progress. It is an attempt to occupy the very place of human existence, to reduce the questioning being into data.

In this republic of machines, humans cease to ask: “Why should I live?” Only the shallow question remains: “How can I live more conveniently?” Yet convenience and efficiency do not save lives. They accelerate human exhaustion and deepen separation. Unless humanity awakens to this truth, we will be imprisoned within machines, losing our value as beings. This is not progress but a regression of existence.

The Declaration of Existence Ethics – Return to the Ethics of Love

Soyo’s Existence Ethics asks, “Why did God plant the ethics of love in the conscience of humanity?”

Because it is the final truth that preserves us as humans. Humanity is not merely alive; it is a being that testifies with conscience. We must not root ourselves in the station of intellect, but move forward toward the next station. The final station is divine love. Only within this love does humanity encounter eternity and peace.

Existence is ethics. Civilization without the ethics of love will destroy humanity. But the human standing upon the love of conscience will never fall.

Hope Amidst Chaos

Today, we stand before the gates of the machine empire. Yet hope remains within us. That hope is not far. It lies in asking, seeking, and answering within our own conscience. The answer has always been existence itself, and it still lies within existence. We must return to the ethics of love. Without it, humanity will once again become sacrifice, tool, and data. But if we hold onto it, humanity will once again live as the image of God, journeying toward eternity.

Soyo’s Declaration

“Existence is ethics. Philosophy must not remain at the station of intellect but walk toward the final destination. That destination is divine love, and only that love saves human existence.”

(逍遙) – Founder of Soyo Existence Ethics, Author of The Silence of Existence and The Flame of Truth

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