The World Suffers from a Severe Philosophical Illness: Toward the Revival of Human Existence and Ethics - Chapter 80

Soyo Existence Ethics (Existence itself is Ethics)

A Diseased Intelligence

The world today is suffering from a severe philosophical illness.

People believe they are still thinking, yet their thoughts have long ceased to be contemplation; they have become calculations. Language has turned into a technical instrument of logic, and philosophy has become a decorative ornament of knowledge rather than a confession of truth. Knowledge accumulates, yet wisdom dries up. Analysis overflows, but conscience disappears. Intellectuals construct the structures of language, but their words contain neither blood nor tears. As human language loses its life, philosophy quietly dies.

The Corruption of Philosophy, the Distortion of Thought

All ideologies have been divided by political interests and national colors. The seat of truth has been replaced by worldly power, and the language of conscience is now imprisoned within biased logic. Philosophers no longer seek to save humanity. They worship analysis, place logic above life, and limit truth to the act of explanation. But truth is not something to be explained; truth must be lived.

The Loss of Human Existence

“Humanity has endlessly discussed how to live life, and philosophers have spent their own lives in pursuit of that question. Yet what is the result? Why is the philosophical confession that proclaims the sacredness of life so feared by the world?” - Soyo Maxim

Throughout history, philosophers have spoken about human life, yet the breath of humanity vanished from their writings. They studied life, but they did not love it. Their language analyzed human beings, but it never embraced them. Today’s philosophers are no different. What has halted their intelligence? What has locked their souls inside the prisons of logic and analysis? It is the arrogance of an intellect that feared love because living the truth terrifies them far more than speaking it.

Morality and Ethics: A Difference of Life

The world speaks of morality, yet it has lost ethics. Morality is a social rule, but ethics is the heartbeat of existence. Morality teaches right and wrong, but ethics awakens the living conscience within a human being. The difference between the two is the difference between death and life.

Morality without ethics is a taxidermized virtue; ethics without morality becomes chaos. Only when existence and ethics unite can philosophy restore life. Yet philosophers of this age lock this truth inside their systems. To them, philosophy is merely a concept, a structure, and an idea. But Soyo declares:

“Philosophy is the human being itself; it is ethics, it is life, and it is eternity.”

The Revival of Language That Gives Life

“Is there no one who will pour out a language that restores life, who will breathe life into this turbulent world, and dare to become a sacrifice if necessary?” Philosophy is not analysis; it is confession. A language that restores life is not born from reason but from the martyrdom of love.

Knowledge may teach a person, but only love can save a person.

Today, the world writes papers, but those papers contain no prayer. Knowledge overflows, yet tears are absent. Thus, humanity lives in an age of intellectual abundance and spiritual famine.

Philosophy’s Final Questions

Philosophy must now ask itself:

“Do I still love human beings?”

“Do I analyze truth, or do I live truth?”

Analysis may describe the world, but only love can save it. When philosophy abandoned humanity, humanity lost itself. Now, philosophy must return to the human being.

Like an Early Autumn Wind

The early autumn wind feels unusually cold today, not because the world has cooled, but because the human heart has. Within that wind, Soyo asks: “Does philosophy still love humanity?” As long as that question remains, philosophy has not yet entirely died. When philosophy speaks of love again, and when ethics once more embraces life, only then will the world be saved.

The Declaration of Soyo Existence Ethics

Philosophy is not an academic discipline. It is the testimony of life

and the confession of human existence.

Philosophy is the human being itself; it is ethics, it is life, and it is eternity.”

— Soyo Existence Ethics Maxim

This single sentence is the spark of truth that will raise philosophy once more.

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

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