Truth Does Not Come to Those Who Seek It - Chapter 36

Soyo's Existence Ethics (Existence itself is Ethics)

Humanity Questions Truth, Yet Truth Is Buried

"Human beings and philosophy will be buried in untruth while searching and questioning for truth."

This single sentence overturns 2,400 years of philosophical history. From Plato to Heidegger, humanity has endlessly sought, questioned, and defined truth.

Yet Soyo's Existence Ethics holds that the end of such inquiry inevitably falls into the trap of untruth, since truth is not a concept but a living being. To question truth is to turn it into an object separate from oneself. But truth does not dwell outside of humanity. Truth lives within the breath of ethical existence. It cannot be demonstrated or defined. Truth survives only within the practice of life and the decision of conscience.

The Error of Philosophy - The Sin of Making Truth an Object of Thought

Philosophy has long sought to interpret truth. It became humanity's most refined intellectual game. But in that game, humanity drifted farther and farther from the truth. Soyo writes:

"The moment philosophy tries to explain truth, truth has already departed."

Kant sought to define truth through reason; Heidegger tried to recall Being through language. But all such attempts were human arrogance, language standing above truth. Truth cannot be explained within human understanding; it must be lived within human existence. Therefore, philosophy must not be a science that "seeks truth," but a witness of life that strives not to lose it.

Truth Does Not Come to Those Who Seek It

"For truth is neither to be found nor to be asked, but exists only when a living being lives the ethics of conscience through existence itself."

Soyo regards truth not as an object of cognition, but as an event of conscience. Truth is not discovered, it is revealed in the very act of living.

To ask for truth is to transform it into a form of desire: "I want to know."

Yet truth cannot be the object of desire. Truth appears only where a person humbly lives it out. That place is the conscience, the chamber where the breath of God dwells, and within it, humanity becomes the one who keeps truth alive.

Those Who Have Lived Truth - The Final Place Philosophy Must Reach

Throughout history, all philosophy has pursued "knowledge." But Soyo's philosophy returns to "life." Many philosophers claim to know the truth, but few have truly lived it.

Philosophical language has filled thousands of volumes, yet within those words lies no trace of a human's suffering, no trembling of the soul. Soyo's Existence Ethics fills that void. It does not speak of truth, it lives truth. That is what Soyo calls "philosophy beyond philosophy."

"Truth does not dwell with those who speak it; truth abides in those who live it with conscience."

Humanity's Mission - Do Not Interpret Truth, But Revive It

Humanity must now end the age of interpreting truth. Knowledge overflows, but the soul starves. People debate justice, but they do not love. Countless theses speak of ethics, yet not one saves a single human being.

Soyo's Existence Ethics declares:

"If philosophy cannot save even one life, it does not deserve to remain in the name of truth."

Truth does not reside in the thesis; it resides in tears. Truth is not within ideology; it is in the moral resolve of conscience. When more human beings live truth, philosophy will finally be resurrected as the language of life.

Soyo's Proposition

"Human beings and philosophy will be buried in untruth while searching and questioning for truth. For truth is neither to be found nor to be asked, but exists only when a living being lives the ethics of conscience through existence itself."

Soyo (逍遙) — Founder of Soyo's Existence Ethics, Author of The Silence of Being, The Flame of Truth

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