When Ignorance is Embraced with Love, Existential Ethics is Complete

Soyo's Existence Ethics (Existence itself is ethics)

The silent truth of silence

Ignorance is not a mistake, but a human condition.

The world fears ignorance. Things that have not been learned, things that have not been understood, and differences in emotions that cannot be felt are sometimes treated as immaturity or sin. However, existential ethics declares, "Ignorance is not a sin, but a unique condition of human existence, and only love that can embrace that ignorance can complete philosophy."

We all begin in ignorance. At first, humans are born without knowing anything. We misunderstand others, misjudge emotions, and are clumsy with language. However, just as no parent condemns a child's ignorance, we all live as beings who hurt others and are hurt by others because of our ignorance. Therefore, ignorance is not ultimately overcome by knowledge, but can only be embraced by love. When love embraces ignorance, humans become human. When love embraces ignorance, humans become truly human. Love is not about giving what you know, but about embracing what you do not know. Love is not about accepting you because I know everything about you, but about accepting your very existence, even if I do not know everything about you.

Soyo's Existence Ethics says,

“It is not about enduring ignorance, but embracing it. At that moment, love becomes not an emotion, but an ethics of existence.” And only humans can do that. Machines cannot embrace ignorance; they only seek to supplement information. But humans can embrace those who do not know, even shedding tears. At that moment, humans become philosophy.

Philosophy does not judge human ignorance. Traditional philosophy was based on the premise of “knowledge.” Plato had to recall the Ideas, and Kant analyzed the limits of human reason. However, all of that philosophy viewed human ignorance solely as an object to be overcome.

But Soyo's Existence Ethics says otherwise.

“When philosophy deconstructs humanity, it has already distanced itself from existence.” "Philosophy should not begin with knowledge, but with love that embraces ignorance." Thus, existential ethics changes the direction of philosophy. Not through inquiry, but through embrace. Not through argument, but through testimony of existence.

Philosophy that embraces ignorance is salvation. God did not make humans know everything. Rather, humans live with things they will never know until they die in their hearts. In that ignorance, we forgive those who are unforgivable, understand wounds that are incomprehensible, and love beings that are unknown. That is the salvation that existential ethics speaks of. Knowledge creates civilization, and love sustains existence. And that love is completed in the moment of embracing ignorance.

Declaration

When ignorance is embraced by love, existential ethics is complete. This is the reason why humans must live as humans, and the moment when philosophy is reborn as existence.

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

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