Ten Dimensions of Philosophy and Religion in the Digital Internet Age E-Book

Georg E. Schäfer

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 95

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

How influenced the Information and Communication Technology -ICT- from the 1960s till now our awareness of philosophy and religion? The development of ICT was fast and disruptive. Irritation and undiscovered consciousness are within our souls and hearts. Now we urgently need orientation. Many of our beliefs are contradictory but conflicts are not transparent. This book shows and documents where our mind lost sight of important changes. Future challenges are described. Easy to understand help to solve everyday problems is provided. This is a framework for our personal ethics and thinking.

Leseprobe

About this book:

How influenced the Information and Communication Technology -ICT- from the 1960s till now our awareness of philosophy and religion? The development of ICT was fast and disruptive in generation steps of three to five years. Since the development of the Internet, later the Search Engines bringing all knowledge of the world to our finger-tips, and now the social networks with excellent speech recognition in many fields of applications, we feel that our mind was surprised by this development. Our mind didn’t follow these technology generations in a transparent way. The technology is difficult to understand. Irritation and undiscovered consciousness are within our souls and hearts. Now we urgently need orientation. Nobody described in a general and easy to understand overview what to expect now from philosophy and religion. Many of our beliefs are contradictory but conflicts are not transparent. This book shows and documents where our mind lost sight of important changes. Future challenges are described. Easy to understand help to solve everyday problems is provided. This is a framework for our personal ethics and thinking.

About the Autor Georg E. Schäfer:

Georg E. Schäfer studied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. He worked in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry as Development, Project and Sales Engineer. Later, in the Ministry of Interior in Baden-Württemberg, he served as front-runner of state ICT, responsible for co-ordination of state ICT with the ICT of the federal government and the local government and for the implementation of the latest technology in state administrations. For ten years he represented the German Bundestag in a High-Level Committee of the European Commission. Georg E. Schäfer is now retired and in the board of a church committee. All his life, he was interested in philosophy and theology. Now he has the time to add to his ongoing studies on the development of ICT (like Quantum Computers and Artificial Intelligence with Neural Networks and Algorithms) the fascinating world of philosophy and theology as a main field of interest.

Content

Your Philosophy can Glue the Satanic Split

Philosophy and Religion for our Life

Digital Internet Changed our Life Completely

Highlights of Digital Age Influence on Philosophy and Religion

Diversity Shapes today’s World

Plenty of All

Participation in Decision-Making

Philosophy and Religion Converge

Essentials of Digital Internet Age Philosophy

Your Ten Dimensions of Philosophy and Religion

“I am perfect”

: Fight AI Deformation of your Precious Personality

“I find happiness and love”

: Sustainable Happiness and Love Outside the Digital World

“I love heart and soul”

: Myths Create your Virtual Charisma

Highlights of Digital Age Theology

“I find friends everywhere”:

Networking Makes Friends for Life

“I never get tired”

: 10% for Leisure is Opening Doors for you

“I love wealth”

: Thinking without Limits Shows Ways through the Infinite Digital Internet

“I trust my world and God”

: Increasing Uncertainty and Insecurity are no Threats

“I find the hidden jewels”

: Curious and Warm-hearted People are Successful

“I show my opinion”

: “Truth, nothing but Truth” Keeps Trouble Away

“I keep my energy”

: Fighting your Personal Way on all Channels Guarantees Strength

Index

Your Philosophy can Glue the Satanic Split

In moments when we need orientation, we feel the gap between our daily life and our incomplete awareness of its foundations. Emotionally and mentally, we live in the past, but we use rather competent the new tools of the digital Internet age we got in the last few years. Most of us failed to update and harmonize the understanding of our situation, of outdated beliefs still active and the ethics now appropriate. This can hurt. Especially as hardly anybody offers an integral orientation. The complexity of our world and the difficulties to understand the latest technology prevents professional philosophers and theologians from drawing a complete theory. Strictly based on arguments and with modesty, we give ten main pillars, called ten dimensions. This offers valuable orientation and advice.

Haughty people tell proudly that they believe nothing. When they finally explain their attitude, they tell a long list of beliefs. Fact is, we have no alternative to a life based on beliefs. But we are left alone. For more than a hundred years, philosophers didn’t draft a complete philosophy covering the most important aspects of our life. Theologians preach beliefs, we cannot share anymore. And both use an arrogant language only full-time experts can understand. We want to do that better.

In this book, we introduce the concept of myths to better understand belief, mental attitudes, soul and heart concerns. The world is full of myths and we don’t realize the impact. The same way we train to use an online search engine, we must train philosophy and religion. Here is a direct and thrilling entry point into the thinking of the best and the brightest modern trends. We go there directly without detours.

Our world changed with the Internet and the digital services like Messengers, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and things like Bitcoin and Quantum Computers. These are not all issues of (the public) Internet, so we call our current knowledge-based world a “digital Internet age”. Most of us are not aware of the mental changes we made in the last twenty years or since World War II. Here we create this awareness.

Let’s face it. Some need to think about religion and philosophy daily. Others deal with these subjects from event to event and from time to time. Here we give an overview for all. The reader can start anywhere in the book and lay it aside when the thirst is satisfied.

The Satanic Split

Fifty years ago, people lived in a homogenous world. A clear majority appreciated the same music, heard the same news and most parents believed in the same education objectives. These are just a few examples of a once homogenous world. Today, we live in another world. It is split into heterogenous groups, people are more lonesome, and too many people search their identity. Imagine e.g., you believe in organic food and you want to live in a sustainable way to save the planet. Then you own a payback card for green shops. In the social network, you support politicians and lobby groups for a green policy. Very soon, about seventy to ninety percent of your information input comes from green groups and their environment. This is due to the digital Internet and its procedure, implemented everywhere, to deliver opinions you already shared! Your digital activities will be recorded by the search engines, the cookies on your device and back your arguments. After some years you might be fundamentally convinced of all green activities. This is not bad. Bad is the technology that unconsciously narrows your thinking.

Imagine, you follow religious groups, attend Christian services in your community and you meet families with the same basic Christian attitude. Then you register in religious, Christian, Internet groups and your information input is mostly from this side. The Christian groups might split up, in one group that believes in the holy word of the bible, without any interpretation, and in another that is more liberal. You will make your choice. In the next years, you will receive mostly information from the group you chose. Unconsciously, you begin to see the other groups as adversaries.

These examples show how our society currently breaks apart in different groups and how these groups become more radical by time. This is the split we are talking about. It is a split caused and accelerated by the digital Internet.

There is no doubt that this split is killing our society and our cultural identity. It may start wars, some say. We must avoid this split. This split is satanic because if it continues we risk building the basis of World War 3. From history we know that in the year 1913 suddenly World War 1 started, in a world everybody supposed to be secure and open-minded and economically dependent. It started like a game of politicians, cheered by the crowds, and ended after millions of dead people, then depressed by years of cruel war. This cannot be the perspective for our children.

Christian beliefs and theology cannot glue the people together. Because the religious groups are split, too, and unable to unify their believers. Religious groups take their beliefs from dogmas. Philosophy can glue this split because a philosopher does not write down dogmas but axioms. These are open and can be changed by everyone and whenever someone feels that other axioms are more suitable for the explanation of his or her life. We can build our own philosophy that way. With axioms philosophers build models, not some mental pressure called “the eternal truth”. Philosophy does not have the concept of sin, punishment by God and loss of your soul, if you don’t believe in a basic religious concept.

So, whatever religion we take, all of them cannot glue this terrible split of our society. It’s only philosophy that can do it because philosophy is open-minded, ready to drop or extend axioms any time.

This is not astonishing as e.g. Christian theology did not yet accept the basic human rights of all people like equality of all people and freedom for everyone, the right to live (or to die if we are very sick), the right to pursuit our happiness, etc. Philosophy does so. The constitutions of all democracies do alike.

To define our life and set up our personality, we create our own philosophy. Nobody else can do the job for us. Without such definitions, we drift in the wind of our various daily emotions. A balanced lifestyle, built on a good foundation, demands a personal philosophy. Without such a foundation, we cannot hold jobs with higher responsibility (like member of a board of directors or politician). Team members and citizen would otherwise have no confidence in our problem-solving capabilities and we would fail.

Philosophy and Religion for our Life

Despite the tremendous changes we undergo in the digital Internet age, many of us think that religion and philosophy are invariant over times and centuries. Being the holy revelation of our ethics and foundations of this world, shouldn’t these messages last forever? The words of the Bible and the philosophers like Aristotle didn’t change. We still read them in the original language or version. How can someone think that the interpretation of these holy scripts could change? These texts are true, aren’t they the truth?1

Let us research these texts and submit our question about invariant validity to the original texts. We meet e.g. Paulus (named Saulus in Hebrew). In the meeting of the apostles in the year 48 A.D., he advocated the concept (revolutionary at the time) that persons can become Christians without becoming Jews before. He was successful. His initiative changed our religious world completely. Paulus’ concept was not self-evident, as it opened a new paradigm to Christianity, the Hellenistic co-foundation of Christianity. Paulus stressed also the fact, that a new time began with Jesus. This proves that Paulus changed the interpretation of biblical texts twice. He taught that the historic books of the Bible had to be re-read with the spirit of Jesus. And in 48 A.D., he integrated Christianity and Hellenistic Philosophy.