The plight of a flock of pigeons—the weakest perhaps, and the worst pigeon of the flock controls and wastes all the grain as he pleases. Moral philosophy, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing; namely, that science which teaches all humans their duty and the reasons of it.  The nature of the human frame implies that it is God’s will for us to be happy in this life as well as in the next. Virtue is doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Allegiance to God’s will and a desire for everlasting happiness are sufficient grounds of moral obligation after finding that such obligation made persuasive by the prospect of reward. We should carry out those actions which promote the general happiness and avoid those which diminish it. Promoting general happiness requires paying attention to the general consequences of our actions. The general consequence of any action may be estimated by asking what would be the consequence if the same sort of actions were generally permitted. #RyaPhillippe 1 of 10

No special faculty is required to enable us to have moral knowledge. However, some do have a moral sense or an intuitive perception of right and wrong, and other innate and instinctive capacities. Nonetheless, all that is required for the foundation of morality is that each human have the wit to see that certain actions are beneficial to themselves. Then the sentiment of approbation that naturally arises when these actions benefit one will continue to accompany one’s perception of these actions when they benefit someone else. This the custom of approving certain action is begun, and children, who learn everything by imitating their elders, carry it on. Some people believe that God distained (certain to me a particular fate) his human creation for a future state and that he acquainted human beings with their destiny. If these possibilities are granted, then the need for miracles is clear, for they are the certification of revelation. The credibility of the revelation hangs, therefore, on the issue of whether miracles are genuine. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 10

Intuition is immediate apprehension. Apprehension is used to cover such disparate states as sensation, knowledge, and mystical rapport. Immediate has as many senses as there are kinds of mediation: It may be used to signify the absence of inference, the absence of causes, the absence of the ability to define a term, the absence of justification, the absence of symbols, or the absence of thought. Given this range of uses, nothing can be said about intuition in general. Instead, it is necessary to pick out those principal meanings of the term which have played the most important roles in philosophical controversy and to discuss each individually. Four principal meanings of intuition may be disguised: Intuition as unjustified true belief not preceded by inference; in this (the commonest) sense an intuition means a “hunch.” The existence of hunches is uncontroversial and not of philosophical interest. Intuition as immediate knowledge of truth a proposition, where immediate means not preceded by inference. This is a philosophically important sense, since philosophers have found it puzzling that one can have knowledge, and thus justified belief, without having made oneself aware through the process of inference of any justification for this belief. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 10

In psychology, we try to return from psychologism to principle of polarity. Psychologism tends to use the term “mental,” and it has a negative connotation. The source of error is to mistake what is mental for what is merely vital (and, in the spirit of “polarity,” what is natal for what is merely mental). There is a distinguished difference between mechanical and vital processes on consciousness. The mechanical is publicly observable, and the vital indirectly observable, but consciousness escapes observation by the methods applicable to the other processes: consciousness “punctuates” the vital process and is discontinuous. Our knowledge depends on the speed of these punctuations. God is the limiting case who grasps the whole time process instantaneously; for him all punctuations are one. As that, our knowledge catches eternity in the fleeting moment, which is both temporal and eternal. At the base of this theory of perception is the notion of imagined movement. Touching being the basic sense, all perception depends on our ability to trace the object in the imagination. Our theoretical physics, in which our main interest is our perception of space and time (space time being a unity in polarity), can best be understood if approached through this theory of perception. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 10

Intuition as immediate knowledge of a concept here roughly, knowledge which does not entail ability to define the concept. Intuition as nonpropositional knowledge of an entity—knowledge that may be a necessary condition for, but not identical with, intuitive knowledge of the truth of propositions about the entity. Miracles must be exceptions to Universal experience or they would not be miracles. The real issue is whether there is a test for the reliability of witness who report an event that necessarily only they could have experienced. We adduce evidences of the existence of God. The bones and muscles of human beings, animals, and their insect equivalents, are of special interest, for the fitting together of joints and the adaptation of muscles are mechanisms which imply most forcefully a designing intelligence. The chemical aide of physiology does not interest some much, for chemical action does not usually suggest the work of a divine mechanic. The eye, in its various parts and the combination of these parts and their adaptation to function as an instrument of sight is a natural mechanism, and the eye alone, should suffice to convince us of the existence of the divine intelligence that designed it. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 10

The evidence drawn from nature, in addition to establishing the existence of God, permits us to infer certain of his characteristics. Because God has a man, he must be a person. That there is a single intelligence at work is shown by the uniformity of the divine plan, as it is applied to all the parts of the World. Furthermore, God’s goodness is shown both by the fact that most contrivances are beneficial and by the fact that pleasure has been made an animal sensation. The distinguishing mark of a human being is self-consciousness, and the moral aim of life is development. The driving force behind this development is the individual’s sense of limitation. An important mode of moral action is self-sacrifice, as a genuine diminishing of one’s possessions or powers. The spirit has manifested in the conscious direction of one’s impulses, which represents moral maturity. We display a negative consciousness, in which nature and spirit are reconciled, in the sense that our consciousness has successfully turned impulses into moral habits, thus freeing itself for higher moral tasks. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 10

This sense of intuition is exemplified by a sense of perceptions, considered as products of a cognitive faculty distinct from the faculty of forming judgments concerning the entity sensed; sometimes, it is best not to tell people that you love them because they will get scared and think that you have designs on them or you want something from them. Frankly, some people are afraid and suspicious of love; therefore, you love such people without telling them. Intuition of universals, or of such insensible particulars as time and space—intuitions that are necessary conditions of our intuitive knowledge of priori truths is a way of being that transforms everything around you because of the radiation of that energy. It happens of its own. We do not have to do anything, and we do not have to call it anything. Love is the energy that silently transfigures every situation. The mystical or inexpressible intuition that, unlike sense perceptions and intuitions of universals, do not make possible knowledge of the truth propositions about the entities intuited—such intuitions are the mystic’s intuition of God. In the energy field of love, we are surrounded with love, and that bring gratitude. We are thankful for our life and for all the miracles of life. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 10

Intuitive understanding progressively unfolds and we have the ability to perceive the thoughts and feelings of others on a non-verbal level. Nonverbal communication with others becomes possible and commonplace. We may assume that, although these different sources furnish contributions in all individuals, they are not all equally strong in all persons. Sensory intuitions are not really cases of knowledge at all, and they are not really mental events, but merely physical one. Sense perceptions is in principal nonessential to attaining complete knowledge, although it is mysteriously necessary in practice. If a child, by virtue of his faculty of sensory intuition, can see that a physical object O has sensory quality Q by simple, uncaused act, prior to acquiring the ability to express this fact in language, then why cannot the same child see with his mind’s eye that every event has a cause and, on the basis of this prelinguistic intuitive knowledge, check the correctness of conventions cornering the words “cause” and “effect”? The influence of sense perception is a special, unanalyzable mental act correlated with certain modifications of sense organs, makes it difficult to question this presupposition. Sense perceptions is a clear example of our ability to know facts without having the ability to express them. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 10

To know what one is saying, in certain cases, to know what one says is true is a possession of intuitive knowledge that dispenses with the notion of intuitive faculties. In the case of sensory intuition, the process of acquiring intuitive knowledge is simply the occurrence of certain sensations in a person who knows a language that contains expression whose utterance speakers of the language that contains ways of describing these sensations (that is, contains expressions whose utterance speakers of the language are conditioned to correlate with occurrences of these sensations). Although I cannot, of course, express (or communicate or put into words) the experience that I had, and hence cannot supply you with reasons for believing the p, I am nevertheless entitled to believe that p solely on the strength of that experience. Again, God’s perfect simplicity—his identity with his own attributes—is held to make it impossible truly to apply any predicate to him, and thus to know any true propositions about him. However, aside from the general difficulties in the notion of private language, private criteria of justification is an intrinsically paradoxical notion. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 10

 One can no more have private rules for justifying beliefs than one can have private rules for justifying actions. A criminal has no greater claim on our sympathy if he proclaims that his private ethical code differs from ours, and a believer in untestable beliefs has no greater claim on our attention when he says that his epistemological code is not ours. The only men and women our Lord will use in His building enterprises are those who love Him personally, passionately, and with great devotion—those who have a love for Him that goes far beyond any of the closet relationships on Earth. When God inspects us with His searching and refining fire, will He detect that we have built enterprises of our own on the foundation of Jesus? Since you have not seen a flying saucer, you have no reason to believe that there are flying saucers; but I have seen one, and so I do believe in them. Here we seem to be justifying a belief solely on the basis of private experience. (If I saw a flying saucer, then there are flying saucers to be seen.)  Even though you cannot see God right now and cannot understand what He is doing, you know Him. #RyanPhillippe 10 of 10