Week 8- Assigned Reading- On Learned Ignorance by Nicholas Of Cusa

In chapter one it talks about how we do not know anything and we are trying to find out the truth. And of course they go with Socrates that in the end Socrates did not know anything. Well here is my thing on that. That there are a lot of things that we do know, I mean we are able to say that everything in this universe is made up of atoms. But at the same time there are a lot of things that we don't know or that we will never be able to find out. That is a part of life. There are things that we probably are better off not knowing like what happens to you after you die? That is something that I do not want to know. And yes i do fear that as well as everyone else fears death. You have to fear the unknown because you do not know what the unknown is made
up on. But back to the point of not knowing anything, we no that gas is a combustable product. So there are things that we do know just a lot of questions that we can't find answers to.

It then goes to talking about it is self-evident that there is no comparative relation of the infinite to the finite. Which this makes a lot of sense because this is something that we are able to know. For truth is not something more or something less but is something indivisible. I agree with that statement that he tries to make because once you have a final solution that is the final thing and therefore can not be divided or taken away because you already know it.

It then goes into talking about generation. And that God is the being of things and I do agree with that statement because generation does mean that things happen over and over again. Just like it says in the context like father like son. I mean you are going to be almost exactly like your dad whether you want to be or not. I mean you have half of his genes and then to top it off, if you live in his environment you are going to be a match with him even if you do not
think so. So i think at some point in time things will stop changing.