Well, I made all the questions of my ideas on the headline of this composition.

So now all what is left here is to take these questions one by one. And express our thinking by putting these questions on the table of philosophy. And thus explain as such ideas, like people of wisdom do. That is through thinking and creating.

Hence, I ask, Why altruism? 

Here, first of all let us indicate what do we mean by the word ‘altruism?’

The concept of Altruism comes from the Italian concept of altrui, that means someone else. And that is derived from the Latin concept, ‘alter.’ That means, other.

So, altruism is an image or idea that brings in my mind the image of Jean Paul Sartre, and his philosophy of “The Other.” That in certain points of the meaning of his thinking says, ‘I’m the other and the other is me.” A philosophy that is somehow like that famous expression of Buddha that says, “One in all and all in one.”

Now, at this point of thinking, we see that the East and the West become one through altruism. For, the Western philosophy of the other of Sartre and the oneness of Buddha of the East here, in the altruist thinking or philosophy, become ‘one oneness’ within another oneness in the oneness of the oneness of nothingness within the nothingness of somethingness.

So I ask, “Is the other I and am I the other?

Here, by making this question, we intend to penetrate deep in the human consciousness. Deep in the mysteries of the human mind. And deep in the unknown and philosophy. For at this point of thinking, we enter into the inconceivable that is only slightly perceptible. And we enter or dive in the slightly perceptible thinking that looks like ‘the imperceptible.’

And I say that or think so by withdrawing my reason from this question that ask continually my thinking mind: Can I be like the other? And can the other be like me? Can we be one in all and all in one in any way of thinking?

My answer is this.

I think that we are alike in the essence of what is essential for us.

For we express the same ideas through similar or different languages. We are made from the same elementary particles and have somehow same body shapes. And what is more important, we share the same power of the human mind.

But one here also may say, that we express different ideas, live different lifestyles and have different talents.

So, you may say that this doesn’t make us alike in any way of thinking and doing. Does it? Or doesn’t it?

I expressed above ideas that said we are alike in the essence of what is essential for us. That is the very essence of humanity. And that is based on the very raw thinking of the human kind or perception, languages and the human mind.

Now from the essence of humanity we go to what is the essential or necessary of the human essence. That is, expressing different ideas through similar or different languages, live different lifestyles and have different talents, think different and so on.

Hence,  in short, we are alike in our essence and different in what is essential to our human essence.

So I ask, “Why do we choose altruism, then?

Now, those among us, who are aware of our human meaning and our essence, are more sensitive towards the ideas and the ideals of humanity. And therefore, they are altruist because they care more of what is human. And because they feel to be more connected to the world and to others through the idea of universal love or oneness. And see the other like seeing themselves.

And so, they love the other like loving themselves. And they care of the other as much as they can, like caring of themselves.

So essentially it is the idea of love and care and awareness of universal love and universal care that make one be called, altruist and follow altruism.  That is a philosophy of loving and caring of what is human.

 

While, on the other hand, those who only are aware of what is essential. They become self-absorbed and selfish. That is, concerned only with their needs, their pleasures and what is essential to them. Not concerned with the essence of what is essential that is the very meaning of humanity. And others.

So, the latter get lost in their individual thinking, greed, talents and different vocations. And they forget what is human and why we exist. That is, to live our lives in joy and peace and harmony – in the house of love. Not make our lives miserable and curse our existence on earth by oppressing, controlling and abusing each other by holding the reins of social power.

But how does one become altruist in thinking? one may ask.

Now, hear my answer.  In altruist thinking, the universal mind is absorbed into the individual mind and it has become one’s subjectivity. That is, perception, conception, thinking, and thought.

And one’s subjectivity now has come forth in being or in connection and relation with the other by withdrawing the universal mind into the individual mind and the individual mind into the universal one through creative perception of sensitivity of thinking. So, connecting the one with all and all with one through thinking to care and caring because of love. 

Hence in altruist thinking, ‘I’m the other and the other is me. And all the people exist in one individual mind through the idea of universal mind or universal thinking. And one person exists in all through the individual mind that metamorphoses into universal mind or thinking through the idea and the ideas of humanity and of human existence.

Now here at this point, the essence of what is essential is what I call, universal thinking or mind. That is, nothingness in itself from where everything comes from to become praxis and action and objectivity. A nothingness concept into which everything goes to become part of the oneness of nothingness. An idea or ideal that forever becomes something new and different.

Hence, to perceive what is universal in the individual or particular mind means to become aware of what is human or of our human essence. 

And in interaction and interrelation of mind and minds, we perceive, conceive and bring forth in the world of creation thought and thinking through a subjective objectivity that becomes objective subjectivity of the world itself.

And here, we say that nothingness contains within itself the universal mind. That is the essence of what is essential or the essentials of the essence. And thus through awareness of our essence and of what is essential in our essence, our universal mind or being is all-positive, like Sartre said at his deed, ‘Being and Nothingness.”

 

So now the other questions why selflessness, why self-sacrificing and why do we bother about the world?

All the answers of these questions can be summed up in the essence of altruism.

So in essence, altruism is an ideal that better shows off or that better displays in being “Me and the other,” or the human ideal.

For here, the other and I show to be part of the universal oneness, where one is all and all is one. Part of the nothingness and part of our essence. That knows or that is aware of its essentials and needs.

Pure humanity and pure oneness. An idea where the far East and the far West merge into what Homer calls, ‘Mother Earth. And merge in what we call mother universe. And merge in what I call ‘Mother Nothingness.’ That contains the beyond of all what is and what is not, all universes and whatever idea or ideal that you might be able to bring into your very individual perceptive mind.

But, well, one here may ask us and say, “Gentlemen, if our universal mind is all good and all positive. Then, why do we fight with each other, why do we have prisons and prisoners, endless wars and so much evil in the world? For if it is true that we essentially are the same and part of the same universal mind or oneness, then why does all that I said happen?

My answer is thus: The world is always at strife with itself. That is, those who care of humanity against those who, blinded by greed and selfishness, intend to oppress, control and enslave those who care and those who love.

For we wrote earlier on about human beings, who are aware of only what is essential and their needs in the world. And we also wrote about human beings, who are aware of the essence of what is essential in our world. Beings who care and love of our world and our humanity.

So here in our world our human essence is in conflict with the essentials of our essence. That means, open-minded human beings, who are aware of the human essence, are in perpetual conflict with narrow-minded human beings, who all they represent and know or that want follow and support with their thinking and doing is their human essentials and their needs.

Note, greedy and selfish intelligent people also enter into the idea of narrow-mindedness here not only the ignorant. For one may know that our human essence is about FREEDOM, for example. Nevertheless, one may decide and choose through conscious thinking to take one’s freedom. And oppress or murder and so on.

Therefore, this conflictual thinking and doing that exists between our human essence and the essentials of our essence is perpetual. Because as human minds grow up, they become different minds and make different views of the world. Create different ideas and perform different actions about the little environment and the world that we live in and are part of.

And so through pettiness of the heart, greed, sickness of the individual mind or intelligent selfishness and narrow-mindedness, one diverts from the all positive, universal, natural, and harmonious mind. One diverts from goodness and from all what is called positive universality. That is our very nature as human beings in and out of ourselves and in itself.

And one diverts here from our human essence either because one is aware of our human essence and refuses to follow as such thinking. Or one is ignorant and finds what is essential as the dwelling of his existence.

As we saw above, so far I spoke of a universal and particular way of thinking that did not mention or illustrate my subjective experience in the example.

Therefore, now allow me to give you the example of my very self. Why do I stand up for a better world and fight heart and soul for our human ideals?

Since I begun opening the book of the world, my mind begun to become aware of the human essence and of what is human. So I decided through my free will to follow the values of this essence.

I saw pain and I lived pain. And life threw me a lot of bricks but I stood up firm with ideas that spoke for a better and greater world.

And as I explored our human essence, I also listened and learned about good and evil. And I understood from where and through what should one lead himself and through himself lead the world itself.

Now this pain that I saw and still see and that I live does not come from nowhere. And it comes but from those “others” who all they know and all they want is “the essentials of our essence.“

Others that are full of materialistic ideas, greed and gluttony and that got sick in their minds and thus diverted from all positive, harmonious human nature. Those others that preferred evil over good, war over peace, and cruelty over mercy and consequently they became evil or did wrong either on purpose through intelligent thinking. Or unconsciously through ignorance.

Hence, I think that as such beings need be challenged by all means and at all costs. And become aware of our human essence.

So I fight for a better world to make aware of our human essence those who are not aware of as such ideas.

I fight for a better world because I have pain deep down in my blood. And I want to give a meaning to this very pain. And to give a meaning to your pain means to find its cause and its source. So to see what inflicted this very pain in the first place. And then take action to heal it for the human sake.

For in altruist thinking, your pain is the pain of the world and the pain of the world is also your pain. 

And thus to heal your pain and the pain of the world, that you live in and love to death, means but to stand up and fight for a better world through love, human compassion and creative thinking.

Hence we see that essentially, politically and philosophically speaking, the pain of a good human then is caused by an evil other human. And so the war remains the same between our essence and what is essential of our essence.

And this war is a war between good and evil that lasts till the last breath of our spirit. Till the day that we pass away into the unknown worlds and nothingness.

So now comes the conclusion of altruism and its essence. And I think that we become or metamorphose into altruists, sacrifice ourselves and bother about the world because we are positive deep in our beings, deep in our unknown and unstudied and unsearched selves.

We believe in positivity and what is positive. And we know that good means to be in harmony with each other, and love is good and good is love, we reflect about it. And we want this form of thinking to keep prevailing in our world.

And so we fight negativity in our world by thinking and reflecting of our very positive selves as beings, who are positive and part of a greater universal self that is all positive. That is all good, all loving and all positive nature.

Therefore, there are prisons then, there are wars and there are negative persons about and around. Because of the very diversion from the positivity of our very being and our very nature in itself. For we do not know ourselves anymore. We do not know our essence anymore. And thus many of us find themselves plunged and absorbed in the essentials of our essence. And many of us do not even know why they live except eat, move and repeat.

So, true altruists fight with joy for a better world because their heart bleeds for a better world. And this very world makes them live on the edge, makes them feel selfless, pushed to self-sacrificing. And happily standing up for

true love, for life, for peace, for nature, for humanity and for goodness.

At the end, I would say that to be a true altruist takes some thinking and doing. And this thinking and doing here means but to listen and learn and create the very action of positivity from your very own individuality.

For altruism is not born from utter ignorance but rather it is born from love of knowledge and from the love of good and from the love of the essence of our humanity.