Origo

THE LOCATION OF ULTIMACY

I'm intrigued by the sociological idea of "the location of ultimacy." The "location of ultimacy" is where one finds his or her ultimate standard or source of philosophical truth. Every thinking person must decide his or her "location of ultimacy," and then based on that presupposition endeavor to answer four questions:

The question of ontology: What is the nature of existence and being?
The question of epistemology: What forms of knowledge are reliable?
The question of ethics: What is right and what is wrong?
The question of teleology: What is the purpose and meaning of existence?

We will answer each of these questions differently depending upon whether our "location of ultimacy" is in self, human reason, the laws of physics, or in God. Where is our starting point?