Sem. John Raven C.

Angeles Reflection#2
Philosophy II Epistemology

Union
Subjectively speaking, I might say that world can be said as world of union. As the

academe accentuate that union can be defined as two objects in conformity and in harmonious

agreement. Everything has relation with another which can provide a further determnation of a

thing. Human as we are can be a concrete corroboration, in scientific realm, man is a union of

different cells, in a philosophical and religious domain suffice to say that human is a union of

matter and form, and soul and body.

In similar context, the term union regarding human cannot just be confined and be

restricted to its origin and composition, man is living in the world of union in the sense that

man’s ability should be in union with its object, his intellect must be in union with the truth in

which we are inevitably yearning for, his heart must be in union with virtues or good.

Wherefore, union is one of the domain which man has been inevitably situated with. And his or

her intellect must be in union with his or her heart to have a great vision and experience of God.

The ultimate union that we should pursue and aim is the union with God, which connotes

union of our intellect and will to charity. As I go along to my oddysey, I have been acquainted

with numerous integration, I integrated myself with apparent friends, habits which I thught I will

become a better person, wherefore, I just realized those were petty, because unite not myself to

the real friend, to the real object of my very self whom I was refusing who is God whom every

truth and goodness are emanating from.