As for me, reality means everything that surround us; we live in the reality every day but we don’t actually have the idea of its existence.
Philosophy had given many great thoughts on reality, but I consider the Empiricism works for me the most.
Empiricism, in philosophy, the view that all concepts originate in experience, that all concepts are about or applicable to things that can be experienced, or that all rationally acceptable beliefs or propositions are justifiable or knowable only through experience.
People live in the world experiencing everything, eventually they form their own wills; so the reality is really existed.
However, it is said that one theory can never be true unless it can be proved false. To better understand the senses and experiences, I want to look at this empiricism concept on the other side, which shifts the perspectives to the question: before we can experience anything, we have to determine whether the world physically exists. It had been discussed for centuries because it’s relevant to all the branches; it’s the essence of all the following theories and schools because none of those will exist without the world’s existence.
I surmise that the reality is existed thus derived the so-called the world view.
I believe that the world view contains something more than scientific information. It is a crucial regulative principle of all the vital relationships between man and social groups in their historical development. With its roots in the whole system of the individual and society’s spiritual needs and interests, deter mined by human practice, by all man’s accumulated experience, the world-view in its turn exerts a tremendous influence on the life of society and the individual.
The world-view is not only the content, but also the mode of thinking about reality, and also the principles of life itself. An important component of the world-view is the ideals, the cherished, and decisive aims of life. The character of a person’s notion of the world, his world-view, facilitates the posing of certain goals which, when generalized, form a broad plan of life, ideals, notions of wellbeing, good and evil, beauty, and progress, which give the world-view tremendous power to inspire action.
The reality is real; although some believed that the world we live in every day is somewhat a mental belief, which was comprised of thoughts from all directions and the underlying regulations by all wise-men. It appears that the world was actually come up by us, the very creature that lives inside of this “imaginary world”. Whenever it comes to existence, relativity definitely can’t be avoided because it demonstrates how people view the existence; whether it’s from a human point of view or a universe point of view.
Scientific information takes a relatively huge big part in the “world view”.
In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers. This was the theory of special relativity. It introduced a new framework for all physics and proposed new concepts of space and time. It’s quite confusing when linking philosophy to science; most of the scientific theories were hypothesized by someone first, and the proving experiments took place that will decide its authenticity; at the end of the experiment people will be able to know whether it’s true or false. As the result, I assume the reality really exists firstly, so the world view is working truly as well, which turns out that all the thoughts and behaviors occur within human society are authentic and this can go backward proving the world is real.
With the premises of world’s real existence along with “we came up with the world” theory, can we manage to say and do everything we want?
In terms of the freed mind and action, the free will would be a qualifiable word to indicate the contents. As for Christians, God dignifies us with free will, the power to make decisions of our own rather than having God or fate predetermine what we do. Consider what the Bible teaches. God created humans in his image. Unlike animals, which act mainly on instinct, we resemble our Creator in our capacity to display such qualities as love and justice. Nonetheless, one is still governed and controlled by lots of outer factors such as moral laws, government laws, relationship laws, implicit workplace rules, etc. Why can’t we manage our words and behaviors under most circumstances? I believe that we’re bestowed with free-will, but as we grow up and interact with other individuals who also possess free-will, then our free-will will be compromised, which somehow violates the definition of free-will. Consequently, people are going to have to live by rules. In conclusion, I personally don’t hold the opinion of humans possessing free-will; what we were born with will eventually be descended into human-rights or other manifestations.
The reality is real and why it’s call “real-ity”; people live in this reality with limitations, which affects our natural-born free-will. But our pursuit of freedom and free right have never stopped. This is reasonable because we came up with the world at last.
Resources:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/empiricism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialectical-materialism/ch01-s02.html