Clean Slate vs. Re-Inventing the wheal

In humanities classes I have been told that each person has to find truth for themselves. I think this is true in the sense that no one can or should tell anyone what to believe, but I don't think that we should advocate that everyone re-invent the wheal.

There have been great philosophers over the years, who have pondered all of the great issues. I wonder if I could ever add anything to what they thought. But we will never know, because there works are not collected into one great whole.

What I would like to see is all the reasons to agree or disagree with different ideas from the great thinkers. And, the present day internet viewers could vote on the ideas, so that best ideas when to the top.

For instance you would have reasons to believe that there is a God from Leonardo Di Vinci and reasons to not believe in God from Michelangelo. I guess they weren't really only philosophers, you would also have quotes from philosophers, and people from out day.

I do not think that each generation should have to re-invent the wheal. I think that we should collect all of the great or original writing over time, and have it all cross-referenced, and indexed, and sorted out into reasons to agree or disagree with different positions.

For some reason people resist my efforts to better understand the logic behind the conclusions that people come to. I don't know if it is because debates have been such a waste of time that they don't want to go through the process of analizing their own reasons to agree or disagree with their conclusions. They tell me things like, you can not find truth, and every generation must find their own truth. This is stupid. I am not trying to find truth, I am trying to help peoples organize the reasons for and against what they believe. The clean slate belief is stuipid, because we can't have every generation re-invint the wheal.