Faith In Letters To Menoeceus And Letter To Herodotus

The Unseen Faith by definition is the firm belief in something in which there is complete trust or no proof. The underlying concept of faith stays the same throughout variations of the definition in different parts of society. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition contained the most transversal explanation, it refers to faith as a belief not only in a God but also to a person, duty, or idea. Faith is a concept that is believed in your heart and can be described in individual interpretation from prior experiences. In Letter to Menoeceus and Letter to Herodotus, Epicurus describes how one can differently view faith: with question because of lack of proof or with the understanding that God knows all. Although the difference in the definitions of faith are minimal, only really changing who or what you are trusting. Faith in a person is the love and trust in their judgement. But, a faith that many people know is religious; the firm
In terms of the scientific view of Epicurus man should only proportion belief to empirical evidence and logic. This logic assumes without proof of a higher of the heavens there simply cannot be one. Man lives through faith and gains anxiety when they cannot understand or see the object of their focus. “Beyond bodies and space there is nothing which by mental apprehension or on its analogy we can conceive to exist” (Epicurus 87). The weakness of faith is that is impossibility to have proof of the things we have faith in, the impossibility to fully understand the topic in which we are giving complete dedication. Comparatively if man followed God with no question our understanding of him and what he stands for would decrease more and more every day, even the idea of questioning the situation would put man in a frenzy of anxiety. The downfall is that man would be agreeing to let go their goal of knowledge to please a faith that they don’t even