The Age of the World Picture and Demystifying the World

The phrase "the age of the world picture" refers to the age at which a human being is interested in mundane life and appeals to natural science achievements due to his/her trust on his/her own subjective reason. Hence, he/she builds the world depending on his/her mundane understanding, will, and needs. Demystifying the world and human being’s life is the essential virtue of such an age, in the sense that he/she has no desire to think about metaphysical mysteries of his/her life, like God, death, and immortality (hereafter life), and so on, but focusing on his/her thoughts leads to the development of the mundane life. As a result, some ideas, such as humanism, relativism and humanization of ethics, humanization of truth, and hegemony of quantitative approach to the world, secularism and materialism, ignoring death, and finally atheism or agnosticism, can be considered as the fundamental characteristics of such an age. Such a human being, due to putting aside metaphysical mysteries, was involved in some significant challenges and crises, some of which are meaninglessness of life, despair and emptiness, homelessness and unsafety, poverty and loneliness, inauthenticity, denying the other and appealing to violence. The way of his/her salvation is to invite him/her to contemplate the necessity of living with such metaphysical mysteries and differentiate them from the scientific problems of life. Also, he/she should notice the inability and restriction of their own subjective reason and natural or empirical science theories regarding understanding the essence of such mysteries.