Before I answer your questions I need to first give something of a definition to the term"understanding".
In my own understanding; to understand, or to comprehend, is to infer meaning from what is agreed upon, either by a group of people or a person, to be
fact.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
Do we ever truly understand all the problems we face?
No, not until it is all over and we are free from having to deal with it and are therefore able to take an objective viewpoint, distant from the
suffering of the relevant problem. The issue then arises that we are constantly hailed with a barrage of problems all throughout our lives, which does
not cease until we die.
Which then raises the question, do we ever truly understand what's going on in our lives?
Or do we feign knowledge and claim an infinite insight into the changing world we live in?
Speaking of which:
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
Is that a realistic possibility to ever 100% know everything that's bad with society... and to know why it's not how it should be?
No, it is possible to be aware of such problems of society; but never definitively know and never know all 100% of issues. This is due to the
constantly changing 'amorphous blob' that is society, for as long as we refuse to agree with each other, society will change and warp how it is made
and what is unacceptable.
Such as witch-hunts being once acceptable, which are now considered rather inhumane atrocities.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
Is this some fault of human condition?
Do we ever know?
Are we to always try to seek for the truth and then to be pushed back from having it? What is this understanding?
It is, vicariously, a fault of the human condition. However, it is more directly the fault of humanity as a whole, as a group of animals, rather than
some intrinsic fault of the human psyche.
We assume we know, and that is all we will ever need in order to drive some sort of progress, as animals. This issue then becomes "What is truth and,
or, knowledge?", which is a bit of a meandering question to answer, hence why I will refrain from it.
The issue in the third question lies deeper, it lies in human emotion. Do you really want to be fully aware of the sheer number of casualties of
children in third world countries due to a lack of medicine and nutritional food? If so, would you be able to survive having someone tap you on the
shoulder and inform you every time one of those children died? What if instead of being simply informed, you got to see it, every time; the loss, the
fear, the sadness, the hatred.
The issue is not that we don't care, and not that we don't understand how horrible and prevalent these issues are in society, it is due to us being
limited by our humanity to only being able to stomach these issues for so long before we become so hardcore that we lose our humanity all together.
As such, we must push ourselves backwards from understanding everything all at once, because we can't even handle understanding something as simple
as whatever reasoning there may be for the deaths of people around the world without the threat of losing that which makes us human.
This is the understanding that it is our humanity that drives us to be better than the animals around us, and that without it we are no better than
the sheep in the herd.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
How are we ever going to progress as a humanity if we don't understand?
As I mentioned, society will be constantly warping until we are able to progress when we all do understand. Not you and me, but all of us.
Every single one.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
What is understanding? What do we seek to know?
We seek to understand, and subsequently know, all that we do not currently understand or know.
As mentioned by Tenth, above, it is an issue of subjectivity.