Diandra Maria Pânișoară
can make us “victims” in what we think is right and wrong. It humanizes us and gives us freedom to want to express our opinion, which is a fundamental human right as long as it does not violate the rights of those around us. What fundamentally differs between imagination and belief is the perception used in imagination over which we have control. Aristotle determines that all beliefs do not belong to us because both possess the capacity to be either true or false. These arguments seem to be related to the value of truth, which can be contradictory and paradoxical when we talk about fundamentally wrong actions, which can be explained as correct in the mind of the person who favored them, but not in society. Kant dedicated his life to the vision of transcendental idealism, which helps us to perceive the difference between what we can experience and what we cannot. According to him, we can only have knowledge through what is accessible to mankind. Kant’s rule of ethical evaluation that is widespread in philosophy expresses the need to see the humanity of fellow human beings, the right action in his regard validates the rules that apply to the majority. This way of seeing the world may require a certain conformity in actions that express the direct result of thinking. However, as noted earlier, actions and imagination are in the control of the individual, but what one believes may ultimately lie beyond their control. The content of our faith has a variable value and is formed based on concrete, epistemological and abstract factors. There are infinite theories that explain the foundations of faith, however, they can explain the personality of an individual in their respective group (Shavitt & Nelson, 1999) or can help with the individual’s belonging in society (Sears & Levy, 2003). Beliefs serve as an answer, they ground an individual’s world and explain it in order to survive in distinct settings (Roney & Sorrentino, 1995). Beliefs can preserve someone’s personality and the way that individual identifies (Baumeister, 1997). Previous theorists have concluded that people who change beliefs do not always deliberately try to achieve their representational goals. Representational beliefs try to resolve and validate the surrounding world.
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