But before I could reject empiricism and or rationalism, I needed to spend plenty of time going as deep as I could into both approaches and to see if there were any flaws. Well, to some degree with Spinoza it was easy to see the flaws, since some were obvious and some were pointed out by later philosophers. Leibniz was more difficult to deal with. There are no flaws but it just does not click. The problems with John Locke are the same flaws that are a part of any of the empirical schools like Hume. [The statement is often used as a counter-example to empiricism: the knowledge that an object cannot be both entirely blue and entirely green in the same location at the same time is known a priori, meaning it is known through reason or definition, rather than through empirical observation An extreme empiricist might argue that all knowledge originates solely from sensory experience. The counter-example challenges this by presenting a truth that seems certain and universal, yet is not derived from repeated external testing. Obviously I was going to need some kind of Kantian approach --- or Hegel. Later I learned about the intuitionist school of thought [G.E. Moore, Prichard, Michael Huemer.]]Kant would not agree with direct knowledge because the object you see causes you to see it. But it is thatfact that your perception that is caused is the problem--causality is not percieved. It is a priori. You have to already know about causality before you can believe that you are seeing an object.] There is something good to be learned from all these schools of thought. But my conclusion is that learning Torah, Gemara, Rashi and Tosphot has universal objective value for all human beings. I have to conclude that learning Torah and private conversation with God are better than democracy and capitalism and communism and pretty much beat every other proposed solutionBut back to my original questions. This is complex. There are reasons to think that this question is complex.First question "Test". Are you worthy of learning Torah? Perhaps some person has joined some cult that tries to turn people to a evil path and by that has come into the category of those that are not allowed to repent and are prevented from repenting from Heaven.