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Logic
Concerning the rules of Logic and Reason; the evidence of evidence and proof of the system for logical and reasonable belief.In a recent conversation with a companion of mine, we discussed ethics and morality. My opposition made the claim that anything that was done for the sole sake of pleasure was immoral, on the grounds that it -- inevitably -- would lead to unhappiness.Read more…Up in Smoke
Eva patiently waited for her stepbrother, Robert, to end his drone about the money he was to get from the will – something about opening a business with other people’s money and having the bank foreclose on some recalcitrant properties. I didn’t seem fair that Robert would inherit everything except the contents of the old house, but after all, she had to remind herself that she qualified only as a stepdaughter. Dad’s passing did not seem like losing someone she ove, but rather gaining a lump in her heart that wouldn’t go away.Read more…Common Audience
The witness of the common audience is an illusion created by certain individuals as they control and occupy the thought processes of others.In the same manner that no two or more human beings have identical finger prints or DNA programs, no two or more human beings can share the exact same thought, or feeling or experience without direct or indirect influence by a certain individual or set of individuals that create the illusion of a united conscious existence in this physical life on earth.I believe that as every individual is unique and separate in his/her consciousness of himself/herself within the crucible of the identity within, so also is the individual unique and separate in his/her active earthly perception of the reality being generated around him/her through the eyes of that single and absolute identity.Read more…Ethics: More Than Just Right and Wrong
IntroductionThe following is a piece on ethics and morality. Many of my works tend to be in the area of Applied Ethics, such as on matters of Vegetarianism, Peace, Sexuality, and Abortion. However, these are issues in the realm of Applied Ethics.Read more…The Greek Sphinx: A Demon of Death and Esoteric Wisdom
The Sphinx is best described as a symbol of “arcane wisdom” (Olderr 126), and wicked power in ancient Greece around 1200 BCE. Her disposition is depicted by the mythical story associated with her, specifically, her interactions with Oedipus . The Sphinx had also existed much earlier with other meanings in cultures such as Egypt.Read more…Should We Enlighten the Ignorant Hoardes?
Many say that many a population has surrendered their minds to the Television Set and for the most part it is an unfortunate truth indeed. Should the enlightened teach those who do not wish to be taught and closed their minds? Many believe those who understand should be out in force to assisting the oppressed masses, however those who have often find themselves targets of the same.Read more…What Makes a Person Creative or Brilliant VS Intelligent or Smart?
Often we consider an individual or person a creative mind or creative person. Yet in common use language that can mean quite a lot. A creative person who solves problems, which are important to us, can be considered a possessor of a brilliant mind.Read more…What Separates Humans from Animals?
Human Beings are an interesting species in that they believe somehow they are special, that their God created them in his image and they are more divine than other animals on the Planet. We have heard all the reasons why humans are better or different. That they can think, plan, dream, reason and have choice?Read more…Eastern Culture or Western Culture, Which is Better
As we see the changing of the guard of the Worlds greatest civilizations from the United States to China or India we see history repeating itself as it has so many times in the human endeavors written history. It was not much more than 200 years ago when Great Britain was the greatest nation in the World. They kept the Great in their name but the United States clearly carried the choice after that.Read more…Problems With Scientific Forums Online
Have you ever happened across an online forum discussing a scientific or technology topic? Generally the first post is very interesting and perhaps as you read down the thread you find many interesting points of contention and tid bits of brilliance. Then after you are done, you realize that you spend most of your time reading thru personal attacks, negative comments and off topic or irrelevant subject matter.Read more…Versus Culture
Culture is essentially a misnomer; it is a subverted expression or an undermined one by the standards of what it implies. Culture is synonymous with being civilized, when actually culture, in the aim of its virtue, is a term for a long association with civilization and not civilization exactly. Culture, like sex, is a symptomatic word.Read more…The Question of Rights
When it comes to the question of rights, it seems that there are a variety of diversed opinions on the matter. As you go from social issue to social issue, encompassing the political and ethical implications, one will find that there are different dispositions, each holding to the idea that their idea of rights is the correct one. For example, in the case of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice, on the issue of abortion.Read more…No Implication Theory
Approval in society has almost become mandatory. We somehow need to be understood perfectly by those whom we associate ourselves with. So much so, there is protocol to follow for every occasion.Read more…"Man" A Wild Beast
Complex Of ThinkingPreface It may be unusual to say that the most perfect theories and concepts of the world are complex ones. Man himself is a complex being that has nothing to do with simplicity. Gratification acquired by struggle is just like a wild goose chase.Read more…Empathetically Empathizing Our Enemies
The human race is finding that the repeating of history is not working with regards to killing our own species. Although only one-percent of all the humans who have live on the planet in recent recorded history of 2000 years have been killed in a war; we still see the tit for tat, reciprocal responses which seem to transcend the generations. The best way to achieve political will if in fact you are willing to wait, is to make them weak thru gifts or making their lives too easy, thus taking away their need to fight for their rights.Read more…The Concept of the Sublime in Eighteenth Century Philosophy
The development of the concept of the sublime as an aesthetic quality distinct from beauty was first brought into prominence in the eighteenth century in the writings of Anthony Ashley Cooper (third earl of Shaftesbury) and John Dennis, in expressing an appreciation of the fearful and irregular forms of external nature, and Joseph Addison’s synthesis of Cooper’s and Dennis’ concepts of the sublime in his Spectator, and later the Pleasures of the Imagination,. All three Englishmen had, within the span of several years, made the journey across the Alps and commented in their writings of the horrors and harmony of the experience, expressing a contrast of aesthetic qualities.John Dennis was the first to publish his comments in a journal letter published as Miscellanies, in 1693, giving an account of crossing the Alps where, contrary to his prior feelings for the beauty of nature as a "delight that is consistent with reason", the experience of the journey was at once a pleasure to the eye as music is to the ear, but "mingled with Horrours, and sometimes almost with despair.Read more…Privilege - Alfred Lee Loomis and Hecateus
ALFRED LEE LOOMIS:Privilege sometimes leads to productivity and creativity through community efforts such as this man made possible at his Tuxedo Park mansion. The community he created included the likes of Einstein, Fermi and Heisenberg. The things they studied helped develop many technologies and lead to the Manhattan Project.Read more…Joseph Bonaparte and The New Jersey Devil
Joseph Bonaparte and The New Jersey Devil:“Commodore Stephen Decatur was an American naval hero in the early nineteenth century. According to legend, he visited the Hanover Mill Works to inspect his cannonballs being forged. While there, he visited a firing range and sighted a flying creature flapping its wings.Read more…Star-Fire Ceremony
The Templar flag Columbus and da Gama traveled under was the dominant economic (and therefore if for no other reason) force in the three centuries before they set sail. Not just in Europe as we have shown, but in the entire world, these progeny of the Phoenician Brotherhood ended feudal socio-political strangleholds and opened the way for new possibilities. For these reasons and the eventual weakening of the church influence and Inquisitions (though that is what the church started against THEM!Read more…Purpose To Life
There is no God.Belief is a stray sentiment; it functions furiously around its determination to survive. If it is healthy, it is impenetrable, if it is not, it is unknowingly so.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Philosophy category
- What is Creation? - By: Stacey T Pollock
A personal perception of creation. - History of Kabbalah: Rabash - Baal HaSulam's Son and Successor - By: Bnei Baruch
Rabash (1906 - 1991) was the last great Kabbalist to attain the spiritual world individually. In our times only a group of people can do this, and Rabash's books are indispensable guides for one who develops spiritually today. - Passion for my Nation “Nepal” - By: Kshitize Agrawal
These voices and these songs of the Nepalese people altogether seem to re- quicken the cosmic pulsation. - An Amazing, Hazy Look Into The Future - By: Geoff Howard
Sometimes we all sit and think. Sometimes we doodle with a pen. Do we ever look in depth at what we are thinking? - Simple Words - By: Julie Pierce
The words, the thoughts, the processes go on and on.As simple as it may seem to me I tend to feel that all words have their own meaning and not always the dictionary form.A simple word takes the form of many other words as each individual person who hears it puts it through a transformation process. - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Web - By: Sandeep Tiwari
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. The probability of that obviously is very low but laws of probability have often been known to falter at the crucial test of reality. For example, there is a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually comes up with the complete works of Shakespeare. - What Is Destiny? Is There Some Thing Called Free Will? - By: Ashok Kumar Gupta
One of the greatest and everlasting debates of humanity has been about the role of destiny in the lives of human beings. There was a time when it was almost an accepted fact of life that each and every event was governed by destiny of human beings. Astrology was considered a science. - Culture and Knowledge - By: Lance Winslow
In eastern Cultures the passing of thought was considered valuable, so much in fact that even to this day members of those cultures respect their elders and listen to their advice. The passing of such thoughts and concepts and philosophies is of extreme value. The Christianity religion and its followers take those stories in the bible literally, almost to an absolute truth. - Desire is the First Step - By: Lance Winslow
When a member of a species determines it wants something a thought is born, which triggers a desire and thus starts the brain into a cycle innovation and strategy. If it is hunger in a Bald Eagle it means flying over the river to catch a Salmon. If it is a tourist who is cold it means going in and buying a sweatshirt. - DNA, Fiction and Society; How it Affects Thought - By: Lance Winslow
A book called the Seven Daughters of Eve by Richard Sykes is worthy of a read and talks about what we have learned about the flow of human beings populations through DNA research. Thus it is safe to say that certain members of our species have developed differently and in different ways, meaning the brain also learns differently. As Scientists look at different human brains while doing various tasks and watch which areas light up with energy as it works through these different thoughts and tasks we are finding just how unique and different each mind really is.