Let me try again.
To have the art of enchanting the mind of thoughts, feelings, ideas and perception we must have knowledge because there are so many and of such nature of senses.
Philosophy friend of knowledge strives after what is acceptable to God and always to act acceptable to God. There is an old saying that a person of wisdom should not try to please anyone but good and noble God.
If the way is long and indirect, wonder not at this for where the finish product is great may take a longer course.
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Barbara Brooks
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The sweetness of knowledge, the embracing of freethinking is absolute reason here there can be nothing so remote we cannot reason.
I was in a car accident, in 1984 I got some money from an insurance claim I bought a used the Encyclopaedia Britannica book collection. This was way before I had a computer. A couple of years later I came into some more extra cash I bought for five hundred dollars the Great Books of Western Civilization. This was long before I got my computer.
The idea of knowledge means the ruin and overthrow of self; for on this road self loses its own certainty. Because of that, the road can be looked on as the path of doubt, or more properly a highway of despair.
Reason finished and complete, to follow one's own conviction is certainly more than to hand oneself over to another. If we stick to a system resting on another’s opinion and prejudice, or personal conviction, one merely conceit and the other skepticism.
Laboring anything into something has not only positive significance but that becomes objective, nothing does not become something but through work. The process is twofold, purpose, and labor. One must enter into labor to succeed in attaining and finding satisfaction without requirement and without conditions. Knowledge and labor are the chains that keep us in bondage from which we cannot get away but we succeed in attaining purpose.
I was in a car accident, in 1984 I got some money from an insurance claim I bought a used the Encyclopaedia Britannica book collection. This was way before I had a computer. A couple of years later I came into some more extra cash I bought for five hundred dollars the Great Books of Western Civilization. This was long before I got my computer.
The idea of knowledge means the ruin and overthrow of self; for on this road self loses its own certainty. Because of that, the road can be looked on as the path of doubt, or more properly a highway of despair.
Reason finished and complete, to follow one's own conviction is certainly more than to hand oneself over to another. If we stick to a system resting on another’s opinion and prejudice, or personal conviction, one merely conceit and the other skepticism.
Laboring anything into something has not only positive significance but that becomes objective, nothing does not become something but through work. The process is twofold, purpose, and labor. One must enter into labor to succeed in attaining and finding satisfaction without requirement and without conditions. Knowledge and labor are the chains that keep us in bondage from which we cannot get away but we succeed in attaining purpose.
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Life is absolute idealism can only be grasped by theory, because of all the continuous dealings on earth. Wherever there is inner and outer, cause and effect, means, subjectivity-objectivity, etc., there is life.
One of the seven wise men of ancient Greek is Thales the author of the Ionic sect who introduced geometry to measure the pyramids and the distance from shore of ships at sea. Thales was born the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C. It is also believed he used calculus to estimate. Water Thales thought the supreme sustainer of life. . There are still remains of his physical geography that treats the sea, called Thalassography. The word Thalassocracy means mastery of the sea.
There is generation of philosophers the same as there is generation of plants and anything that is generated has opposition. I mean to say opposite such as just and unjust, good and evil, and the innumerable other opposites that are generated out of opposite. Each period of influence is only for a certain time as a gift of spiritual life, a virtuous consciousness. It is implicit abstract truth not actuality in the case of virtue plays the role of carrying out good.
One of the seven wise men of ancient Greek is Thales the author of the Ionic sect who introduced geometry to measure the pyramids and the distance from shore of ships at sea. Thales was born the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C. It is also believed he used calculus to estimate. Water Thales thought the supreme sustainer of life. . There are still remains of his physical geography that treats the sea, called Thalassography. The word Thalassocracy means mastery of the sea.
There is generation of philosophers the same as there is generation of plants and anything that is generated has opposition. I mean to say opposite such as just and unjust, good and evil, and the innumerable other opposites that are generated out of opposite. Each period of influence is only for a certain time as a gift of spiritual life, a virtuous consciousness. It is implicit abstract truth not actuality in the case of virtue plays the role of carrying out good.
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A decent society exists for the whole society has to do with community set outside family.
A just act must not be taken as if it was a mere job, a just act is substantial in character and universality, it lifts self out of the life of chance and change, into real and substantial universal society.
Here society must come out of indolence and unkindness into world-spirit appears all in order moving according to reason, wisdom, insight and understanding. These we must imitate and to these we will, as far as we can, conform to. Can anyone help imitating that with which is held so reverential?
It takes labor effect attaining a stage of independence with no doubt of mind. Be a servant of good that every one had better be ruled by divine wisdom dwelling within them or, by an external influence in order that we may be all as far as possible under the same just society, friends and equals.
Look back to the epoch of philosophy that took place years ago. To begin again would be to try to bring back an earlier stage. The very hypothesis of Zeno's paradoxes inquire not only what will be the consequences to opposites in relation to themselves and the many, on the hypothesis of one and many, but also what will be the consequences to each other. If likeness is or is not, what will be the consequences in either of these cases of generation and destruction of being and not being.
A just act must not be taken as if it was a mere job, a just act is substantial in character and universality, it lifts self out of the life of chance and change, into real and substantial universal society.
Here society must come out of indolence and unkindness into world-spirit appears all in order moving according to reason, wisdom, insight and understanding. These we must imitate and to these we will, as far as we can, conform to. Can anyone help imitating that with which is held so reverential?
It takes labor effect attaining a stage of independence with no doubt of mind. Be a servant of good that every one had better be ruled by divine wisdom dwelling within them or, by an external influence in order that we may be all as far as possible under the same just society, friends and equals.
Look back to the epoch of philosophy that took place years ago. To begin again would be to try to bring back an earlier stage. The very hypothesis of Zeno's paradoxes inquire not only what will be the consequences to opposites in relation to themselves and the many, on the hypothesis of one and many, but also what will be the consequences to each other. If likeness is or is not, what will be the consequences in either of these cases of generation and destruction of being and not being.
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Barbara Brooks
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A philosophical society must be framed in the most perfect manner. Thought is needed, profound thought that exalts infinitude of ideas and truth, not tiresome superficial rhetoric. Thought skillfully disposed in mind with a view to render clear and intelligible, is able to persuade others of truth, not fancy rhetorical embellishment.
All sciences require discussions of high thought and hence come loftiness of language knows how best to discover the resemblance of truth. Knowledge is proficiently disposed in mind with a view to render things clear and intelligible.
The object of knowledge is thought, a rational principle of self, whereas the other principle of self may be termed the ally of pleasures and satisfactions.
Kant supposed all knowledge reduces to opinion. Spinoza asserted knowledge was oneness of thought. Descartes’ thought knowledge as a higher sense of science. Leibniz thought it was self-sufficient individuality.
Spinoza indisputably wrote the greatest work on ethics asserted it to be oneness of thought a universal aim a chain of external relations. Socrates allegory of a chariot and charioteer implies that in the mind exist the idea of the beautiful, good and just hat are only in images.
All sciences require discussions of high thought and hence come loftiness of language knows how best to discover the resemblance of truth. Knowledge is proficiently disposed in mind with a view to render things clear and intelligible.
The object of knowledge is thought, a rational principle of self, whereas the other principle of self may be termed the ally of pleasures and satisfactions.
Kant supposed all knowledge reduces to opinion. Spinoza asserted knowledge was oneness of thought. Descartes’ thought knowledge as a higher sense of science. Leibniz thought it was self-sufficient individuality.
Spinoza indisputably wrote the greatest work on ethics asserted it to be oneness of thought a universal aim a chain of external relations. Socrates allegory of a chariot and charioteer implies that in the mind exist the idea of the beautiful, good and just hat are only in images.
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Society today the rich are honored for their money, but the true virtuous is dishonored; Today what is honored are riches is cultivated, and what is dishonored virtue is neglected.
Pythagoras reasoned every day in which each hour had a very strict rule. The morning directly after rising was set aside to recall to memory the previous day because what is to be done in the day depends chiefly on the previous day in order to find out whether the deeds in the day were done and if they were right or wrong.
Pythagoras reasoned every day in which each hour had a very strict rule. The morning directly after rising was set aside to recall to memory the previous day because what is to be done in the day depends chiefly on the previous day in order to find out whether the deeds in the day were done and if they were right or wrong.
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Socrates made up a blueprint of the perfect inner being for those who desire seeing, order, having nothing to do with any other.
For every being is provided with knowledge, and usually do not desire a larger measure of knowledge than they already possess.
Whatever we perceive either by the help of sight or hearing, or any of the other senses, we conceive something like it in our mind.
Parmenides explained this being and not being, that to be is anything that comes into being that has components, such as mind, and body and that, which is not being has no parts cannot be.
Things that move from without are mindless; but things that move from within ha being self-moving, never leaving never ceases mind like the sun everlasting everywhere traversing the whole perfect heaven is fully winged soars upward to whom that orders the whole world.
The very fact that Knowledge comes on the scene is a phenomenon the mind is a system independent the remarkable thing is it appears as self-conscious but is really the unconscious reflective mechanical sphere of feeling.
For every being is provided with knowledge, and usually do not desire a larger measure of knowledge than they already possess.
Whatever we perceive either by the help of sight or hearing, or any of the other senses, we conceive something like it in our mind.
Parmenides explained this being and not being, that to be is anything that comes into being that has components, such as mind, and body and that, which is not being has no parts cannot be.
Things that move from without are mindless; but things that move from within ha being self-moving, never leaving never ceases mind like the sun everlasting everywhere traversing the whole perfect heaven is fully winged soars upward to whom that orders the whole world.
The very fact that Knowledge comes on the scene is a phenomenon the mind is a system independent the remarkable thing is it appears as self-conscious but is really the unconscious reflective mechanical sphere of feeling.
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To consider knowledge senses most stop they only hinder the acquisition of it best when sounds, sights, feelings leave
The whole realm of the truth is the pathway of knowledge and in such truth is set forth not abstract, but consciousness or more so, virtuous consciousness.
The mind may be truly said to be like the sun, and yet not the sun, the same as knowledge and truth to be like good, but not; good has a higher honor.
In the world of knowledge the idea of good makes its appearance at a time when our minds have worked its way out of indifference and unfeeling into consciousness.
Knowledge raises a pang in the hearts of philosophers embraces freethinkers whose loves knowledge always shows the everlasting not so far from the pleasure of heaven
The whole realm of the truth is the pathway of knowledge and in such truth is set forth not abstract, but consciousness or more so, virtuous consciousness.
The mind may be truly said to be like the sun, and yet not the sun, the same as knowledge and truth to be like good, but not; good has a higher honor.
In the world of knowledge the idea of good makes its appearance at a time when our minds have worked its way out of indifference and unfeeling into consciousness.
Knowledge raises a pang in the hearts of philosophers embraces freethinkers whose loves knowledge always shows the everlasting not so far from the pleasure of heaven
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I have never fancied to be in any better than anyone else. Actually I have often wished that I were like others, My knowledge was formed by discipline that raised my mind little by little gradually to a high point life will permit me to reach. All of this knowledge is a given to all for the sake of preserving truth through generation to generation.
The art of discourse is one and the same given; in every generation, there is dialogue that finds a likeness of everything. Every written discourse is a demonstration of the likenesses that was used before. That is why we write to permeate truth of everything to which can be found.
Disputation is an art not confined to courts and congress, but is the same in everyday use of language; this is an art, not thrown down anyhow, not just mere rhetoric that comes to mind? The principle discourse in language is a living adapted language of one generation and all generations.
Zeno of Elea shows nothing moves, by showing an arrow shot into the air does not leave its place, things move in motion. This is precisely the endless meaning of what motion is three different places that, which is about to be occupied, that which has just been vacated and through all those changes, the “arrow” remains the same.
Things remain the same throughout all the changes This is motion proceeds to a place which is future and leave one which is past, yet through all the changes is present a circle of time.
The art of discourse is one and the same given; in every generation, there is dialogue that finds a likeness of everything. Every written discourse is a demonstration of the likenesses that was used before. That is why we write to permeate truth of everything to which can be found.
Disputation is an art not confined to courts and congress, but is the same in everyday use of language; this is an art, not thrown down anyhow, not just mere rhetoric that comes to mind? The principle discourse in language is a living adapted language of one generation and all generations.
Zeno of Elea shows nothing moves, by showing an arrow shot into the air does not leave its place, things move in motion. This is precisely the endless meaning of what motion is three different places that, which is about to be occupied, that which has just been vacated and through all those changes, the “arrow” remains the same.
Things remain the same throughout all the changes This is motion proceeds to a place which is future and leave one which is past, yet through all the changes is present a circle of time.
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Turn back to the epoch of philosophy that took place centuries ago. A revival as such I recommend. Zeno of Elea who thought those who see the many and not one follow no guide have opinion not knowledge. However, those who see one may be said to have knowledge not mere opinion.
Even now as disregarded as philosophy is it still it forces its way in and if given some help emerges into light. In the decline of the Republic it was that way and also the middle Ages when the Teutonic a gulf had arisen with the people and truth was no longer honored philosophy appeared.
Proving something belongs to the process of knowledge. In all spheres of science and art, it takes a considerable amount time and discipline. As the charioteer drives a pair of winged horses in the air, one of them is good and the other bad. The driving of them both gives a great deal of trouble to the charioteer who falls down if fed upon ignorance and meanness but if fed on beauty, wisdom, goodness soars upward.
Zeno in the case of one,that one has neither a beginning nor end it is eternal.
"To consider nothing, is the way of error in which the ignorant and double minded mortals wander," said Parmenides. The error is to confuse the same value to each or to distinguish them as if non- being were limited. It is a constant self-contradictory disintegrating motion. Parmenides, did not place being in sensuous things. He believed thought was identical with being. Here is a metaphorical image from Parmenides (Arist. Phys. p. 27b;31b): "Since the utmost limit of being is perfect, it resembles on every side the form of a well rounded sphere, which from its centre extends in all directions equally, for it can be neither larger or smaller in omne part or another. There is no non-being which prevents it from attaining to the like."
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Even now as disregarded as philosophy is it still it forces its way in and if given some help emerges into light. In the decline of the Republic it was that way and also the middle Ages when the Teutonic a gulf had arisen with the people and truth was no longer honored philosophy appeared.
Proving something belongs to the process of knowledge. In all spheres of science and art, it takes a considerable amount time and discipline. As the charioteer drives a pair of winged horses in the air, one of them is good and the other bad. The driving of them both gives a great deal of trouble to the charioteer who falls down if fed upon ignorance and meanness but if fed on beauty, wisdom, goodness soars upward.
Zeno in the case of one,that one has neither a beginning nor end it is eternal.
"To consider nothing, is the way of error in which the ignorant and double minded mortals wander," said Parmenides. The error is to confuse the same value to each or to distinguish them as if non- being were limited. It is a constant self-contradictory disintegrating motion. Parmenides, did not place being in sensuous things. He believed thought was identical with being. Here is a metaphorical image from Parmenides (Arist. Phys. p. 27b;31b): "Since the utmost limit of being is perfect, it resembles on every side the form of a well rounded sphere, which from its centre extends in all directions equally, for it can be neither larger or smaller in omne part or another. There is no non-being which prevents it from attaining to the like."
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The ego is a process of assimilation, from becoming to being, just as a plant draws out of itself by light; climbs out towards light, ramifying into many individuals. The plant draws from light energy, vigor, and the quality of scent, the splendor and depth of color and shape.
The ego enters into relationship with outside only in light. We become self-feeling by light the same as the plant. The ego is reflected into elf; means its existence is a complete individual, Just as the plant becomes self-like only in light; its lighting up is only in light that it is produced.
Then we exist subjectively the same way Plant Nature become-for-itself, but Plant life does not transcend to the stage of independent subjective being like us its veritable subjective unity is the unitary soul, which is set forth outside of the body and stands in relation with the outer world and remains home with self.
We and other animals possess within truly the determinateness subsistent center for self. The fully accomplished unity is mind one fine point. Its free self-movement is like light, ideally free form gravity, we spontaneously determine our place, also, we possess a voice, which displays our self-movement as a free vibration within self; a self-individualizing relationship to the outside world. Above all our individuality, which determines self is universal, abiding preserving, having feelings.
The ego enters into relationship with outside only in light. We become self-feeling by light the same as the plant. The ego is reflected into elf; means its existence is a complete individual, Just as the plant becomes self-like only in light; its lighting up is only in light that it is produced.
Then we exist subjectively the same way Plant Nature become-for-itself, but Plant life does not transcend to the stage of independent subjective being like us its veritable subjective unity is the unitary soul, which is set forth outside of the body and stands in relation with the outer world and remains home with self.
We and other animals possess within truly the determinateness subsistent center for self. The fully accomplished unity is mind one fine point. Its free self-movement is like light, ideally free form gravity, we spontaneously determine our place, also, we possess a voice, which displays our self-movement as a free vibration within self; a self-individualizing relationship to the outside world. Above all our individuality, which determines self is universal, abiding preserving, having feelings.
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Here I am trying to unscramble all this information I feel a need to thank the members of this forum for being here I would never have been able before who knows where this will lead.
Courage is universal saving power of opinion about real and false dangers. Under all circumstances courage through pleasure or pain, or under the influence of fear preserves, and does not lose this bravery. It is a mightier than any soda or lye; or by sorrow, fear, and desire, the mightiest of all other solvents far washing the mind.
Courage is universal saving power of opinion about real and false dangers. Under all circumstances courage through pleasure or pain, or under the influence of fear preserves, and does not lose this bravery. It is a mightier than any soda or lye; or by sorrow, fear, and desire, the mightiest of all other solvents far washing the mind.
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Dear Barbara,
I don't know what I contribute by reading what you write, but you always give me something to think about. And so, I thank you. That said, are you attempting to unscramble things? My impression was that your efforts were to complicate the picture - which is not necessarily a bad thing. Myself, I realize, I have a tendency to dismiss the complexities - to search for fundamentals, like edge pieces in a jigsaw - put them in place first, and then fill in the middle later, or not as the case may be.
mb.
I don't know what I contribute by reading what you write, but you always give me something to think about. And so, I thank you. That said, are you attempting to unscramble things? My impression was that your efforts were to complicate the picture - which is not necessarily a bad thing. Myself, I realize, I have a tendency to dismiss the complexities - to search for fundamentals, like edge pieces in a jigsaw - put them in place first, and then fill in the middle later, or not as the case may be.
mb.
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Barbara Brooks
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Mark,
I confess before writing in this forum I drove people crazy about philosophy. I could not help it. Now I hardly ever mention philosophy outside the forum.
In my journals, you will find the complexity of my life exposing my self-doubts, mistakes, humiliations, contradictions, and wrong projections they are all reported, in my journals. I focused totally on my self and my feelings, a great wealth of issues for analysis. Deep in my heart are prose of rich sentimental material that captures what is going on around me and how I responded.
A journal is different from a philosophical speculative thinking type of writing, nothing like it.
Before I studied I would write in my journal how life prevailed over my purpose like the struggle of division or like watching an archer pushing and pulling the bow at the same time, one hand pushes and the other pulls.
I confess before writing in this forum I drove people crazy about philosophy. I could not help it. Now I hardly ever mention philosophy outside the forum.
In my journals, you will find the complexity of my life exposing my self-doubts, mistakes, humiliations, contradictions, and wrong projections they are all reported, in my journals. I focused totally on my self and my feelings, a great wealth of issues for analysis. Deep in my heart are prose of rich sentimental material that captures what is going on around me and how I responded.
A journal is different from a philosophical speculative thinking type of writing, nothing like it.
Before I studied I would write in my journal how life prevailed over my purpose like the struggle of division or like watching an archer pushing and pulling the bow at the same time, one hand pushes and the other pulls.
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mark black
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Barbara,
Me too - forever banging on about issues related in some way to the future of humankind, or lack thereof. I've lost friends over it - and then I got the internet at home and started contributing regularly, I hardly talk about it in the real world. In some ways it's cathartic, and in others frustrating. I think I have a pretty good understanding of things, but because it's cathartic everyone want to talk and no-one listens. So, I get it off my chest but I might as well be howling it into the wind.
mb.
Me too - forever banging on about issues related in some way to the future of humankind, or lack thereof. I've lost friends over it - and then I got the internet at home and started contributing regularly, I hardly talk about it in the real world. In some ways it's cathartic, and in others frustrating. I think I have a pretty good understanding of things, but because it's cathartic everyone want to talk and no-one listens. So, I get it off my chest but I might as well be howling it into the wind.
mb.