A Philosophy of Mind

[Barbara Brooks]

A philosopher does not regard its art as its own pleasure but always the happiness of the people and therefore they must be paid in one of three modes, either money, honor, or duty, must be laid upon them to induce them to keep uo their labor.

The musician, the doctor artist of any sort should not profit more than their skill; and this should be a standard law and do not exceed it. Talent falls on the side of good. the end of every art accomplished has brilliance and good and happiness in the end.

Justice then is the excellence of the mind by which happiness is attained.

Talent means the ruin and overthrow of self; thus a road that can be looked at as the path of or more so properly the highway of anguish and despair. Talent rest upon conviction of actual carrying out a process of expansion. More then mere opinion, which straight away hamper as a matter of fact makes the artist powerless of what it wanted to undertake.

Talent is a content of purpose the artist seeks to bring into actuality, there cannot ever be an end to accomplishment. What happens is not a chance accident though labor and understanding is essential; and not drag feet this which is inherent and opposed to reason you will just sink to the level of mere empty talent.
When I began writing being drawn off into another stream, forever directed towards things that are all in order towards my talent.

Through some inherent goodness I had my eyes opened and little by little I learned. Talent lies in conquering, when the entire personality has succeeded in cancelling individuality to do good in the world is talent.

In ancient times talent had significance, richness, and a solid foundation of the course of the world, there was a spiritual life that required giving up individuality to carry out purpose in the world.

[Barbara Brooks]

Philosophy it’s principles reign for a certain time, like for example the Cartesian were very suitable to mechanics of philosophy. Thales thought everything began with water while Anaximander recognized that everything at from states a commencement in time was not a fundamental principle.


What will be the consequence today was the same questions of the past, philosophy belongs in its own time. Many ideas which entertain about philosophy are not tossed in some region which is half way between being and not being, not mere opinion. Like Turgenev, , "Rudin The Philosopher." choice to write about a lazy rogue questing in all wrong places for truth to be a philosopher.

Philosophy is equivalent to a long course of mental discipline in which the human spirit attains only to knowledge of the divine and humankind is itself the inspiration of profound creative ideas, a higher scientific insight that can only be won not by labor

Institution of higher education reason is flawed and bankrupted through idleness and self-conceit. The right time comes, and hence never appears too soon, and the public is ripe to receive it . Philosophy is a given by feeling a secure course, full and rich of meaning, which lie deep down in the heart, and the heart of others feel this "innocence", "pure conscience", and so on.

Philosophers express things no one can take exception of and nothing further can be certain. The eternal, the sacred infinite spiritual elation moves along the highway of truth, is itself the inspiration of profound and creative ideas and bursts of higher scientific insight that can only be won by the labor of philosophy.

This is chief my aim in carrying on here is for my own improvement but at the same time I do not begrudge others any benefit which they may get from my writings. I do not want to lose sight of my higher object. There is a perfection which all knowledge ought to reach, and which students of them ought also to attain, and not to fall short of. They are difficult to learn without a director. A director can hardly be found, but even as matters now stand the student today most would not attend to them.

Descartes' believed being and thought are inherently self-thinking that quivers within self. Philosophy is dependent on those principles derived from pure thinking, that is requisite above all who to try to establish it.

[Barbara Brooks]

If likeness is unlikeness is not, what is the consequence in either of these cases in relation to themselves and to other, the same holds true of motion and rest, generation and destruction, and even being and not-being. We suppose to be or not to be, or to be in any way affected must look at the consequences. Eternity has neither beginning nor end. Likeness has a beginning and end are the limits of everything and must look at the consequences.

Turn back to the epoch which took place thousands of years ago watch over philosophy like good farmers nurturing and cultivating its gentle qualities, and prevent those wild weeds from growing. Philosophers ever directed toward things fixed and immutable are neither injuring nor injured by one another, living all in order moving according to reason; we imitate as far as what we hold reverential.

Be a servant of good because every one had better be ruled by divine wisdom dwelling within.

[Barbara Brooks]

All cruelty, anger and superstition would empty out of the world if the knowledge that all one can do in this world is be good which is the highest of all gifts of humanity.

Knowledge rests upon the higher good, all things become useful and advantageous by good, and everyone should pursue good and make it the end of all actions. Knowledge plays the inner principle role in the case of virtue that carries out good.

Phenomena of knowledge is sheer intelligence or wisdom, insight, understanding, and perception. The pathway to knowledge its essential principle embrace nothing less than the entire system of consciousness. The realm of truth and knowledge set forth as consciousness in virtue of consciousness.

Copernicus Greek an astronomer learned also to be jurist and physician showed the world the immovable sun at the center of the universe meaning would not differ from the center. Copernicus describes all locations of the sphere or orbital circles together with the movements which he attributes to the earth, he correlates all the movements of the earth so that is the other planets and their spheres.


Phallus, a Pythagorean who Plato went to Italy for the sake of seeking new ideas in science, thought the sun moved in a circle and wandered in the some other movement and was one of the Planets. Zeno asserted fundamentally the same as does Parmenides that all is one but he would delude us into believing that he was telling something new.

Cicero, Nicectus thought that the earth moved. Plutarch had the same feeling that the earth moved an obiluely circular motion like the sun and moon. Heroklendes of Pontus and Ekphantus of Pythagorean clan did not give the earth any movement of locomotion but rather limited to rising and setting.

Laplace showed not only an elliptic but the force which keeps the planets in orbit. In the first place the extension to the moon is only a part of gravitational force, the rule of motion of the planets to their satellites, a limited point.

Philosophy demands in the first place philosophers are willing to give not superficial but profound thought. The society has fallen into such disorder that becomes the task of philosophy to reawaken the mind spirit, which has been buried in such a way the constitution roam wildly unfettered without an ethical order of natural living together shapes and preserves by labor for universal ends.

[Barbara Brooks]

God mingles through love is the mediator who crosses the gap, which divides them, and therefore, love all is bound together and ideas find their way through the long sequence of family broken and diversified existence and gathers family up into one completed embodiment, who has lifted family out of the unrest of a life of chance and change into the peace of simple universality.


Spinoza indisputably wrote the greatest work on ethics, asserted knowledge is thought. Descartes, believed knowledge was a science. Leibniz devoted his attention to knowledge of a higher f self-sufficient individuality.

Ethics is where self-conscious is realized. Self-conscious inner principle or more so ethical order within and out .Ethics the inner indwelling principle of social order operates in an unconscious way as the basis that forms and preserves community together.

Purpose a simple pure sheer implicit power within self a kind of illumination of inner truth, has two guiding principles one is intention and the other is reason and these two are sometimes in harmony and sometimes at war one conquers the other.

The process of birth is purpose laboring anything into something has not only positive significance but also self becomes truly realized.

Labor simply means transferring from a state not yet explicitly self fully expressed; Therefore, refuse to be led astray or abandon purpose l; we cannot know what is until our purpose is actualized. Recognize the existence of absolute beauty and is able to distinguish the idea from the objects which participate in the idea, neither putting the objects in the place of the idea nor the idea in the place of the objects

More heavenly than any of the other sciences is philosophy useful and beneficial, always handy helper gives greater clearness, and better understanding.

[Barbara Brooks]

Having a sense of things has no sense of absolute , if another lead him to a knowledge of that beauty is unable to follow of such an one I ask, Is he awake or in a dream only? Reflect: is not the dreamer, sleeping or waking, one who likens dissimilar things, who puts the copy in the place of the real object?

[Barbara Brooks]

To grasp the whole truth you will not have difficulty in knowing what is great and what is small always arises when there is some contradiction of plurality, in which thought begins to be aroused mind is perplexed wants to know the truth.

The mind rightly educated is a philosopher noble and good, and purpose they will recognize and salute. Therefore musical training is a most effective instrument into the mind of a philosopher, because rhythm and harmony find their way imparting grace. Music is just as learning to read, we cannot perceive them as unimportant, but to be everywhere eager to make them known. Only when we know the letters exactly can we ever become musical and know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, magnificence, and their kindred when a beautiful mind harmonizes with the fairest of sights to the philosopher who has an eye to see it. The fairest is also the loveliest and philosophers have that spirit of harmony are in love with the loveliest.

[Barbara Brooks]

Purpose is disposed within each mind clearly and intelligibly broadcasting, declaring, proclaiming self’s spirit. It ‘s those ordinary goods of life, corrupt and distract our purpose; beauty, wealth, rank, and connections; they can be good but also in the way,

I have told this story before of my experience. After I had read “Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” I said to myslef this guy thinks like I do and made a promise the next book I got I would try to translate it into everyday language. I wanted to write for the ordinary person because that is what I am an ordinary person someone who somehow got hold of a philosophy book.
The next book was Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, translated by A.V. Miller. Being part two of the encyclopaedia of Philosophical sciences. Translated from Nicolin and Poggeler’s edition and from the notes in Michelet’s text. A friend at work got me my next book . He knew how I loved Hegel and passed by a batch of books at a library piled high in the trash with a sign that said free take today or they will be disposed.

The inevitable consequences linked with every action we cannot foresee the consequences of nature. Reason, depends on the fact that we accept it. I started this journey by the light of purpose, without any assistance, and I persevered having some divine reason dwelling within that rules me. I cannot help it; I do what is willed.

[Barbara Brooks]

I have never fancied myself to be in any more perfected than those of anyone else has, I have often wished that I were equal to others, or at least have a more clear memory. I had to form a discipline that gave me structure and raised little by little gradually to my highest point life will permit me to reach.

Zeno believed those who follow with no guide see the many and not the one have mere opinion not knowledge. However, those who see whole immutable may be said to have knowledge. Zeno comes to the rescue of human understanding-that is the beauty of him, even now his theories we have not gone beyond, the matter is left uncertain. In Parmenides, Socrates stated Zeno in his writings asserts fundamentally the same, as does Parmenides.

Parmenides "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 one part or another. There is no non-being which prevents it from attaining to the like."
All the great arts require discussions of high speculation; hence comes loftiness of thought, the person who knows will always know best how to discover the resemblances of the truth

[Barbara Brooks]

Self is simply an abstract universal common to all, for everyone self the most diverse wealth of ideas, drives, desires, inclinations, thoughts, etc. It is a simple point, yet concepts of all that humankind develops out of self.

To develop into something distinct. Without this, knowledge purpose and free individual is nothing. Self is free only to the extent that “I” exist as free.

Therefore what is self and what exists for itself are one and the same. This is what is meant preciselys If self were no longer in-itself, then something else would be there, change would have taken place where something becomes something else.

Seeds are a good example of explaining self, even through a microscope can scarcely be seen how pregnant it is with all the qualities of the tree. In the seed is contained the whole tree, its trunk, branches, leaves, its color, odor, taste, that are not yet shown.
 
Self-knowing  self,   assumes, appropriates and adopts a distinctive form developed pervades and permeates all aspects of its actual being and stamps them within its own peculiar principle it is the deep life of spirit certain of self.

This total wealth of self concrete actual spirit within ollects all these moments into its own content, keeps them together, and advances withinf and receive together in common the like determinate character of self. This certainty of self belongs to each individually.
 

[Barbara Brooks]

Socrates believed the philosopher even when he is in poverty or sickness, or any other seeming misfortune, all things will in the end work together for good in life and death: for the god has a care of any one whose desire is to become just and to be like God, as far as can attain the divine likeness, by their pursuit of virtue. The just and unjust is truly known to the gods. And if they are both known to, God one must be the friend and the other the enemy?

And the friend of god may be supposed to receive from them all things best, excepting only such evil, as is the necessary consequence of former sins

Philosophy in the first place, demands not superficial opinion but profound eternal truth of justice, courage, and temperance, not in part wisdom but of the whole and those who have a taste for every sort of knowledge, curious to learn and is never satisfied may be justly called a philosopher.

[Barbara Brooks]

Purpose as the over thrower of self; carrying out purpose is over against self , purpose is directed to make mind for the first time test what is truth.. Thus is skepticism, which always sees in the result as nothing abstracts from it a determinate nothing and which falls into the course of the inquiry and will come to nothing as a result.

Nothing the result when taken as nothing; it is thus nothing, ends with "emptiness" can advance not a step farther, cast into a abysmal void. If we wait and see whether there is any new possibility arises; a transition by which completes a process towards the goal.

It takes something other than self to go beyond self immediate existence, consequently self is confined to a life unable to go beyond itself; has to be forced beyond that; wrenched out of its setting.

Unthinking indolence and thoughtlessness mind conceals self behind pretext that makes it so difficult, nay impossible, to find self except that of which alone is vanity. Vanity being ever so more cleverer than any ideas. understands how to belittle every truth and turn away from purpose to get back to self, and gloats over it.

That's skepticism is sure to pass into confidence if we continue to follow our conviction. Skepticism brings about thoughts, and opinions, and that follows straight away to criticism. a mere negative process. The test when knowledge transcends what is limited, and transcends to knowledge the truth of consciousness.

Truth embraces nothing less than the entire system of consciousness. The whole realm of truth and in such knowledge is set forth not as abstract, but as consciousness in virtue of consciousness.

[Barbara Brooks]

Another thing I am not a meddler in other people's affairs or a professed adviser who intrudes and advices where nobody is asking. To me knowledge is simply to draw the mind towards truth. One part of us is body, and the rest mind and to which class may we say that the body is more akin and which is or is not visible to the eye and what of the mind, seen or not seen?

[Barbara Brooks]

My thoughts are not new nor old, not of one age only but of all. I can not rest in the multiplicity of appearance, but go not blunted, nor subsided love of philosophy, it lodges in my heart its my dearest friend cannot refuse it anything, even with the arguments, embarrassment and reason.

I am caught up in some sort of instinctual blind beholding where I cease from pain, and when I am away, I long for philosophy’s friendship again. From my earliest youth I observed those who were just and gentle, or rude and unsociable. The pleasure to learn for no one will love that which gives pain, or after much hard work see little progress.

[Barbara Brooks]

The ebb and flow of the sea shapes earth from the position of the sun, earth discharges its more than enough water into springs which connect to rivers discharges fresh water hastens into the sea are regarded as the genuine springs that generate rivers,

What happens the sea becomes polluted in July, August and September with slimy vegetable life in the form of threads into vegetable life on the surface, are simple reflected lights consisting of points, vast tracks of sea break out into phosphorescent light.

Come lay hold to knowledge not as amateurs who grapple with opinion only but with much facility in sifting out all the questions embraced in philosophy as science. Philosophy distinguishes the idea from the object, neither putting the object in the place of the idea nor the idea in the place of the object. Keepers of philosophy make a habit a craft that becomes second nature steps and points of departure into a world above opinions, philosophy ascends beyond by successive steps without the aid of any sensible object; from ideas, through ideas, and in ideas ends.