A Philosophy of Mind

[Barbara Brooks]

A supreme wealth of feeling. Everything is reduced to self; joy, pain, any mental sensation, seeing and hearing, etc self is interrupted by outside world causing feelings.

We sentient creature show outwardly feelings, we emit a cries in pain, need, hunger, repletion, pleasure, joyfulness. Even horses neigh in heat , insects hum, and cats purr and birds when soaring freely in the air launch forth in song uttering feeling.

[Barbara Brooks]

Therefore from the senses is derived knowledge and before we began to see or hear or perceive in any way we must have purpose or we could not refer to what is seen or heard. Knowledge is acquired before we were born, or at the instant of birth. All that is stamp with the name of essence, beauty, goodness, justice, holiness, we previously knew.

[Barbara Brooks]

Socrates believed philosophy is full and rich of meaning, which lie deep down in the heart, and the heart of all feels expresses things that are ultimate no one can take exception and nothing further can be said moves along the highway of truth as an inspiration of profound and creative higher scientific insight that can only be won by the labor.

[Barbara Brooks]

World spirit comes to actuality rises out of the state of unkindness into the conscious universal spirit for the world. Philosophy has this process each period of influence for a certain time is a gift of spiritual life, an authentic element for the world consciousness. Through this comes about universal feeling and reverent devotion to one another. By being, conscious in what is outside self and apprehend explicit truth is real world spirit linked together.

[Barbara Brooks]

Future society may look at this time as ignorant and barbaric times. The world goes around with the same old unrelenting madness The same old story; lust, greed and contention.

Universal spirit contains within self all that is eternal and important and all that is concrete and distinct, and actual reality appears as a part of being, acting, and striving, within the world.

Spirit presents self to self is indeed consciousness, and truth enclosed within is the shape and garment in which clothes self. The truth does not however in this presentation get proper justice done to it, that is to say, consciousness, and truth enclosed within does not get to be an independent and free objective existence reality lacks within itself this completion, it is merely a determinate shape or form, which does not attain to what it ought to reveal, viz. spirit conscious of itself. The object of consciousness has, at the same time, the form of free and independent reality. But, only spirit which is object to itself in the shape of Spirit, is as much aware of being a free and independent reality as it remains therein conscious of self.

Here in this super-sensible, understanding in such a way that self-consciousness feels satisfied in the world. Spirit is reinstated a positive objective being self conscious of self as the controlling necessity of what is important and actual.

[Barbara Brooks]

In ancient times dialectic philosophy had significance in education. There was an eagerness to behold truth and to be nourished in the spirit of philosophy.

Just let the other sciences try, as much as they like to get along without dialectics they are unable to have any spiritual significance and truth. Then no matter what criticism is about never refrain from dialecics.

When dialectics reaches the point of public understanding, will it have any value? There is perfection that all dialectics ought to reach and as students ought attain to, and not to fall short.

Dialectic philosophy is the copingstone of all sciences, and is considered a great advantage in all spheres of science and art. However, it takes a considerable amount of trouble spent in learning the discipline.

The other sciences just try as much as they like to get along without dialectics they are unable to have any spiritual significance and truth in their knowledge.

No matter what criticism is about dialectics never refrain from it s enable truth to be known.

[Barbara Brooks]

What is best in knowledge lies in its scientific character. The very soul of all that has gone before, the simple bareness of infinity may be called universal blood or the mind of the world. Zeno presents the invariable and unchanging infinity into rules of understanding one and many.

[Barbara Brooks]

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 not long after I got my computer.

[Barbara Brooks]

Philosophy of Mind is generated out of opposition
the saving power is courage was under all circumstances no lye; or sorrow, or fear; courage is the mightiest of all other solvents.

I will not lose sight of purpose and like a good gardener watched over nurtured and cultivated the gentle qualities of philosophy in the forum I prevented any weeds from growing . There is a perfection which all philosophers ought to reach and not to fall short of and only then will the pursuit of philosophy have any value.

[Barbara Brooks]

Come do the best way we can to reach perfection which all philosophers ought to reach and not to fall short iof philosophy can have any value or profit.

[Barbara Brooks]

Know thy self ; contains opposition self feeling it is reason which operates as middle ground, appears in self and the other.

Know thyself is pure knowledge of self only pure thought and no opposition in and for self is a pure inner essence of being the very principle of idealism; for reason is idealism, cannot get away from sensing and distinguishing therefore truth falls into a contradiction

Reason is the middle or mediating term, unites and acts and carries out dominates the action of the whole world consciousness.

[Godfree]

Hi Barbara ,,
Well you have been a busy girl havn't you , I read the first page and just looked at the second, you seem to be nearly all the posts on here???
Good on you , I say one of the most important qualities needed to find the truth in life is courage.
I think we agree on several points but I get the feeling you are a bit of a mixed bag,,a bit of religion or superstition in your reasoning.
"What makes reason complete is belief",,I disagree ,
"Reason is an actual spirit" , disagree again
"Reason is idealism",,,I disagree,
But I do agree with,
"Science is the instrument of reason" , and
"They think philosophy is useless but I say to them they need to attribute the uselessness to the fault of themselves,who will not use knowledge.Don't blame philosophy"
I have been expressing the same opinion on Atheists vrs Skeptics on many occasions .
So just to make it easier to understand where your coming from , what knowledge set you are using to reason with,
Are you an Agnostic , Skeptic , Atheist or a Theist,,,
To reason effectively we need a real set of knowledge to reason from ,
A theist would reason from within their belief system,
Just as an Atheist wouldn't factor in god or spirits,,
So how would you describe your belief system???

[Barbara Brooks]

Godfree

Ideal I mean best possible, consummate, supreme, excellent, flawless, faultless, exemplary, classic, model, ultimate, quintessential archetype.

The art of reason entails thinking for the sake of knowledge called speculative thinking, it has the power of elevating mind to the highest principles of being.

Reason passes out of opinion over above hypotheses into the intellectual sphere. Reason is nothing else than pure perception called the unconscious inner working and weaving of the mind.

Inner consciousness is pure ideality, a mere implicit thought. It can’t be felt; seen tasted is simply undifferentiated pure self-conscious ideality complete.

BB

[Barbara Brooks]

Godfree

I believe in myself God is good. I believe that the inner being has a specific spirit a consciousness, self-consciousness, reasoning, and knowing, assuming, appropriating and adopting a distinctive being.

Belief pervades and permeates all aspects of being, one with self: moments into one content gives certainty of self by means of exercising reason.

Pure self spirit quivers within I believe in myself. “spirit in its totality” as a moving process.

BB

[Godfree]

Barbara , thank you for giving some more to go on,,I presume from what you have said you are a Theist/agnostic.
I define logic , as "The most probable" and I suppose reason fits in there somewhere to , we could argue that it is reasonable to assume that the earth is more than 6000 years old because of the maintain of evidence suggesting it's more like 4.5 billion years old.
When trying to deal with matters of spirit or god ,
I can't see how logic or reason would be of use.
Faith belief and hope seem more like the tools used to reach god.
I would certainly argue that god is not the most probable.I'm an Atheist and I see no god , devil ,spirit or anything that would suggest there is an afterlife.
But I do find logic and reason to be powerful tools in seeing this.
So where do you sit with science,
Do you accept sciences explanation of how we came to be , evolution and the big bang theory etc,
If so at what point do you dismiss science in order to believe in a god???