A Philosophy of Mind

[Barbara Brooks]

The world presupposed before us is Metaphysics, generating a world as our own creation is Physics, and gaining freedom from world in world is Biology.
Copernicus view of the universe was of the calendar, calculating dates of holy days, and navigating at sea. A major part of astronomy was then astrology, to calculate horoscopes of people from the exact time of their birth.

Whether it is the sun or earth that moves is a matter of indifference if they are the only players but in heaven, there are comets, sunspots, moons, and planets all in motion.


When Copernicus purchased a copy of the Euclid’s theory of a universe with the sun at its centre came about. His theory of planetary and eclipses motion were written in 1514. Copernicus distributed his little hand written book to his close friends. Here are some of his axioms:

“There is no one centre in the universe.”
“The Earth's centre is not the centre of the universe.”
“The centre of the universe is near the sun.”
“The distance from the Earth to the sun is imperceptible compared with the distance to the stars.”
“The rotation of the Earth accounts for the apparent daily rotation of the stars.”
“The apparent annual cycle of movements of the sun is caused by the Earth revolving round it.”
“The apparent retrograde motion of the planets is caused by the
motion of the Earth from which one observes.”

Copernicus also wrote. “At the middle of all things lies the sun. As the location of this luminary in the cosmos, that most beautiful temple, would there be any other place or any better place than the centre, from which it can light up everything at the same time? Hence the sun is rightly called by some the lamp of the universe, by others its mind, and by others its ruler. “

[Barbara Brooks]

We start as children with a clean slate knowing nothing, accepting anything at all given, until philosophy’s gentle hand came to our aid and lifts us up to the sciences.

Sensuous aims and enjoyments my mind was literally buried in outlandish slough, dreaming, and slumbering my life away. But mind lost or dimmed can be reilluminated. In every soul, there is an eye of mind spirit that gets oppressed get lost.

Turn back to time, which took place centuries ago. A revival as such is recommended specially of the ancient philosophy of Platonism, Aristotelian, and Epicurean, they were not self-seeking, their cravings of self-want must have disappeared, and strength, elevation, and fortitude must have appeared, their passions subdued and consciousness so far advanced.

[Barbara Brooks]

An artist should not profit more than their talent; the true artist does not regard its art as its own but always the people and therefore their pay is laid upon them in one of three ways either by money, honor, or duty is what will induce them to work.

Purpose also, can be looked upon as the path of despair or more properly the highway of anguish. It rest upon conviction and pride, to follow conviction is certainly more than opinion for opinion straight away criticize and hamper purpose, as a matter of fact we become powerless of what we wanted to undertake.

Whatever happens is not a chance accident. We conscious creatures, self-determined individuals have feelings and are able to act purposeful.

The wise philosopher ought always to follow the path beaten by the great ones and to imitate those who have been supreme. So if ever they ever equally supreme will know, like the clever archer designing to hit the mark, which appears far in the distance, must take aim much higher than the mark to be able to hit it,

Everything belongs to its own time each principle has reign for a certain time. But we cannot expect to find the same questions of the past therefore; every philosophy belongs to its own time.

[Barbara Brooks]

What makes purpose complete is belief. Life is a very fluid intermediate, quietly, silently shaping and molding and distributing in all manifold forms in a flux. This movement simply preserves us at the expense of the world constitutes Life. It is neither what is expressed to begin with, the immediate continuity and concrete solidity of its essential nature; nor the stable, subsisting form, the discrete individual which exists on its own account; nor the bare process of this form; nor again is it the simple combination of all these moments. Life conversely, cancels individual subsistence only produces the subsistence by putting life within individuals this disruption of fluent undifferentiated continuity life is just the setting up, the affirmation of being.

Purpose is nothing else than pure conscious self, a kind of enlightenment nothing more than inner truth, the ultimate simple pure ideal self, and pure sheer implicit power within self.

Here is self without any action because actions have consequences and outside influences our purpose is attacked and driven into alien and distant ends.

Purpose constitutes the whole self, belongs to wholly inner self-specific determination. The will to move in pursuit of what interests you or what should interest you is reason. It renders things clear and intelligible and turns a negative outlook into a positive one, works and actualizes, and brings to bear in other words; reason brings to light and establishes something good and eternal.

Descartes believed, good is equally distributed; for every one is provided with it, and do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. Good is equal in all is the power of judging right and wrong is properly Than those who forsake good, while they run fast, and good travels very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to reason’s straight road.

[Barbara Brooks]

Life is seen in the fundamental form of bone-structure . Goethe wrote in a treatise the transitions in Morphology, (1785) showed that the cranial bone is developed out of the so spheniodum, os zygomaticum ( the cheek bone ) up to the os bregmatis, the frontal bone that is the upper hipbone in the head. The other side of Goethe's transition is the introjections of the spinal vertebra into the separate bones. The spinal is the center of the osseous system, a center that splits into the extremes of the cranium and the extremities. At the same time the spinal vertebra joins theses together, in the extremes of the cranium we have the hollowing out which interconnected by small sideways canals filled with medullary substance. The interconnected contact seems to form very fine knots, nerve-bundles. The communication between the brain and other parts of the body occurs through the nerve trunk and achieves determination through the universal presence of the will and consciousness. The nerve fiber is connected with many other nerve fibers and when influenced the others are too.

[Barbara Brooks]

Truth is framed by the mind, tested by the senses. There is no other method of comprehending or determining the material world. Let the other sciences try as much as they like to get along without reason they are unable to keep alive any spiritual significance or truth. Pure knowing and because pure knowing is the ultimate absolute truth brings the final objective and brings to light and establishes something good and eternal.

Talent is only a content of purpose does not go beyond that and when seeking to bring into actuality our talent we must think away from negativity. Here world-spirit comes into being, all truth and all that is now is truth. Lay aside what is foreign; only s very stage proper of mind derives from the senses. Consciousness is without thought, just pure ideal within self.
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Purpose, when not saturated with feelings and other interests, brings certainty of life but in order to actualize it we must think away from senses or fall into the lot of those who are lucky enough.

In order to act one must have beforehand purpose, for our action each moment already presupposes the others and hence must keep holding on the original content until the process of mind comes to be consciousness has made actual the solely inherent and implicit purpose. Hence, straight away, proceeds to action once again. Whatever the circumstances it is the means, or end.

Know that before all accomplishments fear comes is merely objectivity. Talent is likewise, nothing but self with a definite subjective internal purpose to be brought into actualization. This antithesis inner and outer determinate is our inner character actual objectively.

What brings certainty of self is purpose. Talent is a content of reason and but if we are seeking to bring purpose into actuality then we must think away from self. There cannot ever be an end to accomplishing purpose or a fall to the lot of those who are lucky enough. Purpose is not a chance accident.

Purpose comes through study and understanding what is essential and what is unessential by simply transferring from self not yet explicitly expressed to self fully expressed; no dragging our feet inherently and opposing to reason or sinks to the level of empty meaning.

The faculty of purpose is skillfully disposed in mind with a view to render things clear and intelligible. Purpose always takes a negative outlook towards the world turns round into a positive outlook. The process is a middle term broadcasting, declaring, and proclaiming the unchangeable assurance of each being.

[Barbara Brooks]

In accordance with the difference of men’s natures, there are several pleasures corresponding to them

Socrates states there are three natures, and each one is found praising their own pleasures and depreciating those of others.

The moneymaker will have the solid advantages of wealth. The ambitious man will despises that which brings no honor; whereas nature of reason regards only truth, and calls the other pleasures necessary rather than good.

Two kinds of desire the moneymaker and honorable natures never taste the pleasures of truth and wisdom, for they never attain to the knowledge of true being.

By reason we are to judge, good will is the truest. And so, we arrive at the result that the pleasure of the rational part of mind is a life passed in such pleasure is the pleasantest.



Once again once is an Olympian contest, first offering up a prayer reason whispers to that the pleasures of the wise are true and pure; all others are a shadow only.

Necessary pleasures are mere shadows of pleasure, mixed with pain, colored by contrast, and go fighting about them, as Stesichorus says that the Greeks fought about the shadow of Helen at Troy, because they know not the truth.

Only when under the guidance of reason can either attain the pleasure that is natural to them. When a person pursues pleasure that is not theirs the more distant, they are from reason the more distant they are from law and order; illusion is their pleasure. Then here comes tyranny are the farthest from law, and reason. The tyrant goes beyond runs away altogether from law and reason.

Let us tell the supporters of tyranny that they are only feeding the beast within them and starving humanity. Justice strengthens nourishes the gentle principle within society, and makes an alliance with the lover of honor, in order that they may be able to keep down the many-headed hydra, and bring all into unity with each other; the just person is right, and the unjust is wrong.

[Barbara Brooks]

The art of reason involves thinking about things for the sake of knowledge and truth. It is pure speculative thinking that has the power to elevate mind to reason, the highest principles. All arts, and the elements of education use reason in common, and looks at things visibly and the intelligibly by reason.

Knowledge is sheer intelligence, wisdom, insight, understanding, and perception. The pathway to knowledge embraces nothing more than the entire system of consciousness set forth the virtue of consciousness.

The question arises is how can knowledge and truth today be cultivated? First, realize everything belongs in its own time, and each principle have reign for a certain time; nothing short of the most finished picture should satisfy us.

The struggle of division of inner and outer, generation and destruction, and being and not being is the chain that keeps us in bondage but success is attained. The process is twofold; slave and master, subjective and objective, meaning sacrifice and labor.

Laboring anything into something has not only positive significance but we can enter into labor to succeed and find satisfaction, the certainty of self. Labor keeps us in bondage we cannot get away from in order to succeed in attaining purpose and satisfaction.

[Barbara Brooks]

"The Art of Reason”is the mind of the world not mainstream stuff but something of interest to all or what should be of interest.

Midway between knowledge and truth is reason, functions as a centrality between extremes. Before I see hear or perceive reason I must have.

Pythagoras had a very strict order for each day in which each hour had its purpose. The morning directly after rising was set aside for recalling to memory the history of the previous day because what is to be done in the day depends chiefly on the previous day. His reason was to find out whether the deeds in the day were done and if they were right or wrong.

Reason the absolute end of anything, without it we cannot recall what we are beholding or know have we have seen before and have lost the memory which once was.

[Barbara Brooks]

Philosophers the good in everything and beauty, shall flow, like a gentle wind from a purer region, into likeness with the beauty of reason.

Come and grasp the truth, gather it’s meaning, Here we must stand back and adjust and approach truth in a partly practical and partly theoretical way for it is the starting point to all further constructive and deductive studies. In which pure insight finds its realization and is the living objective being. Pure insight--pure consciousness just as belief, is pure consciousness. Belief sees both moments as absolute Being, which is purely as matter, which is the positive entity.

Absolute being a kind of enlightenment is without judgment beyond the consciousness, no self-distinguishing consciousness simply immediacy of thought nothing else than pure inner truth of consciousness, without judgment, pure ideal thought within self.

[Barbara Brooks]

Survival is a practical the inner impulse part of reason, desire too is directed to reason as the uninhibited truth. Reason is the middle term between knowledge and truth, it acts and carries out reason, light of knowledge and truth of action.

To carry out reason actions must be substantial in character, must be the entire self and universal spirit; and must not be taken as if it were a mere activity. Reason is spirited action, an immediate truth, and conscious life.

Like all spirits between divine and human reason crisscrosses a gap, that divides truth and knowledge and there all is bound together.
Reason the ruin of self its road can be looked on as a path of uncertainty, or more properly a course of despair.

Reason rest upon carrying out our conviction our intention not personal where criticism hampers reason actually makes it powerless of what was to be undertaken.

[bus2bondi]

Survival is a practical the inner impulse part of reason, desire too is directed to reason as the uninhibited truth. Reason is the middle term between knowledge and truth, it acts and carries out reason, light of knowledge and truth of action.

To carry out reason actions must be substantial in character, must be the entire self and universal spirit; and must not be taken as if it were a mere activity. Reason is spirited action, an immediate truth, and conscious life.

Like all spirits between divine and human reason crisscrosses a gap, that divides truth and knowledge and there all is bound together.
Reason the ruin of self its road can be looked on as a path of uncertainty, or more properly a course of despair.

Reason rest upon carrying out our conviction our intention not personal where criticism hampers reason actually makes it powerless of what was to be undertaken.

thanks for this:)

[Barbara Brooks]

bus2bondi,

You are welcome.

Pleasure and belief are the two guiding principles of love; sometimes they are in harmony and then again at war and at times one conquer the other.

What lay in the heart of philosophy is constructive soft malleable terms that are carried on here.

In the first place, sheer intelligence is the criterion, wisdom, insight, and understanding philosophy demands profound thinking. What creates the spirit of philosophy is not to be found anywhere in the area of belief or one-sided views or clever turns of phrases, nor half remarks and semi- conversations. What is best lies in its scientific character.

BB

[Barbara Brooks]

There can be nothing so remote that philosophers cannot reach or so difficult we cannot reason.

Reason must not be taken as merely an act, it produces the action; it is the spirit, the immediate truth of conscious life. Through reason comes universal feeling and reverent devotion. Reason explicit truth rises out of the state of unconsciousness into the universal spirit for the whole world.

Profound thought must be there that exalts infinitude of ideas and truth, not superficial rhetoric the chain that keeps philosophy in bondage but unconditional sacrifice and labor succeed, master and slave are equally in themselves truth.

Socrates believed there are three pleasures; reason, passion, desire; desire is understood to be materialism as well as sensual craving, whereas passion embraces ambition, partying, loving. Reason is exclusively directed to the attainment of truth.

Reason is solely directed to the attainment of truth. The pleasure of the rational part of the mind is the pleasantest.


The tyrant’s pleasure, Socrates believed is like a multitudinous beast, having a ring of heads of all manner of animals, tame and wild, and able to produce and change them at pleasure. Suppose now another form of a lion, and another of a man; the second smaller than the first, the third than the second; join them together and cover them with a human skin, in which they are completely concealed. When this has been done, let us tell the supporter of injustice that he is feeding up the beasts and starving the man.

Justice tries to strengthen the human; nourishes the gentle principle within and makes an alliance with the lion heart, in order that humans may be able to keep down the many-headed hydra, and bring all into unity with each other and with themselves.

Thus in every point of view in relation to pleasure, the just person is right, and the unjust wrong.

[Barbara Brooks]

The counselors of evil desires buzz around them and mystify evil with sweet sounds and scents, this monster loves taking possession, and puts an end to every individual true or modest thought or purpose. Love, is like that a drunkenness and madness, is tyranny; and the tyrannical person, whether made by nature or habit, is just a drinking, lusting, furious sort of animal.

Tyrannts now cannot even go out and see the world having so many evils, they will be the most miserable of people; Master of others when they are not master of self.