A Philosophy of Mind

[Barbara Brooks]

Fix your mind on what has preoccupied and disquieted the culture today. The way of life has fallen into disunity, it becomes the task of philosophy to undo the disarrayment and reawaken the spirit of reason.

When a gulf has arisen between people and life is no longer satisfying society needs reason. This was so with the Ionic times people then were buried in a mad quagmire in such a way, duties, and rights roamed wildly unfettered fancies.

To labor anything into something has not only positive significance but objective; Anything does not become something other than through labor. The process one must enter into labor to succeed in attaining and finding satisfaction without conditions and without reserve. First, oneself must bring a true being, second, labor which is our chain that keeps us in bondage from which we can not get away ; in labor we succeed, attain, and find reason.

[Ron de Weijze]

Reason is regulated by words and temperance beauty, harmony, grace, and good rhythm they all depend on a orderly mind. Thus, moral actions is our work our grace and harmony and effective instrument of mind, because rhythm and harmony find their way imparting grace, and good is when reason comes and we recognize and salute it.

Socrates believed that learning to read everywhere youth is eager to make words known. Only when we know the words exactly and know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, magnificence, and their kindred when a beautiful mind is harmonized with the fairest of sights are to those who have an eye to see it.

The nicest thing of reason, it seems to me, is that it allows us to 'talk' to people who are not here or who are in fact long gone. It makes them less gone so to speak or even revives them.

[Barbara Brooks]

The difficulties of knowledge one has to examine and reexamine, sift and compare - until there was no possibility of error increasing knowledge little by little raising it high to contemplate nature.

Only knowledge does away with hypothesis go direct to the first principle, defines rationally the ideal universal intimate immanent self-unity of Nature.

To attain a conception of Nature physically, theoretically and dialectically determine; each emerges necessarily from the other and in doing so each results from the other. Physical science converts objects that are found in Nature into items used for experience and purpose. Physical science its peculiar innate vital activity is about life and the living being. Theoretical science, and its companions logic and hypothesis, the intellectual and the visible world is the arrest of the physical science Theoretical is the art of reason, pure intellect that entails thinking about things in for the sake of knowledge only. A purely speculative thinking that has the power of elevating the mind to the highest principles in being.

Aristotle physics is far more philosophical then physics, it is only in modern times that philosophy and science have been separated.

Philosophy is very closely united to nature and so to speak, is the ultimate and absolute truth of consciousness.

Truth is the unessential consciousness repressed within self. In order to behold knowledge it is best when sounds, sights, feelings quit, they only hinder the acquisition of knowledge.

After reading Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit,” I had a desire to write philosophy for ordinary people, I figured if I can understand this stuff then anyone could. I promised myself the next book of Hegel I get I’d give a try writing philosophy.

Purpose affects the immediate fact of being my fellow worker David constituted my well-being. Hegel believed that well being is having a moral justice. Happiness or good fortune are distinguished from well being. Happiness implies no more than some sort of immediate existence whereas well being is appertaining to a single particular action. Purpose is the ruin and overthrow of ego; the ego is for self cannot to deliver self over to others, because in the ego everything is for self. Whereas purpose is looked upon as a path, or more so properly speaking, the highway of anguish, doubts, always seeing nothing is the result. Of course, nothing when taken as nothing it is thus itself nothing, an empty nothing, ignorant indolent and sentimental suffering at the hands of purpose.

All vainness flees from purpose because to bring about the realization of reason is through sacrificing and striving for a better life than that of those who hunger after self-advantages.

[Barbara Brooks]

Thinking about things just for the sake of knowledge is pure speculative thinking, which has the power of elevating mind to the highest principles of being.

Reason passes out of opinion into the intellectual sphere, goes beyond hypotheses is kind of illumination Hegel called the unconscious inner working and weaving of the mind?

Thus, inner consciousness is just pure thinking the mere implicit thought, can not be felt, seen, or tasted it is simply undifferentiated pure self-consciousness complete.

This is the pathway to knowledge, the truth of consciousness. Truth embraces nothing less than the entire system of consciousness not as abstract, but as in virtue of consciousness.


Here is the hymn of dialectic, only by intellect and where the faculty of sight will nevertheless be found to imitate.
Here one starts on the discovery of the absolute by the light of reason without any assistance of senses, and perseveres until by pure intelligence arrives at the perception of absolute good.

[Barbara Brooks]

The mind is like the sun, but not the sun, which has a higher tribute.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good makes its appearance always at a time when mind has worked its way out of apathy and insensitive-ness into consciousness that stands in contrast to apathy.

Reason rises out into a conscious mind. We cannot have pure reason, but we can make the nearest approach to it when we have the least possible interest in truth and are not flooded with the bodily characteristics, and remain pure until the hour when good arrives. Philosophy is capable of being learned because everyone possesses knowledge, philosophy is offered to everyone it is an open road made plain for all; and not restricted to any particular mode. What was taught remains in my memory just as chance had arranged.

[Barbara Brooks]

Look at things as they really are and see unjust people are like in the case of track runners, who run well from the starting-place to the end but not back again from the end: go off at a great pace, but in the end only creeping away without a crown but the true just people are like the track runner who comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned. Those who endure to the end of every action and has a good report carries off the prize, which is bestowed.

Justice is not a disproportionate happiness of one group, but the greatest happiness of the whole society; that in a society, which is ordered with a view to the good are most likely to find Justice. Those qualities, which make a society virtuous, must be justice.

Like a hunter look keenly that justice does not slip away, and escape us; for no doubt justice is somewhere in our society.

I see justice. I have been talking of justice and have failed to recognize it. I have been searching for justice going about looking for what I have in my hands, I was so busy looking far off in the distance; and therefore I could have missed it.

Wisdom, courage, temperance and justice are all virtues. To be virtuous is therefore to be wise and valiant and temperate and just.

First among the virtues found in the country, wisdom comes into view, as being good advice. It is truly clearly a kind of knowledge and the only knowledge worthy to be called wisdom,

There is no difficulty in seeing the nature of courage that quality resides the part, which fights and goes out to war on the country’s behalf.

Then there is temperance has more of the nature of harmony and work of art than courage. This is the controlling of wants and desires, basically being one’s own master. But the master is also the servant and the servant the master. This merely means in the mind there is a good and also a bad principle; and when the better has the worse under control, then it is said to be master of self; or if not the slave of self and unprincipled. Temperance therefore is the rule of the good part over the bad.

People may be courageous or may be cowardly, but their courage or cowardice will not have the effect of making the country either the one or the other; Courage is more a kind of believing. Whereas justice requires very good eyes.

[Bill Wiltrack]

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[Barbara Brooks]

Thinking about things just for the sake of knowledge is pure speculative knowledge which has the power of elevating mind to the highest principles of existence passes out of opinion into the intellectual sphere, goes beyond hypotheses is kind of illumination Hegel called the unconscious inner working and weaving of the mind?

Thus, inner consciousness is pure thinking the mere implicit thought, can not be felt, seen, or tasted it is simply undifferentiated pure self-consciousness complete.

This is the pathway to knowledge, the truth of consciousness. Truth embraces nothing less than the entire system of consciousness not as abstract, but as in virtue of consciousness.

[Barbara Brooks]

I really did not intend my posts to cause trouble I have no animosity, but only regret in my heart at this situation. If we can have nothing in common but nobility of philosophy we can be at least not unfriendly and I for one will be happy to refrain from ridicule.

The ego is like the barren seed germinates only when stimulated by sunlight, plants shoot up out into individuals. Ego too is truly absolute idealism is the pure self-reflection or in other words inner seed in that truth lies.
To sum up reason is the egoism of self-consciousness and what makes one’s purpose complete.


I am absorbed in the pleasures of Philosophy drawn off like a stream into another channel striving after the noblest pursuit of all, never blunted by doubt I live on a keen edge I will not abate until my mind is nourished. Reason has an actual pure truth and conversely an inner soul. This kind of enlightenment is called spirit or the unconscious inner working and weaving but it has no real self-distinguishing consciousness, nothing else than pure consciousness. Thus this inner consciousness is without knowledge, a mere pure ideality or more so implicit self. It appears conscious but is really unconscious. Reason is centrality to extremes, passes out of opinion above hypotheses to the intellectual plane, which makes no use of images.

[Barbara Brooks]

Descartes thought knowledge is a higher sense of science. His first meditations are so metaphysical and so unusual yet at the same time, is entirely the search after Truth he rejects everything which he could doubt, in order to see if his belief was entirely certain.

His first principle "I think, therefore I am" was so certain and so assured that all suppositions brought forward by the skeptics who are incapable of shaking it.

[Barbara Brooks]

If we are seeking to bring purpose into actuality then we must think away from opinion, and there can never is an end to accomplishing purpose, for we cannot know whether what happens is not a chance accident

Purpose through study and understanding; not dragging our feet, which is inherent, and opposed to reason, sinking to the level of mere emptiness.

Purpose is skillfully disposed in mind and with a view to render things clear and intelligible takes, a negative outlook towards the world turns round into a positive outlook.
In truth purpose works and actualizes, and brings to bear truth. In other words, truth brings the final objective to light and establishes something good and eternal.

Purpose we must think away from negativity although negativity is inherent a determinate quality of self- transparent universal element in which individuality feels for itself. Realized self as simply reason: every aspect of our life is affected by purpose permeated by this inner and outer, determinate character actual carrying out purpose.


Here world-spirit comes into being, all that is present is truth. There is a law of Destiny, when unable to follow fail to behold the truth; sink beneath the double load of forgetfulness lacking purpose. Then the law ordains that a philosopher, or artist, or some musical and loving nature; sacrifice to divine beauty as to the image of god; are melted, and nourishment streams upon them, grows upwards; and the growth extends nearer.


Those who are in the there is no absolute or unchangeable, Socrates believed, or one is many and who cannot bear to be told that there is one, and the just is one, or that anything is one, saying, there is one and may not the many are doubles be also halves, doubles, that is, of one thing, and halves of another, and things large and small, or matter and motion, as they are termed, opposites.

Thus, then, ideas that people entertain are tossed about in some region that is halfway between being and not being described as opinion, not knowledge but as a kind of intermediate flux.

Socrates in the Republic, Book V, that those who see the many and who yet neither see absolute nor can follow any guide who points the way thither; who see the many just, and not absolute and the like, such gentlepeople may be said to have opinion but not knowledge. But those who see the absolute eternal and immutable may be said to know, and not only opinion.

[Barbara Brooks]

Purpose, is an urge, an inner stimulus in opposition with the outside world carries out purpose. Instinctually just as everything else we are in step with the outside world. That is to say, we feel the outside world. Therefore self feels in need of outside world, but as negative; need is an unpleasant urge but necessary.

Feeling is a privilege of higher natures and the higher the nature the more they feel. We sentient creature are self determined in a particular way senses, excites a particular emotion independently, but equally at the same time self-consciousness.
Feeling prevails over purpose and that is the struggle, and like any struggle a division. Nothing turns into something unless it is felt. In other words, supposing something to be or not to be, like or unlike and so on, the same holds true of inner and outer, generation and destruction, being and not being. In a word, anything that is or is not.

What is truth but reality; bare reason the pure inner essential being comes forward with the world over against it with purpose. The whole Godly like relation between inner and outer is like the crystal French mineralogist Hauy expounded as the law of crystallization as immaterial becoming material by crystallizing the immaterial through and through its place. This silent activity that sets forth without action, merely shapes, and links together all the indifferent parts. The outside is called the crystal of feeling.

Purpose has not only positive significance but becomes objectified; anything does not become something other than through work. The process is twofold, risking self in pursuing purpose and the other the labor; Self must enter into labor to succeed in attaining and finding satisfaction without qualification and without reserve. First, true certainty of being, second, labor, our chain, for it keeps us in bondage from which we can not get away but, in labor we succeed attaining and find satisfaction of purpose.

[Barbara Brooks]

Spinoza did not slave in the acquisition of knowledge, for any kind of knowledge acquired under force does not stay in mind, indisputably wrote the greatest work on ethics asserted knowledge is oneness of thought. Descartes, believed knowledge is science and Leibniz devoted his attention to knowledge as the high sense of self-sufficient individuality.

Rigid and closed within is powerless. Rigidity does not lose its hold and breaks down internally. Like the moon is rigid represents earth's nucleus and contains the principle of abstract individuality.

Life's perpetual actions can be grasped only through knowledge Wherever there is inner and outer, cause and effect, and means subjective-objective, is life.

Knowledge comes on the scene liberates consciousness there are two kinds; knowledge that instinctual knowing as adequate judge and the other is ultimate and absolute truth of consciousness sheer intelligence wisdom, insight, understanding, laying aside the sphere of feeling; knowledge that embraces nothing less than the entire realm of consciousness.

[Barbara Brooks]

I myself am only a hesitating enquirer believe that to declare the truth about matters of high interest and carry on an argument is a dangerous and slippery thing. The danger is not that I shall be laughed at but that I shall miss the truth where there is most need to be sure of footing, and not drag friends after me in my fall.

[Barbara Brooks]

A well-educated person absent of corruption and remains devoted to philosophy belongs to a small group who have sampled how sacred the possession of philosophy is and have seen enough of the lunacy of the crowd can be compared to a person who has fallen among wild beasts but will not join them in their impiety but neither can the philosopher singly able to resist all the brutal natures.

As Plato called philosophers “Like in the storm of snow and sleet storm with driving wind, we philosophers retire under the shelter of a wall; and seeing the rest of people kind full of impiety, we are content, if only we can live life and be pure from unrighteousness, and depart in peace and good-will with happy hopes.”