Philosophy Now Forum

This writing though not mainstream there is something of interest to all or what should be of interest. Between knowledge and truth midway is reason, it functions as a centrality between extremes

Those who know will always know and reason best move in pursuit of what interests them, or what should interest them. Then to reason is something of a series of actions. Knowledge and understanding exists in the mind already.

Gradually increase knowledge little by little raising it to the highest possible point. Through toil and uncertainty, doubt and opposition examine and reexamine, sift and compare, until a voice in side us proclaims there is no possibility of doubt. Thought brings self forth, a voyage in order to discover.

We sentient creatures are ideally free, can spontaneously determine our place and display true self. Seeing and hearing, are simply in communion with self is a speculative contemplating relationship ideal and free.

It is our own activity that makes the living being vibrate into sound The subjective becomes objective is voice which is closest to thought.

Knowledge and truth are instruments of reason but reason is the bare path of intention. Knowledge comes on the scene and liberates the path of intent to carry out purpose that purpose brings us from night to light.

Purpose is merely an empty content. The actual carrying out is knowledge and truth, the whole phenomenal is directed to test our footing and not be right, because to be a liar about theory the fault of telling a lie is most serious.

Liars make it impossible knowing and not knowing, or distinguishing the face of a friend and an enemy. Democracy to them is like an advertisement, only appealing now. Liars don’t care about principles, which have been solemnly laid down a foundation they trample on all that excellent knowledge.

The mastery over self is justice. The good and just are clearly wiser, better, and happier. They make a more able leader; liars create division and hate and fighting, whereas, justice imparts accord and friendship that runs through all the notes of the scale, and produces harmony and do the utmost to maintain.

Justice has been beaten up and trampled and dented in all sorts of ways we can hardly distinguish it covered over so that justice is more like some monster covered in seaweed and shells and stones.

Why? Because justice has no path, has little light, and is so perplexing we go about looking for justice when it is our hands. We make the mistake of looking far off in a distance for what we are seeking and therefore, we fail to recognize Justice.

Let’s not let justice crawl away, pass out of sight there is no doubt justice is somewhere in our country. Come let us struggle to catch sight of and if anyone sees justice first let us know. Be aware it is the only virtue that remains in our country when the other virtues of temperance and courage and wisdom have gone.

These dishonest leaders today have putt an end to the better principles of virtue have purged away justice with not one ounce of shame. As they grow older with much wealth they fancy that they are able to rule over anyone and even over god who is the maker of all things.

They cannot possibly escape the eyes of the maker impossible don’t fear these dishonest ones have a gadfly in them that goads them within them with trouble, guilt and ruin of self.

Come our future leaders, there appears here a study of the kind, which we are seeking here that purely draws mind toward truth.

Good is most equally distributed every one is provided with it. Even those who journey very slowly may yet make good progress, given they keep always on the straight path.

Ancients memorable deeds of history elevate us; and aid in forming rules that point out the path determined is real or false guards us against being deceived.

Pythagoras had very strict rule for each day in which each hour had reason. In the morning directly after rising, the great philosopher would set aside for recalling to memory the previous day. Pythagoras believed that what is to be done today depends chiefly on the previous day. His reason was to find out whether the deeds in today were completed and if they were right or wrong.

If any one wanted to understand what reason is look at the highly astonishing phenomena of magnetism an actual activity exists when a bit of unmagnified iron bit is put near a magnetized iron bit we observe a movement. The iron bit actually moves and attaches itself to the north of the magnet, while repelled up to a point where attraction and repulsion disappear.

Knowledge is termed recollection because it recalls things to mind in memory or through the sight or touch, or of some other senses. Not only knowledge but of beauty, goodness, justice, religiousness, all, which you stamp with the name of essence.

The history of philosophy appears universal thought bound together in such a way constitutes reason. Hegel believed a person who looks first at the trees and sticks only to them does not get an overall view of the woods and becomes lost and confused.

Words are none other than the object of thought meaning that is separate or separable from the object. The only meaning that the history of philosophy has is thought.

Thought is the innermost, the highest, therefore, can only be reflected on. The history of thought can have no other meaning than that of thought.

Thought essentially is called a concept; an idea, the idea is like the seed, what Aristotle calls the possibility merely

What is a seed but something simple, something, which contains in itself multiple qualities, hidden not yet the real only abstract. For to enter into existence, to be something distinct, thought like water must be clear and transparent and still contain within physical and chemical and organic possibilities.

Freethinking is pure knowing because knowledge is the ultimate absolute truth of consciousness is not mediated by anything, it is merely the starting point that opens and unfolds i the world.

The inner principles or more so the ethical order within self and in others creates a fair society where self-conscious is realized into the peace of simple universality. When the spirit of self has worked its way out of indifference and unfeeling world-spirit consciousness, wisdom, insight and understanding makes its appearance.

Words and character depend on the temper of the mind, and beauty, harmony, grace, and good rhythm depend on a rightly nobly ordered mind. If philosophers are to do their work in life, they must make these graces and harmonies their continuous aim. Philosophers are gifted to discern the true nature of the beautiful and graceful; and receive the good and beauty in everything shall flow, like a gentle wind from a purer region, into likeness with the beauty of reason.

The philosopher’s pathway to truth essentially embraces nothing less than a whole system. All the great arts require discussion and high speculation for this reason comes loftiness of thought.

Consciousness is merely one-sided negative view of things called scepticism, which always sees in the result nothingness, and abstracts from it the fact that nothing comes as a result.

Nothing does not step farther then nothingness casts self into the same abysmal void every time. Therefore we mus wait to see whether there is possibility something being offtherefore isered, a new form coming about; progress.

We are confined to a life of nature unable to go beyond consciousness immediate existence; only by some other reason.Nothing turns into something once it is thought of. In other words, supposing something to be or not to be, or to be in any way affected, we must look at the relation to the thing itself like magnetism, sleeping to rest our body and waking to gather food and build.

The mind is a system independent, feeling, perceives, reasons, wills and thinks. Mind is remarkable thing, appears as conscious but is really unconscious. It is mechanical sphere of feeling and the immediate reflective theoretical process; approaches the outside world, determines logically a way of distinguishing its relationship with it. This is freethinking pure knowing and because pure knowing is the ultimate absolute truth there can be nothing remote that we cannot know. Truth framed in the mind is tested by the senses.

One of the hardest things for me to say is that I know myself. God, how can you say you know? I do know philosophy is my life. I drive people crazy about it, especially my husband of forty-three years. I can't help it. It is just recently that my husband sees philosophy not as some sort of threat to our marriage. So I suppose I would have to say philosophy has made me a whole individual. I am forever telling my husband I am not his rib I am a separate resolute individual in community with him.

Individuality is self an actual essential being the form of free and independent character .

All the moments of consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, and character are all the same moment together constitutes “spirit of self ” a moving process or called the process of belief.

Belief pervades and permeates all aspects of being. Self-principle spirit is belief of self certain of self and this belongs to each individual.

Individuality produces character in the course of this process constitutes all that self can reveal.

The keepers of philosophy are courageous temperate, holy, free dedicated wholly to upholding of truth, and making it their know-how.

Socrates has laid out a pattern of the perfect self, for those who desire may see and may set one’s own house in that order. But whether such perfection exists, or ever will exist, no matter we will live after that manner.

Then those who do not are busy looking down heads stooping to the earth, their passions are mixed with pains live a mere shadow of life fighting about the shadow of Helen at Troy in ignorance of the truth.

Passion into action, seeks satisfaction in the company of reason and under their guidance of knowledge pursue after winning the passion which wisdom shows us inasmuch as we follow truth, the truest passion in the highest degree,

Spinoza proclaimed knowledge as oneness of thought while Descartes declared knowledge to be science. Leibniz avowed knowledge to be a higher sense of self-sufficient individuality.


There are three elements of pleasure, reason, passion, and desire. Desire as it understood to be materialism or sensual craving, whereas, passion embraces ambition, merriment, love. Whereas reason, is exclusively directed to the attainment of truth

These three pleasures each one will be found praising their own pleasures and devaluing the others. The materialist scorns anything that does not bring wealth and the desires scorns that which brings no honor and reason looks at the other pleasures money and honor as necessary rather than important.

The inner pure ideal self-or more so sheer implicit self is only visible to the mind but is the absolute end of anything.

When ever anyone says to you they have found someone who knows all the arts and knows more then anyone else, we can only imagine they are unable to see truth. Grasp the truth and you will have no problem in knowing that what is great and what is small arises when there is a contradiction.

In language the universal art of captivating the mind it matters what is great as well as small. The great Zeno of Elea who had an art of speaking by which he made the same things appear like and unlike, or one and many.


The real artists know what they are imitating to be truth and memorials of art. God who made one of everything in nature and one only, whereas painting and carpentering is merely some semblance. For example let us say there are three beds: God is the maker of all thing maker of one bed, the archetype of all beds. The carpenter is second copy God’s bed and last the painter or write imitates the bed.

The painter or poet the like are imitators, and therefore, like all other imitators are three times removed from truth.

Through living flourishing arts, love is the median between ignorance and knowledge is a supersensible sphere like the North Pole and South Pole cannot be separated love is a highly astonishing phenomenon. Descartes believed love to be the requisite above all to establish purpose.

Philosophers who endure to the end of every action and have a good report carry off the prize. Look at things as they really are and see in the case of runners, who run well from the starting-place to the end, but not back again from the end: they go back creeping away. The true runner comes to the finish, receives the prize, and is crowned

The master is also the servant and the servant the master. This merely means there is a good and also a bad principle in the mind and when the better has the worse under control, then it is said to be master of self. Temperance is the rule of the good over the bad. Turns round a day, which is little, better than night to the true day of philosophy.

Nothing guarantees us anything except in the mind; it alone is capable of assuring that what you see is.

There are two guiding ruling principles in everyone, desire and the other is belief, they aspire after the best; and these two, are sometimes in harmony and then again at war and sometimes one conquers the other.

Philosophy, which is gentle, good, and noble, is the love of learning. What are required of philosophy are courage, quickness, and well-being. For it takes a long and more winding route then other studies; but incomplete is not the measure of anything.

Philosophy is deemed to be good but good has a place higher that leads to order and virtue and linked to every soul, without it every action appears arbitrary. The problem is we are so accustomed to never rise above our senses to see it.

I don’t claim to present here new ideas because there is nothing new under the sun. Philosophy is hard and not something, that can be casually read for anyone to understand.

Socrates believed there are three different types of people, lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain, for example the lover of money if honor and wisdom do not bring in money or the solid advantages of gold and silver. Each will find praise in their own and depreciate that of the others: The lover of honor thinks too many riches are tasteless, and wisdom is all smoke if they do not bring honor.

Wisdom is not so far I from heaven’s pleasure honor and gain are necessary quest but if there were no necessities lovers of wisdom would rather not have them.

If lovers of honor, gain and wisdom each, did their trade societies would be good. In the case of today, the rich are in government, but when is the sum of money is the qualification for virtue while the virtuous are dishonored and what is honored is cultivated, and that which has not is neglected.

Passion is the lover of honor, belief, conquering, and merit, learning knowledge, insight fitly applies to wisdom. Each have reason, soldiering, judging or profiting and everyone has benefits, things playing a part towards some supreme universal reason.

The pleasure of knowing is our pursuit; ever learning is not so far from the rapture of pleasure. Recognize the sweetness of learning and truth. Learning not ordinary understanding but something of interest to all or what should be of interest that gives much talent in sifting out all the questions. Embrace the most simple and general knowledge. Everything has reason. The only requisite is the love learning and to consider the endeavor the most important thing in the entire world.

Lover of wisdom raises a pang in the heart of philosophers it is the sweetness of learning, embraces freethinking and absolute reason. Reason lies in conquering. When a person has succeeded in cancelling self to do good in the world is reason.

The observer is the philosopher, harmoniously constituted; just, and gentle even in youth. Our happiness depends upon our self-control; good leads to order and frees the virtuous elements of happiness; now is there any greater blessing.

Knowledge lodged in us as pilot is very closely united to environment, actually, intermingles with the environment. From shadows to light, learning the release from chains not vainly images in the water. Learning that which is best in existence, raising that faculty of the mind that is the very light of the body to sight, which is bright.

Philosophy is most important in allh here this endeavor I must not grapple with wrong opinions. The idea of good is the highest knowledge and that all other things become useful and advantageous only by good.

The possession of all other things is of no value if we do not possess the good of it; we have no knowledge of their beauty and good. Set aside every other business to dedicate ourselves here wholly to the maintenance of philosophy if we mean to be true philosophers and not shames,