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OK, I'm just jumping in here not having read 119 pages of this thread hoping to talk about philosophy of mind, but Ms. Brooks, do you actually think you're communicating anything to anyone here?

It's one thing to think that a Zen koan or Hegel at his most infuriating is worth puzzling over sentence by sentence to glean the brilliance therein, but it seems a bit obnoxious to write like that yourself on purpose, much less to do so in post after successive post. Are you OK? Do you need medical attention? I'm send you calming thoughts and hope for your speedy recovery from self-indulgent postitis.

Why don't you read before making any judgments.

MarkLint

Why don't you just jump out in the mean time until you get your senses beck and stop downing something you know nothing about.

BB

What nerve.This is trial by death by an ex-philosophy graduate who has posted 6 post LOL both cancels the truth and certainty altogether.

The mind of the philosopher know the truth of that which is going to be written and spoken about? Philosophical words have meaning and are not hastily to be dismissed. A philosopher must understand the real truth of everything but will also have the opportunity of attaining an immortality or authorship.

 If inquisitiveness makes a philosopher you will find many that will have the name but if they led to the true philosophy those spirited inquirers are unable to follow. Another kind of trial to see whether the philosopher will be able to endure the highest of all knowledge, and will not faint under the labor as in any other studies and exercises. The pulse of the philosopher the most effective instrument in the mind is knowledge .

Socrates believed music is just as knowledge, to be everywhere eager to make them known. For example only when musicians know the notes exactly can they ever become musical and the same as the philosopher only when they know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, and magnificence harmonized with the fairest of sights for those who have an eye to see it.

Those curious souls are welcome to any knowledge, and may listen to sweet sounds and gaze upon fair colors, but would not tolerate the existence of absolute knowledge are lovers of opinion not wisdom. Philosophy alone grasp the eternal and unchangeable love knowledge of a sort, which shows eternal truth not varying from generation and corruption.

Opinion flees from truth suffers at the hands of knowledge. If philosophy, political greatness and wisdom would meet in one we can rest from our tribulations,. In the first place, philosophy demands not superficial rhetoric, not part time wisdom but one who is curious never satisfied of learning may be justly called philosopher.

What presides over just and good actions is knowledge, that through all objections ready to refute anyone not by opinion but truth, never stumbling at any step of the argument defining rationally the idea of good. With careful thought comes truth and with truth comes compassion, this power is in philosophers soul already and is most good imparts grace, and makes the mind that are rightly educated, noble and good. Eager we are to make good known make grace and harmony a continuous conviction in life; mind harmonized will be the fairest of sights.

What is small and what great or light or heavy invites thought; when there is some contradiction present one is the reverse of one this involves plurality, arouses within mind and we want to know.

Truth for which we philosophers must carry on in mind is the supreme ruler, autonomous, self-determining, feeling, perceiving, reasoning, will and reflective system that determines logically our relationship with the world. knowledge is the natural gift of God we can look at the movements of the stars and the things in heaven in the perfect manner. Little things elaborated how absurd! Those who want to know must take a long and winding road nothing short should satisfy them or they will lose sight of the higher truth where all things become useful and advantageous good.

Knowledge is a blessing of life. Know thy self is the beginning, in the element of thought. Free pure knowing because pure knowing the ultimate absolute truth of consciousness is the ego, a simple certainty of its own self, at the same time concrete of all things. Just the act of speaking is the elevation of immediate consciousness to concrete ego that is the knowledge of logic is directly linked to everyone. Without this objective movement of pure knowing of thy self appears as an arbitrary standpoint. Socrates logic namely is something thoroughly familiar, something everyone finds which can form the starting point for further reflection.

Know thy self as pure knowing or intellectual intuition is entangled in the world of appearance contains everything which gives certainty by its means of exercising my reason in all things.

What causes many to persuade themselves that there is difficulty knowing thy self is the fact that they never raise their minds above the things of senses, or they are so accustomed to consider nothing, excepting by imagining it, which is a customary of thought specially adapted to material objects, that all that is not capable of being imagined appears to them not to be understandable at all.

This is manifesto in the schools that there is nothing in the understanding, which has not first of all been in the senses. But the sense of sight does not give us less assurance of the truth of its objects, than do those of seeing or of hearing, while neither our

Philosophy even in a bad situation remains dignified, disciples of philosophy will be but a small lot : perhaps some good well-educated person, absent of corrupting influences remains devoted to philosophy.


This small group has sampled how thoughtful and how sacred having philosophy and have seen enough of the lunacy of the crowds.

A philosopher has been compared to be like a person who has fallen among wild beasts but will not join them in their impiety but neither is the philosopher able singly to resist all their brutal natures.

if philosophers want not to throw their lives away without doing any good need to hold their peace, and go their own way.

As Plato wrote, “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 our life and be pure from unrighteousness, and depart in peace and good-will with happy hopes.”

The mind rightly educated is the philosopher who is noble and good, and reason they will recognize and salute.I go back to the time that took place thousands of years ago when the love of knowledge was viewed as essential and a distinctive contributions to the field of science and intellect.

Being fascinated with philosophy I have no time for the affairs others , or am I filled with malice and envy contending against others. My mind is ever directed towards things everlasting all in order moving according to reason; these I imitate and to these I will, as far as I can, conform myself. Now can a person help imitating that with which they hold reverential converse?

Our time is temporal because all things are subject to change, only present time is distinct from the other moments. Present time will not come to be, nor was it, but it is absolute timelessness absent from relativity. This is true of all abstract universalities, such as, time itself, space, the Elements, stones, mountains, and even the pyramids, they endure have a higher value than what perishes. If everything stood still even imagination all things would endure but things are temporal subject to change, the only standpoint is present time.

Come rise out of the sea of change and lay hold of love of knowledge not as amateurs but with mind only. The two ruling principles of knowledge are the intellectual world and the visible world. philosophers must carry on the study until they see numbers with the mind; not, as merchant, with a view to buying and selling, but for mind sake. In a conscious awaken state there is reflection into self, sensibility that differentiates self into the many sensory approaches to the world. This is a threefold process: perception, living together, and lastly, the change of temperature; these processes distinguish wakefulness from sleep are the sphere of feeling; The mechanical sphere of feeling is a relationship with the world, transforms into feeling called the crystal of vitality or the system under one body feeling.

I naturally summon to see whether the several objects are one or many calculation and intelligence. The visible invites thought; and if adequately I could perceive one and many by t sight or by any of the other senses, there would be no need for knowledge, but always there is contradiction one is the reverse of one involves intelligence.

Geometry draws the mind towards truth and creates the spirit of philosophy, compels to view the idea of good; all things tend which compel the mind to turn it’s gaze towards that place where is the full perfection of being and which we ought to behold. Thought is aroused we want to know. The starry heaven the fairest and most perfect of visible things can be apprehended by reason and intelligence, used as a pattern and with a view to that higher knowledge; any geometricians who sees them and appreciate the exquisiteness but would never dream of truth of any proportion. Never can they behold the waking truth so long as we leave unexamined, and unable to give an account of geometry.

Metaphysics always wonder about space and time, Is a property of things or is space on its own account free ?

If space is a property of things then it must be like a box and when empty maintain that particular shape But, space it is freely spreading offers no resistance whatsoever, is not anything cannot be pointed out except geometrically. Containing nothing material space extends in every direction is absolute spreading same not endowed or connected to any thing or any condition. Space has no relativity except for the sun, moons and planets and mathematical or geometric boundaries.

Zeno of Elea showed that the arrow does not leave it’s place, that no thing moves it only the changse place. Zeno demonstrated precisely what motion is past, present and future, that which is about to be occupied, that which has just been vacated and throughout all these changes remains in same , present is because past and future are not, but present is the result of the past and points to the future.

Our senses sometimes deceive us, Descartes believed nothing is just as we imagine it to be; we can deceive ourselves. He thought the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and that for its existence there is no need of any place, nor does it depend on any material thing; so that this "me," that is to say, the soul by which I am what I am, is entirely distinct from body, and is even more easy to know than is the latter; and even if body were not, mind l would not cease to be what it is.

"I think, therefore I am", Descartes wrote, is so certain and so assured all the most lavish conjecture brought forward by the skeptics are incapable of shaking The philosophy I am seeking. This very fact of doubting things only ceases from thinking, even if all the rest of what I had ever imagined had really existed.

Look at Achilles the flower of Greek life he as a person did not survive nor Alexander The Great, the infinitely powerful individual did not survive, only their deeds remain on earth. The vital principles of life transcends time are eternal in and for itself and are not dragged into time process.

Descartes comes on the scene with a new philosophy and begins several different methods cultivating, physics, optics and modern mathematics and astronomy. His philosophy was about thought in an entirely positive sense. We began by rejecting all presupposed hypotheses. To Descartes nothing is true that does not posses inward evidence. “I think therefore I am” Descartes just as Fichte who later states “I” as indubitably certain. Descartes, believed philosophy is science.

The unflappable truth is capable of assuring that what I see is right. The mind is purely an unconscious overseer
perceives nothing more than an ideal pure thought of what is present.
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Physics is all about opposition begans with sunlight the pure identity with self, the reflection into self. one must first, study, then the manner in which sunlight reveals its force, absolute velocity everywhere present transparent.

Sunlight is only present not matter, it is pure power of universal actuality and has the possibility of unifying with all things it enters into community with the sharing of a common existence, an interconnectedness; everything exists because it is in sunlight.

Sunlight is the act of seeing, we do not see anything it is only through sunlight that reality begins.

Light affirms illuminates externality; Light is, self-hood whereas matter has inner character, is physical material existence.

Light exists in two ways, no intervention and a product. No intervention is most difficult to understand because light is not present, it does not show itself as real, nor physical, but concealed shining and independent in face of other determinations. It is only present in space as pure power, it has the possibility of unifying with all things it enters into community with, exists within itself.

Like all spheres of science and art it takes a considerable amount of time and discipline of the solar system in perfect unity: a cosmic perfect group of independent bodies nesting in an objective essential relationship to the sun.
Sun and sunspots, earth and moon are abstract characteristics of the solar system not a chance appearance. Sunspots are translucent orbits around the sun. They whirl around to the point of separating into different directions to avoid unity. Moons strives as it was one with the sea and so causes the ebb and flow of the tide. The Sea rises to escape to the moon and the moon snatches it away.

Earth is volatilize into an atmospheric process, resolving water and earth into odors has the possibility of fructify into life erupted at every point of land, lichens, infusorian and in the sea as countless host of phosphorescent life.