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By intellect only is Dialectic philosophy nevertheless the faculty of sight will be found to imitate. It is the release from chains, from shadow images to sunlight, images is the shadows of true existence. It ought to have some other name then dialectic, something implying greater clearness than opinion and less clearness than knowledge: ”Understanding” Socrates proclaimed.


Understanding starts on the discovery of the absolute by the light of reason without any assistance of senses, by pure intelligence arrive at the perception of the absolute good This power of elevating the highest principle in mind to the contemplate that which is best in being, may be compare to the raising of the faculty of mind which is the very light of body a sight of that which is brightest in the material and visible world. This power is given for all that study and pursue of the art described.


Goes directly to understanding the first principle and does away with hypotheses in order to make the ground secure by gentle aid lifted upwards; as handmaids and helpers in the work of conversion, the sciences which we have been discussing.


There is no other method of comprehending, and ascertaining what each thing in nature; Even the mathematical sciences, have some apprehension of true being --geometry and the like, they only dream about being, but never can they behold the waking truth so long as they are unable to give an account of them. Socrates believed when a person knows not the first principle, and intermediate steps are also constructed out of know not how can such a fabric of convention can ever become understood?

Dialectic knowledge the instrument of reason, the bare path of intentions comes on the scene and liberates the pathway to carry out reason. Few hang on with difficulty, yet whatever is done and whatever happens that brings us from night to daylight knowledge is there. The mind is nothing but a monitor the criteria of knowing are not truth, but wisdom, insight and understanding.

Reason there is nothing mysterious about it just forces one into a quite different direction from one, the same as magnetism; two poles one pointing north, while the other points south.

Magnetism a highly astonishing phenomenon acts along an ideal line. For example if we put a pile of iron bits near a lodestone the movement of the bits is observed, at one end the iron bits attach to the lodestone toward north pole and the other toward south pole is seen.

Loadstones are not magnetic in the mine; it is only after they are brought out of e mines that they become magnetic; the stimulus of light in the atmosphere is when lodestone magnetism is revealed.


The properties of iron makes it par excellence in the appearance of magnetism gives the urge brought from a state of extreme to one of malleability and connects both extremes.


Lodestone the metal in which magnetism is revealed is the supersensible sphere. The mere stroke iron converts magnetic, but it must be stroked in the direction of the mid-way. Even striking or knocking iron with bare hands or shaking iron in the air makes magnetic.


Parmenides believed thought is the same way since the utmost limit of being is perfect on every side. The form of perfection is a well-rounded sphere, which extends in all directions equally from its center. That is perfection, for it can be neither bigger nor less significant in one part or another.

Every consciousness has intelligence, Emmanuel Kant supposed , that all knowledge is reduced to opinion, compared knowledge to earth; if you want to describe earth and earth’s meaning we must first look to drive out being and lay earth’s parts out one by one.

Come no lamenting or remorseful feelings can stop the examination all that sort of thing arises from mere opinion. Reason comes about even as disregarded and hurt in this world carry on that is all one can do reason the highest of all gifts of humanity and the element of reason


This dialectic examination is not the affair of the imagination, should be considered the acme of scientific procedure here and now.

Socrates believed the fully accomplished mind is fine as a point free motion, free from gravity. Mind determines self, contains nothing but self, that is to say, which does not contain self but then that which contains other than that which is cannot do and suffer both at once; and if so, one will be no longer one, but two.

Sun moves in place round and round in the same place, or only from one place to another. And that which moves in a circle rest on a center and that which goes round upon a centre must have parts, which are different from center.

Mind too is fully accomplished fine as appoint free self-movement like the sun, ideally free from gravity, spontaneously mind determines place, Come borrow all that is best in philosophy that enumerates anything, which gives truth. Where else are going to get these ideas? Socrates is the midwife of philosophy. I cannot make up a new philosophy or will I allow myself to, never to be overwhelmed by foolish jeer.
The philosophical mind is always seeking knowledge, the kind that shows truth not varying from generation and corruption absorbed in knowledge.

What makes reason complete is belief, self consciousness cannot be seen; it is simply undifferentiated self-conscious ideal which has no support, cannot stand alone because it is merely ideal; has no inherent standpoint only reason.
Therefore, is nothing else than pure conscious self, a kind of enlightenment nothing else than inner truth, the ultimately simple pure ideal thought within self. Reason is inner truth of self is sheer implicit power within self.

Here is self-distinguishing self without any action because actions have consequences a victim by outside influences willpower is attacked and driven into alien and distant ends. Reason constitutes the whole self, whereas certainty and perception are distinct expression fall apart in time, but reason 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.

Hegel writes, the dull, silent, unconscious working and weaving of the loom of being, is at the same time that movement of pure self-consciousness is a movement working in pure ideal, no distinctions, pure self-consciousness that unconscious working and weaving pure feeling, or pure thinghood.


Regarding that Absolute Being, enlightenment itself falls out with itself in the same way as it did formerly with belief, and is divided between the views of two parties. One party proves itself to be victorious by the fact that it breaks up into two parties; for in that fact it shows it possesses within it the principle it combats, and consequently shows it has abolished the one-sidedness with which it formerly made its appearance. The interest which was divided between it and the other, now falls entirely within it, and forgets the other, because that interest finds lying in it alone the opposition on which its attention is directed. At the same time, however, the opposition has been lifted into the higher victorious element, where it manifests itself in a clarified form. So that the schism that arises in one party, and seems a misfortune, demonstrates rather its good fortune.

The pure essence itself has in it no distinction; consequently distinction is reached by two such pure essences being put forward for consciousness to be aware of, or by a twofold consciousness of the pure reality. The pure absolute essence is only in pure thought, or rather it is pure thought itself, and thus absolutely beyond the finite, beyond self-consciousness, and is merely the ultimate essence in a negative sense. But in this way it is just being, the negative of self-consciousness. Being negative of self-consciousness, it is also related to self-consciousness. It is external being, which, placed in relation to self-consciousness within which distinctions and determinations fall, acquires within it the distinctions, of being tasted, seen, and so on; and the relationship is that of sense-experience and perception.

Friendship is most likely where you can find happiness.

Grasped the truth that a happy friend in this pilgrimage of life lives in the sunlight always. as the spectator of all time harmonious, just, and gentle, even in youth. Happiness leads to order and virtue; now is there any greater blessing than friendship and gladness?

Barbara Brooks wrote:Friendship is most likely where you can find happiness.

Grasped the truth that a happy friend in this pilgrimage of life lives in the sunlight always. as the spectator of all time harmonious, just, and gentle, even in youth. Happiness leads to order and virtue; now is there any greater blessing than friendship and gladness?

A very worthwhile conclusion, finally.

People holding different points of view about subjects that wish to establish the truth is different from debate, wherein the debaters are committed to their points of view, and mean to win the debate, either by persuading the opponent, or proving their arguing.

I favor truth through reason and logic in discussions. The pathway to truth has negative significance because knowledge means the ruin and overthrow of oneself, therefore the road can be looked at as a path of doubt, more properly called a highway of despair. Truth travels on this road this system of opinion and prejudice resting on power is nothing but conceit brings about despair that proceeds straight away to hamper the facts.

I could not find anything more joyful then mastering all this knowledge to imagine that all those things that fall under the might of reason may very likely be mutually related to all nature in the same manner.

I began examining truth in that aspect that could serve most to facilitate knowledge. I recorded, with great difficulty, carefully writing down everything in order to keep all this knowledge in my mind I increased my knowledge little by little raised to the highest possible point.

In reason world spirit comes into being; it makes certain assurance of each being.

The discovery of absolute truth, without any assistance of the senses before seeing, hearing or perceiving in any way you must have truth. To perceive some other thing like or unlike or which had been forgotten and was associated with this; and therefore we came with this knowledge at birth, and continued to know through life and those who are said to learn only remember and learning is recollection only.

Mind is supreme ruler, autonomous, self-determining, feels, perceives, reasons, and has willpower. This reflective system that determines mind pervades and permeates all aspects of being. To each individual belongs a mind.
What a remarkable thing mind, feels, perceives, reasons, wills, and even thinks all at the same time together constituting a process of return.

The ego is self-consciousness though merely an attitude or a reflection of self-inner essence but is where truth lies. Here we enter into the sphere of reflection. The ego is pure self-reflection into self, pervades the whole Godly like relation between inner and outer reflection is ego a complete individual just as the plant becomes self-like.
Mind exist subjectively the same way as plants but plants do not transcend to the stage of independence like we veritable kind who set forth outside of the body and stands in relation with the world at home with self.

We possess within a fully accomplished mind free like light, ideally free form gravity, spontaneously we determine our place, also, possess a voice, which displays our self-movement as a free vibration within self; a self-individualizing relationship with world, and above all have feelings.

There should be a law that makes possible all people to attain the greatest knowledge. There is a perfection that all knowledge ought to reach and which all students ought to attain and not fall short of is the idea of good which is the highest knowledge and that all other things become useful and advantageous only through good.

If everyone pursued it made it the end of all his or her actions good how mind shines with intelligence.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good only makes its appearance at a time when the mind has worked its way out of lack of feelings. Reason the light of knowledge and truth is split up into distinct elemental forms, human law and divine law, human is known to everybody in the form of certainty but over against certainty is the divine law where unconscious spirit comes to actuality and rises out of this state into the conscious universal mind.

Ego, which is always under the influence of images, has to be brought under the discipline and control of good. To be virtuous consists solely in the surrender of the entire ego; surrenders its individuality to good the spiritual course of the world. This is virtue when the entire personality has to supersede individuality, to the state of being good. Nothing short of the most finished picture is the idea of good. The highest truth worthy of attaining is good. Only good we become useful and advantageous.

If knowledge were mere opinion, it would be a very tiresome study. Therefore, philosophers must have a willingness to give profound thought that exalts way not grapple with wrong opinion.

Schelling believed, that plants if they had mind would worship the sun as their God. The ego has that same pure reflective transparent of self-consciousness. The ego is reflection of self but has also uncertainty whereas sunlight reflection has the potential of unifying with all things it enters in community with no objection in its way.

The approach is theoretical called the mechanical sphere of feeling. This theoretical process, determines, distinguishes our relationship with the outside world. Feeling, perceiving, reasoning, willing and thinking, all are inherent.

Knowledge is the power that draws the mind from becoming to being which is what all sensible creatures aim at about matters of such high interest. To carry on the argument when I myself am only a uncertain inquirer and fear that I shall miss the truth where I have most need to be sure of my footing, and not be dragged down by mere opinion.

Like a caterpillar spinning of the cocoon this pertains to mind. There are certain creatures arm themselves intestinally like blind sacs provide spiders the material for their webs. Same as the the building of bee hives and the excretion of their honey is a production of two determinations of the mind; willpower, self-resistance to the amount of pressure determines whether self  retains its or gives it up.
 
Resilience is what is bound up with willpower. Willpower is not flexible, nor compressible, nor adaptable, resilience retreats into oneself because each body has its own particular place where it preserves self when you receive pressure from outside, that pressure causes an inner reaction, and feelings retreat in order to preserve self. Everyone has a particular self, and  when influences outside cause  an  impact  touches off feelings.
 
Few schools teach this which leads to a lack of the pursuit it is understandably they are difficult, especially without a teacher. As matters stand today, students today are too conceited and see no gain in learning. Nevertheless, even though disregarded marred and useless philosophy is today by its natural charm emerges into light.
 
Knowledge i s through conversation discussion asking and answering, beating the subject up and down.
 

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Feeling is the essential process of mind, is the unity of outside conditions and inner self.
Nerves are branches connected to a single system connected to the mind. Nerves move without bodily actions involved and can move particular parts of the body in certain ways by particular muscles connected with many muscles by nerve-stems. Yet, nerves act solely through the nerve-stems. This mutual relationship is the system of the sensibility, and symmetrical.
The mind has the capacity to act and not by the anatomical connection of the nerves.

Minds exist for itself over against the outside world, but so that the connection between mind and the outside world is altogether a contradiction causing a state of inner tension and the outside world. Feeling and the outside world forms assimilation. The m mind excites and relates to outer world conditions has consciousness as self-consciousness, free, impartial leaves the outside world alone.

Mind shows outwardly our feelings preserves ourselves as this self-reproductive being through mind and independence.

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Billl you need to beat your own meet.