A Philosophy of Mind

Is the mind the same as the body? What is consciousness? Can machines have it?

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It becomes the task of philosophy to reawaken the mind spirit, whch has fallen into such disunity in such a way, constitutional rights roam wildly unfettered without ethical order .

Ethics is essentially as much spiritual as it dominates action of community set outside the family, Living in the world; must not be taken as if it were merely an act of expierence The ethical act is a process of knowledge and must be substantial in character and universal that lifts self out of the life of chance and change, into world peace, a simple universality.

Only as citizen that we are real and substantial. Beings and it takes effect no doubt it takes labor in attaining this stage of independent self-existence
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Themind of philosophers is fine as a point free .self-movement like the motion of the sun it moves round and round in the same place, only from one place to another. To a great extent neither rest or motion, must it not too the mind rest upon a center moves round and round in the same place, or only from one place to another
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Reflection into self is a conscious awaken state, whereas sensibility differentiates into the many sensory approaches. The mind is amazing; it has the power to act from within outward and not by any connection of the nerves that acts solely through the nerve-stems.

The mechanical sphere of feeling the head is center of feeling, the chest is irritability and the abdomen is reproduction. Thus feeling is a a threefold process: first, perception, second, cohabitation and lastly, change of temperature; these three distinguish the sphere


Mind is said to be the inventor of knowledge and truth. Truth and knowledge are deemed to be like good but good leads to order and virtue. The activity of the mind in accordance with virtue is good and more valuable than knowledge. It contains all that is essential and concrete at the same time, the form of free and independence in this case of consciousness, sensuous certainty and perception distinct.
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Grasp the whole truth and you will then have no difficulty in apprehending the preceding remarks.
Feeling is a state of tension with the world that it stands over against like a condition and matter. We sentient creature are self determinate in such a way our senses excites a particular feeling freely
Instinctually we are in step with the outside world just as everything else,

To feel is a privilege. It is this theoretical process that we are free.
Life is intellect only, we have been released from chains, elevated to the highest principle to contemplate the best things; Because of all the perpetual actions of earth, wherever there is opposites, inner and outer, cause and effect, and means subjectivity-objectivity there is life and it can only be grasped by philosophy.

What is truth but objective reality, in other words, the certainty of self but we can’t comprehend or understood it, because truth is merely the bare reason of being. This is called the mechanical sphere of feeling, a theoretical process that determines logically how to distinguish things. Doubting the truth there is no reason for thinking "I think, therefore I am”. Reason is in nature soundly I believe and I give entirely to the search.

Anyone who loves thinking about things for the sake of knowledge is capable of a speculative and reflective mind that when by other pursuits got lost and dimmed can be re-illuminated.
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The very core of life is defined rationally as the ideal universal intimate oneness of self and path of return. The complex beauty of life it confronts us as a mystery or a quandary we cannot grasp it.

So when we started on this discovery by the light of reason is by intellect only, without any assistance, we persevere at last we find self at the end of the intellectual world, similar in the case of sight at the end of the visible world.

Where we are released from chains, elevated to the highest principle to contemplate the best things of life; all the perpetual actions of earth wherever there are opposites, inner and outer, cause and effect, and mean subjectivity-objectivity there is life can only be grasped by theory;
Earth unites all determinations together within like a bouquet bound together as a vital process.
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To understand the spirit of life we must approach it in a partly practical and partly theoretical way. If we do not knowledge the acme of all scientific procedure will continue to be the ignorant analogy it is today, passed off as knowledge, since science so thinks we are other then Nature. The complex beauty of life confronts us as a mystery or quandary because it cannot be seized

This is an analogy of life; Earth unites all determinations together within it like a bouquet bound together is a vital process. This constructive deductive rational process defines the unchanging scheme of things orderly and harmoniously system, which Kepler called “Universal Gravitation.”

This was no easy task nothing short of the most finished picture is this idea. Little things elaborated how ridiculous! Attaining the highest truth worthy is good. Nothing imperfect is the measure of anything. Only in good life becomes useful and advantageous. The idea of good is the highest virtue everyone should pursue and makes it the end of all action they will shine with radiant knowledge.

But the theoretical process is also hypothetical ideality; unlike reason, descends to the other side to mere opinion. The pathway of knowledge is nothing less than the whole realm of life and in such truth is set forth not as abstract, but as consciousness or more so virtuous consciousness.
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Philosophy, Socrates believed, tempered with music, which comes and takes its abode in a person and is the only savior of their virtue throughout life.
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Socrates believed the only virtue that remains in society when all the other virtues, temperance, courage, and wisdom, have disappeared what remains is justice.

Justice is hard to distinguish its been broken off and crushed and damaged by the waves of life incrustation has covered over justice like seaweed and shells and stones, so that justice is more like some monster then virtue.

Look at things as they really are you will see that the unjust are in the case of the track runner who runs well from the start to the end but not back again from the end: they go off at a great pace, but in the end only looking weary, creeping away draggling their ears on their shoulders, and without a prize; but the true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and crowned. Endurance to the end carries off the prize, which is given.

The harsh feeling that the many have towards philosophy originates from the pretenders, who rush in uninvited, and are always finding fault with philosophy.
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Socrates believed philosophers must watch over like good farmers nurturing cultivating knowledge not in an aggressive way but gently and with a view of soothing and removing the dislike of philosophy.

The keepers of philosophy are courageous temperate, devout, free and dedicated wholly to upholding truth.

Socrates laid out a pattern of the perfect philosopher for those who desire to see and help set one’s own house in that order. Whether such perfection exists, or ever will exist, no matter philosophers will live after that manner.

Those then who know not are always busy with sensuality, and in this region they move at random throughout life, never passing into the true upper world; they neither look, nor do they ever find their way. They neither are true being, nor do they taste of pure and abiding pleasure. Then those who in ignorant of truth their passions are mixed with pains live a mere shadow of life fighting about the shadow of Helen at Troy.

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.

Passion into action, satisfaction in the company of reason and under the guidance of knowledge pursues after winning the passion. Only when self comes forward asserts not just a certainty but purpose, in other words, asserts true self over against world.
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Between being and not being is opinion, the many ideas which the many think are tossed about in some region half way between pure not being. Pure not being is opinion not knowledge.

Those who see the completion and eternal immutable maybe said to know and not have opinion .

The philosophic mind always loves knowledge of a kind that shows the eternal things not the varying ones meaning from generation to generation.
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Numbers are truly necessary for the attainment of truth. Those who have a natural talent for math are generally quick at every kind of knowledge and even those natures who are not so quick and have arithmetical training become much quicker than they would otherwise have not been.

Mathematics a kind of knowledge in which the best thinkers should be trained in and never gives up the study. You will not easily find a more difficult study or not many as difficult then

The second to study is Geometry the vision of 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 sun and which all geometers must behold. Not in a narrow manner of squaring and extending and applying.

Geometry draws the mind towards true knowledge is of the intellect, seen with the mind only, not like retailers or traders, with their view of buying or selling, but viewed for the sake of knowledge.

Numbers are necessary in all arts and sciences they are used in common, and which every one first has to learn among the elements of education that little matter of distinguishing one, two, and three.

In a word, Math and calculation appears to be a study of the kind, which we sought here simply drawing towards one and other and the consequences of one and the other together. Arithmetic’s and geometry consist of laws. Not to be transformed and transmuted without truth. This is in the soul of everyone and is most good.

Geometry perceives the solar system, the atmosphere and afterwards chemical Process, gives the seasons, and years, and names for all things; not opinion no shadows and disputing about them with corrupted eyes, and make no good attempt beyond the opinions.

The use of numbers is a necessity in the attainment of truth. Turn and gaze towards the full perfection of numbers and behold not in a narrow manner of squaring and extending and applying and the like, that narrow mindedness only and confuses Mathematics and Geometry with the necessities of those activities. Take the different ways the essential nature of numbers lays in the universal element of a law. Numbers have a rational purpose and a necessary function to fulfil.
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Unkindness, anger and superstition in the world would empty out of mind if having knowledge that all one can do in this world is be good.

That is the highest of all gifts of humanity. Well educated we grow to become sensible good nurtured citizens; societies improve more and more when knowledge takes root.

Through knowledge comes truth and with truth kindness. What is truth demonstrates the course of reason the bare and simple actuality. Then to see, hear, or perceive in anyway we must have knowledge.
The use of numbers is a necessity in the attainment of truth. Turn and gaze towards the full perfection of numbers look not in a narrow manner of squaring and extending and applying and the like, that narrow mindedness. Here let us take a different way of numbering and lay them in the universal element of a law.

The study is of a kind consist of laws that are not to be transformed and transmuted without truth and this is most good.
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Some never rise above their senses, are so accustomed to consider mere image of truth. They are persuaded that knowledge is too difficult. But seeing or hearing can never assure us of anything if knowledge does not intervene. Knowledge rests upon a higher good, all things become useful and advantageous only by knowledge and everyone pursues it and makes it their end of all actions.

Knowledge plays the inner principle role that carries out good demands in the first place philosophers who are willing to exalt profound thought and eternal laws, and explicit truth. It can be done look at the decline of the Republic and in the middle Ages when the Teutonic philosophy expanded. When a gulf has arisen in societies and truth is no longer, knowledge is acquired.
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Knowledge must be approached in the right way framed in the most perfect manner. Profound thought is needed, thought that exalts infinite ideas and truth, not superficial and very tiresome rhetoric.

Here world-spirit consciousness, wisdom, insight and understanding make its appearance. There can be nothing so remote that we philosophers cannot reach. The sweetness of learning raises a pang of emotion in a philosopher’s breast,

Zeno presented the invariable and unchanging process of thought skillfully disposed in mind with a view to render clear and intelligible, able to persuade others of truth, not fancy rhetorical embellishment. .
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The well educated grow into sensible people, they easily see their way through , as well as other matters such as, marriage, possessions and bringing up children. They follow the Damon proverb that friends have all things in common


For good nurture and education implant good constitutions, and these good constitutions taking root in a good education improve more and more, and this improvement affects the breed in people as in other animals.

Socrates said and I quite believe him; that when modes of music changes, the fundamental laws of the country always change with them. Change of manner like when the young were to be silent before their elders; how they are to show respect to them by standing and making them sit; honor is due to parents; or manners in general. You would agree with me that these things have changed.
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