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The mind is fine as a point like the sun, moved in place, or moved from one place to another a circle resting upon a center.

If everything stood still even our imagination then everything would endure but everything is temporal and subject to change. The only standpoint is Now.
Everything is temporal because everything is subject to change.

Now is distinct from the other moments, past and future. Now will not come to be, nor was it, but it is. Now is absolute timelessness absent from relativity.
What endures in time has a higher value than what perishes, such as, the sun.


The only standpoint is Now is an out and out abstract ideal that in as much it is, it is not, and in as much it is not, it is. It has tremendous right because as soon as I pronounce now it dissolves, flows away, and passes over into another moment; As Minerva fully armed springs forth from the head of Jupiter the mind alone is capable of assuring that what is seen is nothing more than now.

I am immersed in the pleasures of philosophy striving after the noblest pursuit, never blunted by doubt, until I attain truth divine, beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the like, for they nourish my mind.

The artistic mind belongs the immediate enjoyment through a process called the self-preservation of oneself, as a concrete universal ground of self.

In the theoretical sense, self is filled with self, restricted to self, and produces self by incorporating at the expense of the outside world. Self is over against the outside world is in a state of tension appears they are mutually opposed. Self adapts to the outside world forms of incorporation a union of both.


In the world of knowledge the idea of good only makes its appearance at a time when the spirit of the people has worked its way out of apathy and insensitiveness and stand in contrast to indifference. Reason is the mediating term, the light of unity and truth is reason split up into distinct elemental forms, human rule, and divine rule in a form where unconscious mind comes to actuality and rises out into a conscious universal mind.

Educated citizens grow into sensible people and would easily see their way through all these circumstances, as well as other matters They would follow the general principle that friends have all things in common, as the proverb says. For good nurture and education implants good constitutions, and these constitutions take root in a good education improve more and more.

Each individual should be put to the test for which nature is intended to work, then every person would do their own business, and be one and not many; and so the whole city would be one and not many.

The most essential process of mind is feeling, in this way animals reproduce and have the capacity to act and not by some anatomical connection. Feeling self own needs comes from the constructive instinctive mind. The mind avoids any unity, disperses itself into infinity when interfered with, like comets, trying to escape itself by pushing out from within, but cannot escape and remains imprisoned within. This stimulus resembles the general process of plant nature, that which comes forth from subjectivity. Willpower and consciousness are the liberations of the body, extractions from gravity, causes a restless effort to get away from the conventional, like comets. Feeling brought on by the nerves connected to the mind.

These nerves move without the rest of the bodily actions being involved and move particular parts of the body in certain ways. Part of the body we can move by particular muscles connected with many muscles by nerve-stems.

To find self, must attain true self-ownership, one must be conscious of feelings, joy, pain, any mental feeling, seeing and hearing, etc. In seeing and hearing, you are simply in communion with self. An utterance of self-feeling this activity makes the body organism vibrate into voice.

Ethics is that unbroken sense of security that fulfillment by means of self is established routine human emotion and morals of the living without opposition?

It is a law known to everybody, always familiar always recognized by everyone, this routine is predictable is called ethics and it is in every individual self; that certainty of self as single individual mind a force exerted against family. The ethical law or absolute being, or in other words immediate consciousness that shapes and preserves self by labor and universal ends;

In an ethical world before us is reason, a manner of conscious life, a real universal conscious mind linked together with divine law; mind here becomes actuality, rises out of unkindness into the conscious universal mind for the whole divine and human law.

Ethics are regulated by words and character on the temper of the mind, and love of beauty, harmony, grace, and good rhythm. Ethics depend on an ordered mind. That is ethics to do our work in life, with grace and harmony must be a continuous aim.

The fairest is also the loveliest mind having the spirit of harmony. The pathway of consciousness is ethics pressing forward to truth and knowledge; clearness of mind arrives at the knowledge of self.

Good afternoon, Ms. Brooks,

Please excuse me for assuming you are female, but I cannot open my mouth until I have made up my mind. Please see my Wiki link below for an explanation.

It is true that ethics are universal laws (the majority are built into our genes, I say), and I think that in our hearts we all know this to be so. I am very glad we agree on this (the first bit, anyway!). I also agree that peaceful principles figure highly amongst those laws. But you seem to forget the need for confrontation: to detect cheaters, and to punish those who do wrong. These are also universal laws. Forgive me if I’ve missed them, but you seem never to have mentioned them at all.

It is quite understandable, however: as a lady you are presenting female morals, where punishment plays little part. It is not your responsibility to remember the male approach. It is us men who have been negligent, on a thread that is supposed to be neutral. It is our duty to make sure that male morals also get a mention. Hence this post.

I am impressed, by the way, that you remember so clearly the dinner with your professor in 1973 (that makes you only 10 years or so younger than me!). My meetings with professors (only a few), have been similarly awesome. You cannot ignore status, however hard you try.

I am absolutely amazed at your post count -- and I see you have been at it for over a year! Congratulations! If I have even a tenth the stamina, I will be well satisfied.

Duncan,

The gifts of philosophy is diffused in both sexes, the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also,

The only difference if the difference consists in women bearing and men begetting children, this does not amount to a proof that a woman differs from a man in respect of the sort of philosophy they receive; we have the same pursuits in reference to any of the pursuits or arts of community life, the nature of a woman differs from that of a man I ask is there an opposition in philosophy between bald men and hairy men; and if this is true, then, let us say a bald men is philosopher, and we should forbid the hairy men to be one too?

This sort of difference cannot distinguish the gifted from ungifted? There is nothing peculiar in the constitution of women, which would affect them in the administration of the Country.

Knowledge raises a pang or emotion in a philosopher’s breast, and regards truth worthy of affection. Moreover, that philosophical nature always loves the sort of knowledge not varying from generation, love truth and will never purposely entertain into the mind lies. There is nothing more akin to knowledge than truth. The philosopher from youth desires it; like a torrent of stream that has been drawn off into another passage move spontaneously toward true being.

Equal in all people is the power of judging and distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is reason. Socrates, believed that all minds have chosen their lives, and chosen, the guardian of their lives and the fulfiller of their choice: impelled by its hand, thus ratifying the destiny of each; mind is fastened to this necessity.

Like good farmers philosophers must nurture and cultivate gentle qualities, all in order moving according to reason; with a view of soothing, are ever directed towards mind which are neither injuring nor injured by one another, these philosophers imitate and to these as far as can hold reverential.

And this thread doen't even include the bigger one we left behind!

Good evening, Ms. Brooks,

Wow! A most complicated response, and it will take me a long time to formulate my reply. But you have replied, thank God! I really thought I would put you off with my plain speaking. Thank you very much for tolerating my contrary ways.

This is just a short note to tell you I will be back on the forum next Monday 29-Dec, at which time I would hope to reply in full.

Duncan Butlin wrote:Good evening, Ms. Brooks,

Wow! A most complicated response, and it will take me a long time to formulate my reply. But you have replied, thank God! I really thought I would put you off with my plain speaking. Thank you very much for tolerating my contrary ways.

This is just a short note to tell you I will be back on the forum next Monday 29-Dec, at which time I would hope to reply in full.

Another mug falls for the gobbledegook.

Philosophy depends on knowledge derived by pulling from the mind all the wrong opinions, reason, and truth is cultivated. Good is the highest knowledge and that all other things become useful and advantageous rests upon good; all things become constructive and beneficial only by good. Everyone pursues it and makes it their end of all actions has knowledge. Knowledge carries out good in the case of virtue plays a inner principle role.

Any one who maintains being is absolute will have to admit absolute cannot be for then if absolute existed would be no longer absolute therefore, one is determined by motion.

Because one moves in place consists merely of self-changing place, anything that comes into being must have parts, and that which has no parts can never be at one and the same time neither entirely within nor entirely without anything.

This is very difficult to demonstrate this the perplexity in reference to visible things, or to consider the question that way; but only in reference to objects of thought, and to what may be called ideas.

The very hypothesis of Zeno's paradoxes is the subject of hypothesis. In a word, when you suppose anything to be or not to be, or to be in any way affected, you must look at the consequences in relation to the thing itself, and to any other thing which you choose individually, the relation to self and to anything else which you suppose either to be or not to b is the subject of hypotheses.

Matter and motion are a good example, they are held together in state of being one, as two opposed moments held in a contradiction of unity. Two in one place, the ideal contradiction of being one; equally indifferent of the other, is separate and in unity.


Matter and motion is called mass, equally retain being-for-self exerts pushes to retain its place is how things emerge into existence. There are three different motions, that which is about to be, that which has just been and throughout all the changes Now w3hich remains through all the changes. Zeno of Elea to demonstrate motion of unity used an arrow to show the arrow does not leave its place does not leave its place. This is precisely is endless meaning of what motion is, the arrow shot into the air merely changes place leaves its past yet is already at the place it was reaching proceeds to a place which is its future.

To declare my creating confusion about matters of such high value, I myself am only a hesitating inquirer, on this slippery subject and I fear not that I shall be laughed at but that I shall have missed the truth where I have most need to be sure of my footing, or I will drag anyone else after me in my fall.

Truth, which the wise receive, and the skeptics disbelieve.

Skepticism, which is prudence, which you applaud, sends philosophers bowling round the earth.

I study philosophy through a lot of ridicule because I love it. I would not let anything get in the way of learning this knowledge, the noblest pursuit of all demands in the first place philosophers who are willing to give not superficially but profound love.

The sweetness of learning of freethinking and absolute reason; there can be nothing so remote the mind cannot reason. Knowledge raises an emotion in a philosopher’s breast.

Amod,
Tyrants have irrational principles that are unnecessary pleasures and insatiable desires. A shameful sort of people, they come from having a cheap and mean father that causes them to live a lawless life. They are lords over idleness and greed Socrates calls them a sort of monstrous winged drone. When let loose, they come buzzing around;

Love is their lord of the house within unnecessary pleasures and insatiable desires and every day and every night their desire demanded. In a tyrannical state justice can hardly be distinguished, because tyranny brakes, crushes, damages justice, and makes it undistinguishable like some ogre?

When thought is asleep, and this even happens to good people, tyranny wakes gets up walks about without any shame; and acts foolish

Barbara

BB,
The Delphic Oracle supported some of the most brutal, savage and repressive people in history.

AMod

The highest truth worthy of attaining is good. Only by good do all things become useful and advantageous. The idea of good is the highest virtue. Everyone who pursues it and makes it the end of all actions shines with radiant truth.

Draw your mind toward truth and even now as disregarded as it is today, it is very likely some day will emerge into light.

I philosophy were mere representation of opinions then it would be a very tiresome study. Thus in studying science a willingness to give profound thought that exalts infinitude of ideas and truth not superficial rhetoric.

Labor of love is chains that keeps us in bondage but we succeed in attaining and finding truth and knowledge. The process is twofold; the slave and master which is solely a unity of subjective and objective, and the unconditional sacrifice and labor of love