one out of many possibilities....
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:59 pm
we can see that philosophy has many different possibilities...
we can use logic/reason, we can follow such philosophers as
Kant or Nietzsche or we can follow values such as love/justice/peace...
but we can also use such things as "shrill" emotionalism and
feelings to determine our path of existence....
so we can have logic/reason, emotions/feelings, ( or some combination
of the two) we can also leap into faith and we can just follow the crowd....
and how are we to choose between such possibilities?
or we can simple avoid all of the above and think about life
in this fashion.... we can hold to a "way of life"
and avoid all that messy talk about reason or logic or emotionalism....
In researching philosophical history, one can see in ancient times,
the schools of Plato and Aristotle... where they not only learned
about philosophical topics, but they went out and lived those topics...
and that is how such philosophers as Plato and Aristotle thought
about philosophy... you didn't just read about philosophy and then
take a test and then promptly forgot everything you were taught about
philosophy.. philosophy wasn't about test or understanding topics
like "How are synthetic a priori judgements possible?"
to Plato or Aristotle, that wasn't philosophy.... to live one's live
according to a philosophy, that was philosophy.... to find a value/principle
that one could use to base one's life on and live for, that was the point
of and value of philosophy....the point of the subject vs object wasn't
a problem in ancient philosophy because the point was to find a
value/principle upon which is the basis for a "way of life"....
I believe in peace and then live one's life as peace being the point of
and the emphasis of life...how do I live my life in peace?
that was the philosophical question to the ancients... or how do
I live my life in search of knowledge or how do I live my life in
justice and how do I seek out justice, in every aspect, as a way of life?"
so in seeking out justice, I seek out personal justice, and I seek out
social justice and I seek out legal justice and I seek out political justice....
I seek out justice in all its forms and aspects... that is by living my life
with justice as its primary value and everything I do or believe in
is based on this value of justice....am I doing the right thing? are you
being just, both personally and within the social framework we all live in,
and are you seeking justice for all, those within justice and those
outside of justice? to live out one life in justice requires us to
seek out justice, which means equality, for all... regardless of
one's race, creed, color, wealth, titles, religion or sexual orientation...
justice is seeking justice for all, regardless of one's place within a state or
society... thus we defend drag queens... because preventing them their rights
is unjust... and we must seek justice, for all or justice cannot exist for any....
that it what it means to live one's life within a value.. to seek out that
value no matter what else is happening...to live one live, as a ''way of life"
within justice.... and using justice as a value to make all judgements with...
is this just? or is justice being practiced here? and living that
as a way of life.... for as long as one has life....
and using justice as a value to live for and if necessary, to die for....\
as a way of life....
that is one possibility... what is your possibility?
Kropotkin
we can use logic/reason, we can follow such philosophers as
Kant or Nietzsche or we can follow values such as love/justice/peace...
but we can also use such things as "shrill" emotionalism and
feelings to determine our path of existence....
so we can have logic/reason, emotions/feelings, ( or some combination
of the two) we can also leap into faith and we can just follow the crowd....
and how are we to choose between such possibilities?
or we can simple avoid all of the above and think about life
in this fashion.... we can hold to a "way of life"
and avoid all that messy talk about reason or logic or emotionalism....
In researching philosophical history, one can see in ancient times,
the schools of Plato and Aristotle... where they not only learned
about philosophical topics, but they went out and lived those topics...
and that is how such philosophers as Plato and Aristotle thought
about philosophy... you didn't just read about philosophy and then
take a test and then promptly forgot everything you were taught about
philosophy.. philosophy wasn't about test or understanding topics
like "How are synthetic a priori judgements possible?"
to Plato or Aristotle, that wasn't philosophy.... to live one's live
according to a philosophy, that was philosophy.... to find a value/principle
that one could use to base one's life on and live for, that was the point
of and value of philosophy....the point of the subject vs object wasn't
a problem in ancient philosophy because the point was to find a
value/principle upon which is the basis for a "way of life"....
I believe in peace and then live one's life as peace being the point of
and the emphasis of life...how do I live my life in peace?
that was the philosophical question to the ancients... or how do
I live my life in search of knowledge or how do I live my life in
justice and how do I seek out justice, in every aspect, as a way of life?"
so in seeking out justice, I seek out personal justice, and I seek out
social justice and I seek out legal justice and I seek out political justice....
I seek out justice in all its forms and aspects... that is by living my life
with justice as its primary value and everything I do or believe in
is based on this value of justice....am I doing the right thing? are you
being just, both personally and within the social framework we all live in,
and are you seeking justice for all, those within justice and those
outside of justice? to live out one life in justice requires us to
seek out justice, which means equality, for all... regardless of
one's race, creed, color, wealth, titles, religion or sexual orientation...
justice is seeking justice for all, regardless of one's place within a state or
society... thus we defend drag queens... because preventing them their rights
is unjust... and we must seek justice, for all or justice cannot exist for any....
that it what it means to live one's life within a value.. to seek out that
value no matter what else is happening...to live one live, as a ''way of life"
within justice.... and using justice as a value to make all judgements with...
is this just? or is justice being practiced here? and living that
as a way of life.... for as long as one has life....
and using justice as a value to live for and if necessary, to die for....\
as a way of life....
that is one possibility... what is your possibility?
Kropotkin