Philosophy - October 2006

2006-10-24 14:59:04 · 20 answers · asked by Steve J 1

Which theory is more successful in explaining the origins of knowledge?

2006-10-24 14:54:41 · 8 answers · asked by power03stroke 1

This is for philosophy class and i need to eather use Descartes or Berkeleys opinion to answer the question.... basically mind OR perception.

Regardless if there is a God or evil power.

2006-10-24 14:53:01 · 6 answers · asked by power03stroke 1

I am working on a philosophy term paper, and I have chosen my topic to be: Internal vs. external views of the epistemic justification of knowledge. Here's my problem (other than having to pick a side and prove why it's better), but.. when I start getting into the idea of knowledge and how we attain it, and it starts getting into perception as an external source, then it starts getting into the concept of "does what we perceive really exist outside our own minds". I don't really want to get into solipsism on this paper, but how can I avoid this? Also, who would be good philosophers to use who would AGREE that "we only know what we know because we have to be justified in our belief of what we know from others around us and not just ourselves"? (external view) and who would be good philosophers to use who would agree that "we only know what we know from a prior knowledge given to us by a higher form before we were born, we just use our existence in a journey to recollect this knowlege"

2006-10-24 14:51:56 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

In Aquinas's proof of first cause, he claims that "something cannot come from nothing" and that the idea of a "first designer" is superior to that of infinite regress. So, did "existence" always exist and God came into it, or did God create existence? (classic "which came first chicken or egg" paradox)

2006-10-24 14:42:03 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

ETHICALLY SPEAKING, when (if ever) don't I have the right to ask whatever price I like for something which I rightfully own (e.g., made out of things I own or bought rather than stealing)?

Please give a reason for your reply. I am not interested in what the law says my rights are, or what gets me into Heaven. The question is about what obligations could trump property rights.

2006-10-24 14:37:03 · 16 answers · asked by Sasha 2

It seems like whenever a hard to answer question about his theories come up, he says he knows it from reason. How does he know what reason is?

2006-10-24 14:35:21 · 4 answers · asked by DaniLynn 3

just one wish no extra wishes and no bringing back from the dead and no making anyone fall in love??

2006-10-24 14:06:38 · 37 answers · asked by reyz 3

To influence it so that the awakended spirit of humanities mind influences all of humanity to establish my social structure, and build my machines?

2006-10-24 13:59:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it a sin to mastrobate?if so were in the bible does it say so?are you a christian?

2006-10-24 13:34:04 · 23 answers · asked by MR man 1

e.g. - if I were sitting in my back garden at 11.02 yesterday, and a friend told me to prove it, what could I do or say to 'prove' it? If someone is in court accused of a crime, how can their mis-demeanour ever be 'proven' if no-one else but the accused was present at the time of the mis-deed? Eye-witnesses, CCTV etc - what's to say they've not been tampered with or are unreliable? I'm thinking it's impossible to 'prove' anything. In that case, what is 'proof', how is it obtained? Is there any evidence man landed on the moon? If there is, how could you authenticate it -'prove it'? Over to you...

2006-10-24 13:28:22 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

2006-10-24 13:26:07 · 10 answers · asked by Led*Zep*Babe 5

we're all animals if you think about it, humans just have the ability to reason. An din some cultures they still eat human flesh, so if they're aren't killing just for sadistic pleasure and for food, isn't somewhat the same as killing a cow?

2006-10-24 13:22:24 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-24 13:20:03 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm not well read enough on Marx to know what this means. Could someone help explain this theory to me?
Ed would use it as a way to steal stuff from the fridge, or books, or records, even money, yet he was convinced it was his 'right' to do so. I don't understand his point of view and he would never see it as stealing or disrespectful. What was Marx on about?

2006-10-24 13:13:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-24 13:05:07 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-24 13:00:10 · 9 answers · asked by In Honor of Moja 4

2006-10-24 12:39:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-24 12:35:29 · 21 answers · asked by Led*Zep*Babe 5

If its so obvious everyone would be christians.

2006-10-24 12:31:01 · 23 answers · asked by Mayonaise 6

If you were presented with the two following options, which would you choose:

A) Re-live your life all over again, unable to change a single event, and totally unaware you had lived it already. Everything would seem new, like it hadn't happened before.

or

B) A new life choosen for you at random.

Why?

2006-10-24 12:28:35 · 17 answers · asked by soloviceus 2

1.Mind is a charicteristic of the organizational state of the matter that constitutes the brain.

2.Matter in this particular organizational state is of course subject to the laws of causality, as is all matter.

3.Thoughts, i.e. physical interactions, are governed in a deterministic manner by all matter and qualities of that matter that have direct contact with it.

4.The wonderful illusion of a separate self that is free from causality, is apparently the reason for the persistence of this seemingly strange arrangement of matter.......(life)

i'd love to know what ANYONE thinks. this is "my lifes work" so dont be too harsh. and before you all start hating on cause and effect, i will tell you that i do not buy the copenhegan interpretation. there isnt enough evidence to prove to me cause and effect actually break down on a that level. im with einstien on this one, so spare me the quantum uncertainty dung.


-------Nathaniel B.

2006-10-24 12:24:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-24 12:14:43 · 21 answers · asked by Coach inthefight 4

2006-10-24 12:04:47 · 20 answers · asked by myk833 2

Do you want to remember more? How do you open past life records, aka The Akashic Records? Do you know how to read them, interpret them accurately?

2006-10-24 11:47:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Personally, I think this is the most important philosophical question to ask.

Why are you, "you"? Why weren't you born one of the other countless people on this planet? Did you win the sperm lottery? (Were we the fastest sperm on the block?) Are we the result of a cosmic mistake? A blunder? A happenstance?

When your three year old child looks you in the eye and asks "Daddy, why am I alive?" Should we say, "To change daddy's diapers when I am 80."

If we are the result of a mere accident, a combining of gasses, a cosmic fart.............if you will, then what meaning can be made of a life that was made of meaningless origins?

2006-10-24 11:35:46 · 18 answers · asked by Matthew R 1

when will i die

2006-10-24 11:32:30 · 14 answers · asked by paintballboyzy 1

red telephoneboxes
bacon butties
english beer

2006-10-24 11:17:51 · 82 answers · asked by artful dodger 3

Please support your opinion.

2006-10-24 11:13:46 · 5 answers · asked by Ylia 4

i.e. the love you feel for your parents, the love for your kids, and then the love for your spouse....all a different type of love. Now, more than likely you will never stop loving your parents and usually only mental people do not love their kids but a spouse is so easy to fall out of love with sometimes (considering the U.S. has a 51% divorce rate)......why is this?

Sorry, I do not know if this in the correct category...oh well.

2006-10-24 11:11:36 · 14 answers · asked by Led*Zep*Babe 5