Philosophy - January 2007

Often rebuked, yet always back returning

OFTEN rebuked, yet always back returning
To those first feelings that were born with me,
And leaving busy chase of wealth and learning
For idle dreams of things which cannot be:

Today, I will not seek the shadowy region;
Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;
And visions rising, legion after legion,
Bring the unreal world too strangely near.

I'll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
And not in paths of high morality,
And not among the half-distinguished faces,
The clouded forms of long-past history.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory, and more grief, than I can tell:
The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling
Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.

2007-01-25 10:24:11 · 5 answers · asked by susie q 2

Before we commit sin, do we have a chance to deliberate about what we're about to do? How does it work?. Sorry folks, this is more like ethics, at any rate we all know ethics is a field of Philosophy.

2007-01-25 10:10:24 · 7 answers · asked by oscar c 5

2007-01-25 10:07:39 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous

small compose about life in 20 years time !

2007-01-25 10:05:46 · 4 answers · asked by Matey 1

Do you consider yorself normal or have you ever thought that your path in life has veered so far off course tha you find yourself alone, exploring unchartered territory ?

2007-01-25 09:46:55 · 81 answers · asked by Anonymous

i just feel i REALLY want to do that... i wanna know what happens to everything... the only thing stopping me is that its on the other side of the world and that i'll probably never come out of the triangle....

2007-01-25 09:33:52 · 17 answers · asked by bulletprooflonliness 4

They portray this within the movie: "Children of Men". Most everyone could agree that all things are temporary. But suddenly they assume there is some strange form of hope or perhaps an immortality for humankind through reproduction. We all die sometime. I'm not seeing what the panic is about.

2007-01-25 09:25:20 · 19 answers · asked by Answerer 7

2007-01-25 09:25:16 · 66 answers · asked by john.katrinacox@btinternet.com 2

2007-01-25 09:23:27 · 18 answers · asked by Smokey 2

2007-01-25 09:08:29 · 8 answers · asked by cheskel n 1

2007-01-25 09:07:57 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Empiricism focuses largely on sensory perception, but how do empiricists prove the reliablity of their senses? By observing their sensory organs? Isn't that circular reasoning?

Please explain, thanks.

2007-01-25 09:05:44 · 3 answers · asked by Theophile 2

2007-01-25 09:02:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

there is no correct answer i want i just want to hear you ideas

2007-01-25 08:54:48 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

The cause of living is not to enjoy and keep our process going.

2007-01-25 08:41:56 · 4 answers · asked by Capt.Manoj M 2

2007-01-25 08:29:22 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Nothing is meaningful when faced with eternity. Everything is meaningful when faced with a momentary existence."

2007-01-25 08:20:20 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

The best weapon one could use to defeat something is that thing itself.

2007-01-25 08:06:09 · 15 answers · asked by Lying from you 4

2007-01-25 08:04:53 · 11 answers · asked by Chris M 2

and the message or a brief summary on plato: THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE!!!!!!

2007-01-25 08:02:59 · 4 answers · asked by frank f 2

What Gets Your Noodle Going?

2007-01-25 08:01:02 · 13 answers · asked by Meeowf 3

The truth that I am saying could not be found in any books created by man. How will you tackle the question?

2007-01-25 07:58:20 · 11 answers · asked by ol's one 3

I hear a lot of people say, "So and so deserves that (enter random item here)." But is anyone really entitled to anything? Is anyone really "owed" anything just for being a good person or doing a good deed?

In other words, where do people get this sense of entitlement?

2007-01-25 07:53:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-25 07:49:33 · 10 answers · asked by tweety 3

2007-01-25 07:43:12 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-25 07:36:01 · 4 answers · asked by wade 3

2007-01-25 07:33:43 · 17 answers · asked by Diesel Weasel 7

2007-01-25 07:28:22 · 12 answers · asked by adam g 1

2007-01-25 07:25:47 · 11 answers · asked by adam g 1

Why do you come to this conclusion?

2007-01-25 07:20:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous