Philosophy - January 2007

Plato epistemolgy holds that knowledge is innate, and learning is buried deep inside the soul.
He believed each soul exsisted before birth, with perfect knowledge and when something is learned; it is simply recalled.

Surely not possible?

2007-01-31 06:19:05 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-31 06:16:40 · 4 answers · asked by prof 1

Is the meaning of life too simple for you to accept,
Why to people continuously try to break out of the messages that their conscience is telling them?
Or do you really have no conscience and think something else will find you?

2007-01-31 05:28:07 · 17 answers · asked by Frederick Hubbard 2

2007-01-31 05:26:27 · 8 answers · asked by maybe 2

and this is a rule, that means there are rules that have no exceptions. Does that make this rule always true or never true? Or am I way off base? Explain.

2007-01-31 05:14:02 · 5 answers · asked by Mister Farlay 2

Is it hypocritical and a paradox for people to protest against War, but eat meat & support slaughterhouses ?

Living Graves - by George Bernard Shaw

We are the living graves of murdered beasts,
Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.
We never pause to wonder at our feasts,
If animals, like men, can possibly have rights.
We pray on Sundays that we may have light,
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread.
We're sick of war, we do not want to fight -
The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread,
And yet - we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat,
Regardless of the suffering and the pain
we cause by doing so, if thus we treat
defenceless animals for sport or gain,
how can we hope in this world to attain,
the PEACE we say we are so anxious for.
We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain,
to God, while outraging the moral law,
thus cruelty begets its offspring - WAR.

2007-01-31 05:03:44 · 21 answers · asked by Gaura 2

If we as compassionate human beings have a moral obligation for the safety and well being of our fellow man, then why do so many oppose our roles in Iraq and Afghanistan?

2007-01-31 04:44:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Objectivism isn't perfect, but it's the closest to perfect that I've ever seen. But, the serious adherents that I've chatted with and met are always very arrogant. Does this philosophy foster arrogance?

2007-01-31 04:39:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-31 04:36:02 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-31 04:29:54 · 26 answers · asked by Eric Inri 6

2007-01-31 04:21:30 · 13 answers · asked by Meeowf 3

Is there a link between the following 4 things please?
- slavery
- lobotomy
- genocide of native people
- colonialism

I better watch out or the closet war groupies out there will be after me...

2007-01-31 04:19:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm looking for a theory with supporting evidence. You can make up a theory, as long as you find evidence to support it.

For example, if you think oranges will be the downfall of humankind, then support that by saying--penicillin was derived from rotten oranges, and since people build up immunities to penicillin, then we will all eventually die from incurable diseases.

Ok, now it's your turn.

2007-01-31 04:17:12 · 16 answers · asked by f8_smyled 3

2007-01-31 04:11:11 · 6 answers · asked by ruby 1

2007-01-31 04:06:13 · 18 answers · asked by Robert P 1

I put this to you (because I am pensive and erm- bored...):

Is it more intelligent to ask the questions or to answer them?

Is it wiser to seek enlightenment or to claim it?

:-)

Please- do give it some... enlightened... thought

2007-01-31 04:04:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

some of us doing bussiness, some r in job or services, social works, politics, travelling, creative works, loving others/nation,...... even some of us involve in destructive works also.

by doing all of those above we earn or gain money,honour,power everything to make our life easier or colorfull.

but for what we r doing that? even love or hate?

AS PER MY OPINION WE ALL R DOING THOSE FOR NOTHING BUT PEACE ONLY, MENTAL PEACE AND SATISFACTORY.

do u agree with me?

2007-01-31 03:58:03 · 3 answers · asked by Difi 4

I think over the next couple of years we make the country entirely self sufficent. We force the unemployed and people on welfare to work in munitions factories to make bombs. Then one by one we carpet bomb and knock every other country (besides maybe UK and Canada) back into the stone age. Using our satellites we will track down the few people left remaining on the planet and kill them all. We will then be free to repopulate the planet and the world will be free of the lowly and insignificant.

2007-01-31 03:50:56 · 8 answers · asked by Robert P 1

ethical? If someone translates their concept of freedom through the duties expressed by the State in the understanding that the State is ethical, what happens if, in hindsight, the State was not infact truly ethical, and the person's understand was thus wrong? Would that mean that they weren't actually free? If we apply that theory to us today, does that mean that although we think we are free, we might not be?

Just trying to comprehend Hegel's The Philosophy of Right. Any help welcome, thanks in advance

2007-01-31 03:43:52 · 4 answers · asked by pseudoname 3

It's a quetion I've been asking myself for years, and would like to see how others feel...

2007-01-31 03:39:57 · 12 answers · asked by Beccaface08 3

Karuna (compassion) is always seen as a positive emotive state...something "good" to practice...but we can and often DO create even more suffering for people by showing and giving TOO MUCH compassion....unchecked it can cause dependence and
weakness...suffering...How do we stop this...or can we?

2007-01-31 03:37:09 · 3 answers · asked by zasetsu57 2

do i have to care about what people think about the things i do and the things i say as long as im not offending or hurting any one??
you think its wise just to forget about human shackles and do what you enjoy doing?!

2007-01-31 03:34:22 · 12 answers · asked by Archea 1

There must be something you disagree with.... what are somethings you do not like and would like to sweep off.

2007-01-31 03:32:02 · 11 answers · asked by lizeth g 3

2007-01-31 03:29:24 · 4 answers · asked by mafe j 2

Have you really grasped the implications of death? Why do you still have fear in your heart? Why do so many live their lives as if they get a second shot at it?

2007-01-31 03:28:29 · 12 answers · asked by Immortal Cordova 6

2007-01-31 03:17:02 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-31 03:14:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am sorta :)

2007-01-31 03:11:43 · 23 answers · asked by Shadowgirl 1

if you could tell a lie,and get away with it with another lie,would you lie,and why ?

2007-01-31 02:57:13 · 20 answers · asked by wizard 3

Do you ever talk to people about your goals and they will either say you are crazy or say what you want to do is impossible?

2007-01-31 02:56:20 · 17 answers · asked by Immortal Cordova 6