Philosophy - March 2007

What's the sound of one hand clapping? oh
i first heard this in high school. good times. I didn't really 'get it' until a few years ago though. 8 )

2007-03-20 23:03:12 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-20 22:44:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-20 22:43:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-20 22:36:35 · 19 answers · asked by Indra 2

2007-03-20 22:35:49 · 4 answers · asked by harish shingvi 1

How well are you using each day?

2007-03-20 22:25:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-20 22:23:05 · 8 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1

Life is a war everyday in this competitive world.

2007-03-20 22:16:37 · 19 answers · asked by Arnie 2

if you could ask one question and have it answered what would it be?

mine would be...is there a god? (i think there is but it wouldn't hurt to know for sure ;-)

2007-03-20 22:13:03 · 13 answers · asked by Mark B 2

2007-03-20 22:06:42 · 4 answers · asked by Ylia 4

I don't understand love

2007-03-20 21:50:31 · 10 answers · asked by SD 1

2007-03-20 20:57:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-20 19:53:53 · 21 answers · asked by sandeep h 1

We've all heard "That which does not destroy us makes us stronger." Do you believe it? Do you believe that even the lowest moments in your life are valuable to you and define who you are now, strengths included, or would you change any or all of the low points or bad things in the hope that your life, now, would be better?

2007-03-20 19:47:00 · 21 answers · asked by ophelliaz 4

I have come to understand that there is no reason the universe to exist. There is no reason matter exists. No reason the rules of the universe work the way they do. The fundimentals of the universe don't have any reason why they are the way they are.

For those religous people out there, I am also religous, but religon doesn't change the question. Even if you think that God created the laws of the universe and all matter, there is still a more fundimental reason why God wanted to do what he did which eventually leads to something that doesn't have a reason.

If every reason is based on a chain of events and purposes back to a fundamental level that has no reason doesn't that mean that nothing has a reason?

Example: Why is the Sun hot? Because nuclear reactions inside produce heat. Why? Because energy is released. Why? Because matter is converted to energy. Why? Because of gravity. Why? Because of the laws of the universe. Why? Laws have no reason.

2007-03-20 19:45:37 · 21 answers · asked by Michael M 6

Novels such as Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World predicts that America will enter into an age of oppression and ignorance, where social life suffers and the desire of knowledge dissappears and many just sit home and watch television, or just want to have fun. What do you think America is moving toward?

2007-03-20 19:30:44 · 13 answers · asked by petswodahs 1

Re Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest...

2007-03-20 18:57:01 · 10 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6

Surly it too vast to be confined to the head?

2007-03-20 18:54:22 · 14 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6

Who made you?

2007-03-20 18:51:10 · 14 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6

being a human being what makes u sastisfied in general and is it possible for a mAN to be satified or contented??

2007-03-20 18:37:08 · 13 answers · asked by rugrats_spongebob 1

Wt is the newest subject to learn?tellme

2007-03-20 18:32:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

did learning and determining whether there existed an objective reality that existed independently from your self play a big role in philosophy? or was stuff like external world skepticism and solipsism just hypothetical philosophies that realy didnt play a significant role in anything.what are your opinions on those 2 subjects? arent they pretty much disregarded as false and farfetched subjects?

2007-03-20 18:31:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. Why is it better to be just than unjust, according to Socrates?
2. What does Glaucon try to show with his thought experiments of the ‘ring of Gyges’ and the perfectly just and unjust men?
3. What does Herodotus mean by the claim, “custom is king o’er all?”
4. Explain how morality relates to the categories of ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal,’ according to Benedict.
5. What’s wrong with traditional morality, according to Rand?
6. Why does Mavrodes think morality is “queer” if one does not believe in God?
7. What does the “death of God” mean for morality?
8. What is the most pleasant life according to Epicurus, and why does he say it is most pleasant?
9. Why does Ross say that pleasure is not the only good?
10. What’s the difference between “master morality” and “slave morality,” according to Nietzsche?

2007-03-20 17:56:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

As such I realise that life is pretty unsafe. You do not know what happens to you, which catastrophe could hit you or your loved ones. Look at the news and you know what I am talking about.
Everything material can be snatched away from you in a wink.
What is really safe in our life, when it is not something going above earthly life? What do you experience as safe and secure?

2007-03-20 17:54:43 · 17 answers · asked by I love you too! 6

Tell me all. Kill the databases, create your own wikipedia.

2007-03-20 17:30:59 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-20 17:27:58 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Should we all work together to scientifically determine and actually, truly do WHATEVER it takes to try and get all people to be tollerent enough of eachother to AT LEAST not commit violence on eachother at all levels but especially the highest in terms of combat commited between civilizations and then working on the levels below it, in terms of the largest nations and groups fueding or warring or commiting violence against eachother and working our way down but ultimately not impeading on peoples personal freedoms and rights? And secondly should the other goal of civilization be to figure out the most importent things we need to do, in terms of what are the biggest catastrophic problems currently ongoing and what ones will happen in the future and working to effectively and fully as possible repair or fix or stop or prevent those catastrophies as solutions are determined and implamented to solve the problem or at least minimise it as much as possible as they come up?

2007-03-20 17:25:09 · 4 answers · asked by Stan S 1

when did they homer and hesiod make this discovery??

2007-03-20 17:21:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Good, (lawful good, neutral good or chaotic good) neutral (lawful neutral, neutral, or chaotic neutral), or evil(lawful evil, neutral evil, or chaotic evil).

got those straight out of Fate/stay night series and/or D&D, but I don't believe in fairy tales anyway.

2007-03-20 17:17:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

A metaphysical question...

To you, is perception existence? That is to say, does the world exist outside the mind?

2007-03-20 17:07:19 · 24 answers · asked by pseudoname 3