Philosophy - March 2007

your cell phone, your computer, or your television?

2007-03-29 16:30:15 · 40 answers · asked by BooBooKins 5

2007-03-29 16:02:22 · 12 answers · asked by BooBooKins 5

2007-03-29 15:33:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it wrong to do something entirely for oneself? Not in the sense of for greed or to aquire some ridiculous want, but in the sense of doing something for oneself because one needs to take some time away or one needs to perservere through something to help something work out for the best.

2007-03-29 15:29:19 · 19 answers · asked by Kiara 5

Given that the universe is infinite and the center is a point equidistant from all sides.

2007-03-29 15:24:48 · 24 answers · asked by answer man 3

What natural objects, ideas, and things might represent wisdom and/or intelligence? These things can be animals, general things, such as waves or the sun, plants, and possibly some simple man-made objects, such as arrows.

2007-03-29 14:55:20 · 12 answers · asked by ☢☠☣☢☠☣ 3

2007-03-29 14:38:20 · 15 answers · asked by Sofia 1

a friend ask me this question but i don't know how to answer all i know is beauty is too abstract.

2007-03-29 14:28:00 · 14 answers · asked by x x 1

How do people become wicked, Does everyone start out with the same amount of good, and the same amount of evil, what makes them choose their "side"? Is it the envirement they grow up in, but then why do some nice people grow up around evil people, and visa versa?

2007-03-29 14:23:19 · 12 answers · asked by Patricia B 2

If after everything there is space, and space is something, then what's "nothing", I mean after space isn't there just space? I see "nothing" as more of a figure of speach, that just means the lacking, or apsense of something.

2007-03-29 14:17:14 · 11 answers · asked by Patricia B 2

Wich philosopher believes that we are the result of the decisions we make, more than the result of chance or of the secret plan of a deity?

2007-03-29 14:13:05 · 2 answers · asked by Blur 1

This has been a question that many have argued over, we know it fell, and we assume from our priar knowlage it made a noise, but if nobody heard it, did it really?

2007-03-29 14:09:36 · 19 answers · asked by Patricia B 2

2007-03-29 14:07:37 · 15 answers · asked by Cincinnati Jack 2

2007-03-29 14:04:53 · 3 answers · asked by . 2

Given that in exercising one's will, one unites one's consciousness with another phenomena, in consciousness, and thus will is of the nature of love, is love to be considered of primary import, or is the will ? Is the distinction arbitrary ? Or a willed choice, and thus, reductiat ad absurdum ...

2007-03-29 13:27:15 · 7 answers · asked by Thelemic Warrior 3

I like to say I'm a student of human nature.....

2007-03-29 13:19:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-29 13:08:21 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Duties are either positive or negative. If a duty is natural, then humans must be subject to that duty at birth. If one is subject to a duty, then she is capable of fulfilling it. Humans are not capable of fulfilling positive duties at birth and therefore are not subject to them. And so as humans are not subject to positive duties at birth, positive duties are not natural. Humans are capable, however, of fulfilling negative duties at birth (for to do so they need do nothing). In being capable of fulfilling these duties, it follows that humans are subject to them. So as it is the case that humans are subject to negative duties at birth, it follows that negative duties are natural. That which is natural is clearly prior to that which is artificial or conventional. Thereby anything artificial or conventional must come from something that is natural. However this is a self-contradiction. A pure duty is one that exists without a triggering action, and so there can be no pure positive duties

2007-03-29 13:02:03 · 9 answers · asked by ithy7c 1

2007-03-29 12:50:51 · 15 answers · asked by Miss Casey 4

Everytime I ask myself that my mind goes blank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyway if someone have an answer please put in ur 2 cents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-03-29 12:50:35 · 9 answers · asked by tak9393 1

No capisco.

2007-03-29 12:43:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are successful people happy...?
I keep hearing about tips on being happy. Many recommend making goals, writing down goals, accomplishing goals, etc. So I'm wondering, is being happy basically come down to accomplishment? Is that what makes people really happy?
Are people who've "accomplished their dreams" set for life, and wake up every morning extremely happy and have no worries? Why go through all the extra effort and arduous tasks needed to become successful if happiness isn't guaranteed? You could end up living as a machine, tirelessly pursuing happiness but never quite catching it.

2007-03-29 12:42:33 · 8 answers · asked by mattdawson75 1

2007-03-29 12:32:14 · 15 answers · asked by Hot Coco Puff 7

Maude: What kind of flower would you like to be?
Harold: I don't know. One of these, maybe.(points to a huge bed of daisies)
Maude: Why do you say that?
Harold: Because they're all alike.
Maude: Oh, but they're NOT! Look. See, some are smaller; some are
fatter; some grow to the left, some to the right; some even have lost
some petals. All kinds of observable differences! You see, Harold, I
feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*,(points to one daisy)
yet allow themselves to be treated as *that*. (points to the huge bed of daisies)

From the best movie Harold and Maude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwVxQWVY4fE

2007-03-29 12:28:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

in each of the following subjects what exactly do they consist of and what is there to learn from them?

epistemology,

ethics

metaphysics

2007-03-29 12:21:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-29 12:10:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-29 11:43:45 · 17 answers · asked by Source 4

Are they incompatible, or can there be an amalgamation of free will and determinism?

For example, could it be that inconsequential (or seemingly inconsequential) events are not determined, but that grave events are?

Maybe I will eat an apple today. Or, I may choose a candy bar. Maybe it will have some impact on future events, especially if we were to go far enough in the future. But what if something of this nature has no impact at all on the future?

Perhaps these trivial matters are not governed by fate. Maybe it will not matter if I watch T.V. or read a book tomorrow.

But maybe it does matter if I choose to become a politician, or if I choose (through what may be an illusion of choice) to work as a janitor instead as a career choice. Could these seemingly more important selections be preordained?

But if determinism is true, then how can God hold us accountable for our sins?

2007-03-29 11:34:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-29 11:18:58 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-29 11:06:07 · 3 answers · asked by STORMY K 3