Philosophy - April 2007

2007-04-05 14:33:06 · 18 answers · asked by PLUTO 6

If you had to choose one extreme or the other, which would it be?

2007-04-05 13:36:42 · 10 answers · asked by resilience 6

the first answer to this question will get best answer,,,, how many "thumbs up" will it get?

2007-04-05 12:38:25 · 5 answers · asked by dlin333 7

I believe it was Bacon who said that "those who say they are happy are missing the point". I know now that this is completely true, that one cannot know if they truly lived a good life until they've seen it, can look back and really see everything. I'm 18 and know this is true looking back on hs, knowing how much more fun, how much happier i could have been. Does anyone know how to approach things though if you don't truly know? I always thought I knew everything, and I now know I knew more than most, but just a few little things would have made a major difference. Anyone know how to approach this?? How do you truly know if you can look back one day and say you are proud and lived a good life, if you can't really know at the this moment in the present??

Looking back now that im a sr, 3 things would have made me blissfully happy if they did. very minor, but would've made me now sleep soundly, completely satisfied. UNBELIEVABLE, but the truth. instead, i feel i wasted a lot.

2007-04-05 12:18:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-05 12:16:43 · 34 answers · asked by MaryBeth 7

Is that possible?

2007-04-05 11:47:21 · 16 answers · asked by 6th Finger 2

2007-04-05 11:01:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does it prevent you from going foward full-force and making progress?

Sometimes I spend more time trying to figure out what I do to build a happy life, then realize that life is passing by and I'm not getting any closer to happiness!

2007-04-05 11:00:03 · 26 answers · asked by Miss.Understanding 3

2007-04-05 10:47:34 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-05 10:43:48 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-05 10:24:39 · 64 answers · asked by ? 6

i need to know the inconsistencies or flaws in solipsism or caretesian skepticism. but i cant use any type of materialist or emierical evidence. i need self refuting flaws within the two ideas.

2007-04-05 09:49:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

You are the most beautiful woman in the world..... Out of all the woman he ever dated. What would you suggest his feelings maybe towards her?
serious inquiries only

2007-04-05 08:38:24 · 31 answers · asked by prettysexycalves 3

2007-04-05 08:36:11 · 8 answers · asked by martin h 6

2007-04-05 08:34:41 · 21 answers · asked by martin h 6

1. We could have been born either sex.
2. We could have been born a Jew, Christian, Muslim.
3. We could have been born where food is plentiful or to a life of starvation.
4. For all the control we had over our birth, we just as well might have been born in Chad, Ethiopia, an Orphan, a Paraplegic, Black, White, Blind, Deaf, Deformed, Sick, Ugly, Beautiful or anyone of a million possibilitys.
5. I might have been born You and Youmight have been born Me.
6. You or I could have been born Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime.
7. Following that Logic (if it is logic) You or I could be the kid at school that other kids make fun of, a blind person that needs help with something but is ignored, an elderly woman/man in a nursing home that has no one to visit her/him, a cripple in a wheelchair. 8. Do you agree then. And this is my point- that we ought do unto others as we would like done unto ourselves? Because for all the control we had over are birth. We might just as well be the other person.

2007-04-05 08:30:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-05 07:47:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think we are trapped .Impossible to go back and lead a natural life.Impossible to run my mind slower. Don'y you smetimes envy your pet?

2007-04-05 07:46:08 · 15 answers · asked by ELBASHA 3

except for solipsism and cartesian skepticism.

2007-04-05 07:33:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

live there life not being able to tell whether reality is real or not? i think that philosophers who beleive that reality and other minds may not be real must be very depressed and a little disturbed to even think that.


everybody else in the world lives there life knowing that it is real and knowing there are other people that the live with. philosophy must also deny psychology AND science.

if you want proof that there are other minds than read wittgensteins private language argument. he shows that a private language is impossible and that in order to have a language there has to be other minds.

2007-04-05 07:26:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Eugenics was created by Francis Galton; in which the best humans beings were not breeding as fast as the inferior ones: foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the "feeble minded" were causing a crisis in the gene pool, leading to the deterioration of the human race. But his theory was taken far beyond its original intention. His "theory" was adopted by Americans, and was promoted by the likes of H.G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Luther Burbank, George Bernard Shaw...research was funded by the Carnegie Foundation, in the U.S...It moved to Germany, and was funded there, by the Rockefeller Foundation, up through 1939...The Germans were very good at it...They set up houses where "mental defectives" were interviewed, than led to the back, and killed via carbon monoxide gas, in the back room, and then their bodies were cremated in another structure, on the property...Eventually, that was expanded into various concentration camps. But it all started here.

2007-04-05 07:05:45 · 15 answers · asked by Charlie Necro 3

2007-04-05 06:59:20 · 14 answers · asked by EarthGirl 6

2007-04-05 06:53:32 · 8 answers · asked by ? 1

2007-04-05 06:31:56 · 8 answers · asked by prophet 1

2007-04-05 06:12:23 · 10 answers · asked by Heatmizer 5

2007-04-05 05:45:13 · 9 answers · asked by Flanflygirl 2

...when you will just die anyway?

2007-04-05 05:39:42 · 12 answers · asked by acinad23 2

do u agree with the theory of self ownership

"Self-ownership or sovereignty of the individual or individual sovereignty is the condition where an individual has the exclusive moral right to control his or her own body and life"

source of description: wikipedia

2007-04-05 05:34:44 · 3 answers · asked by kevin h 3

"Education is simply learning the language of the sheep"
what is your opinion of this statement?

2007-04-05 05:18:13 · 7 answers · asked by kevin h 3

there would have been a creation of all that is and prior to that there would have been nothing, no creation? If all we have is nothing then "God" must have existed prior to this nothing, thus creating nothing within itself and so displacing itself into that nothin as it would have had nwhere else to go? I am in a rush, bad grammer and such please disregard

2007-04-05 05:07:48 · 13 answers · asked by jonas_tripps_79 2