Philosophy - July 2007

My second question is about opposites. I hear many people say that to have peace on must have war, cold - heat, etc.But I was wondering who defines opposites but ourselves. Arent opposites defined by our own limitation and what are opposites but two sides of the same coin. like cold a lesser form of heat. So who says opposites need each other? the universe we live in is a dynamic one, so opposites are understood through variations of intensity, like different levels of frequencys. So who can say there are two set of opposites that need each other to exist? who says that it is not more like a circle where there are no bounderies, we define the bounderies? I understand that to know cold one needs heat, but where does heat end and cold start?
good and bad, are they not the result of each other? if one has no good, one has no bad, so peace is a reaction of war, or rather peace is war made less intense? could the concept or abstract of good and bad be destroyed, and would that not be peace

2007-07-09 09:29:43 · 5 answers · asked by Lorenzo de' Medici 1

2007-07-09 09:21:58 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

if theres a person (call them A) and we are B if b isnt human can A be perfect, if not, B is human A isnt now can it be perfect? if neither A or B are human can it be perfect... its immpossible to figure i fear for we are human (are we?) while thinking this, figure that in to ur calculations

2007-07-09 09:20:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

So if (ok pre-Gettier) S knows P if and only if:
1. S believes/accepts P
2. Is justified in believing/accepting P
3. P is true
How does S know that he knows P? His only reasons for supposing that P is true is his justification. If that justification falls short of certainty then he may be justified in believing a false proposition. All theories of knowledge that look at justification (reliabalism etc) fall short of certainty. There appear to be two solutions:
1. Short of times when he is certain S cannot know that he knows P
2. S can know P even if it is false.

What do you reckon?

2007-07-09 09:10:03 · 4 answers · asked by anthonypaullloyd 5

we will enjoy human freedom.

2007-07-09 09:06:12 · 12 answers · asked by roberth m 5

I mean does only IQ is important or you believed that we need other mental abilities to make a difference in this world?

2007-07-09 08:57:21 · 13 answers · asked by Jedi squirrels 5

i luv it

2007-07-09 08:34:45 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do you really know the different between one or the other?

2007-07-09 08:24:44 · 12 answers · asked by Mess 2

How can you get over that?

2007-07-09 08:20:15 · 21 answers · asked by scoopie110 4

give me your thoughts and i'll share mine

2007-07-09 07:56:26 · 4 answers · asked by bandawagon25 2

What is between these two people? Are there any feelings from any side?
A guy wrote to a girl after she said she loved him: ''...You weren't open and honest, again and again you kept telling me and other people that all you wanted was friendship. And I felt bad that I was not really able to give you that friendship, because it felt somehow weird. But all you've been doing was lying. Don't get me wrong, I'd probably done the same, but how I should have made that clean cut if I was not sure it'd be necessary. You call me a coward, but what are you? A victim of your love?''

2007-07-09 07:54:47 · 5 answers · asked by Kitty C 1

:-)

2007-07-09 07:54:13 · 33 answers · asked by enki 4

i have a beautiful 6 month old child and he is perfect in every way but i want to know where his character comes from
(at 6 months he is already funnier than me)
God explains a lot but it is also a cover up as well
if it turns out good it was gods will if not you were a sinner and all that
please help im going nuts

2007-07-09 07:36:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-09 07:34:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are accountants required to compose their own personal philosophy of accounting? What about a personal philosophy of nursing for nurses? or lawyers? physicians? physicists? economists? astronauts? Google the term "personal educational philosophy." Read some of the hits. These documents range from the insipid to the inane. What is the practical, professional value of this exercise? What makes educators so unique that they each need their own personal philosophy of education while other professions manage quite well without them? ( I should mention that the recommended length for this document is "not more than 2 pages" ! ) Doesn't this exercise turn philosophy into a term or field of study that becomes so relative as to be meaningless? Doesn't this weaken educators' standing in academic and professional communities instead of strengthening it?

2007-07-09 07:30:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Life is dominated by two spirits. One is powerful and one is weak. One controls the other is controlled. One leads the other is led. Everything is vulnerable and everything is powerful. There is great dissatisfaction at either extreme. I try to make myself stronger, I learn, I adapt, but at the same time I want to be vulnerable. I want to be known. I want to be helped and supported. A seedling struggles to survive and compete for light and space and it is strong because it needs. A girl dreams of a man who is strong and vulnerable, who can fight and who can cry. We'd like to know powerful people and people who can help us, but there is no friendship unless we are able to help them. To connect with a mouse one must show the mouse inside oneself.

2007-07-09 07:29:04 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Socrates listen to his "Daemonic voice" Sign (intuition)

Divine, independent of your own thoughts.....................

What sign did you get and how did it warn you or benefit your life in poetry, mysticism, the arts anything creative even Philosophy itself??? :))))))))))))))))

2007-07-09 07:27:48 · 8 answers · asked by Rita 6

First my family because of the problems we faced... serious ones... made me mature enough to think on my own.
Second books.
Third myself cause I faced some things alone and even if I lost or won I still managed to keep myself on mental balance and fizical as well.
This made me who I am today a beginer horror/sf writer who wants to revolutionize the genre or at least for my country.... but personaly I think I want to revolutionize for the people that just stand and don`t progress on the scale of intelect = evolution.

2007-07-09 07:11:25 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-09 07:09:54 · 8 answers · asked by bodhran42 2

2007-07-09 07:06:11 · 9 answers · asked by Junior 4

We change as time goes by, aiming for our visions of perfection. Yet, deep inside, we're still the same. Is that true?

2007-07-09 06:56:42 · 3 answers · asked by Master Strategist 4

i just will like to know what your best life advise is??

2007-07-09 06:46:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

everybody here explain me please!

2007-07-09 06:35:12 · 27 answers · asked by roberth m 5

Deep I know but Hypothetically. If you took away the need for money, meaning everyone would have the same things.......... and everyone worked to the benefit of developing the human race and their own personal development of knowledge etc, with no worry of paying bills/living. How would you do it........?? Could it work...?? If it worked what kind of a world would we live in...?? Example of which is - There would be no limitation to the development of a cure for cancer as there would be no limitations of funding to consider. Therefore a cure would be found quicker because they wouldn't have to wait for the next cheque......!!!!!

2007-07-09 06:32:00 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

In my Sociology class we were talkin about races and stuff and my professor said that Caucasian people have a distinct advantage in every aspect of their life in the United States. She is a Caucasian herself and she said "Especially in the dating world and the nightlife...they are the superior ones"

I couldn't exactly comprehend what she meant

Most of my classmates seemed to agree (about 23 outta 30 of us thru a show of hands by her statement)

IS that somewhat true? How??

2007-07-09 06:12:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

please provide serious answers.

2007-07-09 06:05:57 · 8 answers · asked by bandawagon25 2

I could natter on here about my thoughts in the matter, but I think it will yield me more if I just read your answers to my question without trying to 'clarify' the question further, constraining you to answer a question made perhaps too narrow by my mistaken assumptions as to what constitutes 'clarification' .

Perhaps I'll think better thoughts after you tell me yours.

2007-07-09 05:55:39 · 9 answers · asked by skumpfsklub 6

I thought love is a good thing :)))

2007-07-09 05:36:36 · 26 answers · asked by Rita 6

Kind of like you knew or undertood things before every one else did?

2007-07-09 05:31:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've seen both of these movies, I will admit they can be challenging to understand but once you open your mind to possibilities and you soon realize you understand it. Like "the secret" it's no brainer, law of attraction, I've tried the methods that it suggests and it has worked for me. All it takes is an open mind to think it is possible. We all were taught anything is possible in this world, why not manifest the things we want out of life. Being positive brings positive actions and negative thoughts bring negative things. Believe me I've tried it both ways, and it has happened to me. It will be different with each person. To some or most, it might work depending on you and your beliefs.

2007-07-09 05:23:44 · 5 answers · asked by t_hassinger 2