Philosophy - September 2007

2007-09-12 18:42:05 · 17 answers · asked by shylla s 1

2007-09-12 18:20:16 · 4 answers · asked by mirandahurtado@sbcglobal.net 1

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/10/5937

With the exception of humans, primates, dolphins, elephants, and a few others, most animals do not pass the mirror-recognition test. So if these animals lack "ability to recognize oneself", do they really suffer in the same sense that we do?

(Links would be appreciated)

2007-09-12 18:12:01 · 7 answers · asked by bob135 4

I would if it wasn't for this stupid beeaach Erin! (lol)

2007-09-12 18:04:41 · 3 answers · asked by Robert B 2

2007-09-12 17:48:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Let me elaborate. I'm trying to improve my brain power and I've been trying to read as much as possible, but during those times when I don't have a book or anything to read I start thinking about random and useless things. What is one supposed to think about to increase his/her IQ, like what kind of questions should one ask him/herself to stimulate the mind?

Hypothetically lets say I'm locked in a white room with nothing around.

2007-09-12 17:39:55 · 15 answers · asked by The New Guy 2

2007-09-12 17:19:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-12 17:04:50 · 34 answers · asked by Jean Anderson 3

Do we really need to question the books or doctrines or just follow them without any doubt ?

2007-09-12 16:59:28 · 7 answers · asked by The More I learn The More I'm Uneducated 5

Or do you take the shortcut and allow the pressure of the moment to make you do something dishonest or dishonerable??

2007-09-12 16:48:06 · 21 answers · asked by Rita 6

well, if you blind folded yourself for a day or a week, as per your capability then you would experience a different world beside sharpening your alternate senses. the same can be repeated by numbing any other part of your body. what do you say ?

2007-09-12 16:33:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

lets say in some way and somehow reality isnt real and you are indeed living in a dream/illusion.

could you still fnd meaning in your life? how and why? doesnt the idea that your loved ones, family, friends, pets, effort put into your career etc. are all meaningless cause it isnt real bother you?

yes you an choose happiness in this illusion. but can you even feel connectedness to "others". and how do you know what to beleive in reality or not?

2007-09-12 16:16:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-12 16:15:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-12 16:10:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could someone give me some examples and tell me what this applies to?

2007-09-12 16:07:54 · 7 answers · asked by Elija Smith 1

Do you prefer to have something (an object, status, goal, object of desire, etc) or to want it? Is one state more pleasing or satisying than the other? And do wanting and having make you feel satisfied or dissatisfied in different ways?

2007-09-12 15:58:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-12 15:47:00 · 11 answers · asked by kickinupfunf 6

Is it when it is universally believed? How about for an individual? In History?

2007-09-12 15:39:18 · 25 answers · asked by Praire Crone 7

2007-09-12 15:13:37 · 11 answers · asked by Nix 2

Doing a paper for philosophy and I am wondering what other people think about this.

A ship is built and begins a voyage around the world. In the course of the long voyage, parts of the ship inevitably break. The voyage continues and one by one the broken parts are replaced using new parts that are identical to the original parts. By the time the ship returns to its home port, all of its parts have been replaced in this way (literally, every single part, from the framing to the hull to the deck and right down to the last nut and bolt and speck of paint...everything). At the end of the voyage, is it the same ship or is it a different ship? Or is it something other than the same or different? Explain.

2007-09-12 15:11:20 · 32 answers · asked by Vin 2

What keeps a person true and honest when it is so easy to lie and deceive here? How much of the virtue of truthfulness do we uphold when we know that no one would know any better if we tempt a deception?

"Perhaps nobody yet has been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Care to share?

p/s – forgive my capitalization, a la Enki. I simply miss seeing his questions here.

2007-09-12 14:54:37 · 20 answers · asked by shahrizat 4

2007-09-12 14:42:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm curious to hear some thoughts on the issue. I am not entirely sure what I believe, but I know I don't believe in fire and brimstone or dooms day. I think if we as humans don't take care of our planet, our race will slowly die out. For if we are one with the earth, nature and the universe, and treat it well. It will treat you well in return. You get what you give. Any thoughts?

2007-09-12 14:32:56 · 12 answers · asked by Caduceus of Hermes 3

2007-09-12 14:31:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-12 14:30:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-12 14:26:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-12 14:23:55 · 10 answers · asked by reaper_666_xrp 2

1. Do not think dishonestly.
2. The Way is in training.
3. Become acquainted with every art.
4. Know the Ways of all professions.
5. Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters.
6. Develop intuitive judgment and understanding for everything
7. Percieve those things which cannot be seen.
8. Pay attention even to trifles.
9. Do nothing which is of no use.
- Musashi Miyamoto, A Book Of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho)

"Do nothing which is of no use."
Miyamoto Musashi

"In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won."
Miyamoto Musashi

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
Matsuo Basho

"There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things - The Buddah

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
Bruce Lee

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
Bruce Lee

"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
Bruce Lee

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
Bruce Lee

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
Bruce Lee

"The Japanese master Nan-in gave audience to a professor of philosophy. Serving tea, Nan-in filled his visitor's cup, and kept pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could restrain himself no longer: "Stop! The cup is over full, no more will go in." Nan-in said: "Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."

"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)

"You see, but you do not observe."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)

"A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so."
Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)

"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot."
Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)

"Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it." -
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either." -
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)

"I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem" -
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) (Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet)

"It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task."
Virgil

"Mind moves matter."
Virgil

"The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety."
Virgil

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. "
Virgil

"There's a snake lurking in the grass."
Virgil


"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. "
Virgil

"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."
Virgil

"Flectere si nequeo Superos,
Acheronta movebo."
(If I cannot move heaven
I'll raise hell)
Virgil

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.”
Thomas Jefferson

"Veni, Vidi Vici"
(I came, I saw, I conquered. )
Julius Caesar

"I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."
Julius Caesar

"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."
Julius Caesar

2007-09-12 14:22:41 · 5 answers · asked by LNC 3

How can I keep from feeling like a mouse running in a wheel that never gets anywhere? Lately, I'm having a hard time distracting myself from our collective impending doom.

2007-09-12 14:21:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-12 14:14:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous