this question is for those who know about philosophy-- can you xplain dis- "being is. being is not?

Question

this question is about my ancient philosophy subject!

Answer 1

Being is the category of all things that exist

It exists.

But it is also the most hard to know thing that exists, with no vantage point from which to analyze it, that isn't already involved IN being.

So, we don't have but a terrible, everyday understanding of what being is. And so it does not exist, possibly, in the appropriate way in which we may refer to "it" meaningfully.

The greeks held it as a curiosity that there is something rather than nothing. And where could being come from except ex nihlio? Parmenides held that the totality of things is one substance, which IS really undifferentiated and undergoes no change. If we totalize being in this way, than all of our daily perceptions are of misguided appearances. What seems to exist, in a differentiated sense, is not the case. So being in this binary sense, as total object is quite blinding and renders all of our understanding of existence as illusory. At that conceptual edge, it may very well be a synonym for non-being.

Answer 2

This was written by a very smart man, but a fool by a wise mans standards. You do not have to think to be. Observe the flowers, they do not toil like man, yet do they not exist? Thoughts are judgments, which can be powerful tools, if used properly. The trouble is that most people can not STOP thinking and that is dangerous, like a carpenter who never puts down his hammer. Thoughts are re-hashes of the past. These 'mind-objects' distract us from being present in the now. Engrossing ourselves in what is going on in real life.

Answer 3

Bono seems to understand my take on such an idea. You can say you exist, yet sense your state of existance is in constant flux, the you that existed a few minutes ago is different than the you that exists now. The Buddhist idea then, is to see notions of past present and future as illusionary constructs that we use as expedients to explain things that are beyond mere words. Therefore the concept becomes to ignore notions of discriminationary thinking and search of the matter at hand and the unified sense of harmony that guides such!

Answer 4

Being is - being is not - a simple process of knowing that being is what we are each and every day that we draw breath, but being is not is when we choose not to make those days count - we must ever be about the act of being in order that we serve a higher purpose than just ourselves - being is not - is to serve nothing but self.

Answer 5

This is Metaphysical Question. A type of Zen Philosophy. My Friend I would suggest u to read "Tao of physics"

Answer 6

Descartes - "I think therefore I am" questioned whether and what existence is. So if a rock cannot think does that mean it does not exist?

Answer 7

http://www.albany.edu/~rn774/fall96/philos.html
Try this website.