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Do you believe that all thoughts necessitate matter? Would you care to elaborate?

2006-12-05 12:26:29 · 6 answers · asked by jonas_tripps_79 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

6 answers

no and yes.

2006-12-05 12:38:22 · answer #1 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0 2

All thought is product of brain, so despite metaphysical posturing, thoughts necessitate matter.

2006-12-05 21:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

An origin is a singularity. Awareness or consciousness is not itself in disunity and is oneness. Do I wittness the creation of each moment? Yes. Do I identify eveything in that moment? No. Do you believe all matter necessitates thought? I think 'not'.

"Φ 207. Hence the Unhappy Consciousness (1) the Alienated Soul which is the consciousness of self as a divided nature, a doubled and merely contradictory being.

Φ 208. This unhappy consciousness, divided and at variance within itself, must, because this contradiction of its essential nature is felt to be a single consciousness, always have in the one consciousness the other also; and thus must be straightway driven out of each in turn, when it thinks it has therein attained to the victory and rest of unity. Its true return into itself, or reconciliation with itself, will, however, display the notion of mind endowed with a life and existence of its own, because it implicitly involves the fact that, while being an undivided consciousness, it is a double-consciousness. It is itself the gazing of one self-consciousness into another, and itself is both, and the unity of both is also its own essence; but objectively and consciously it is not yet this essence itself — is not yet the unity of both. "
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phbb.htm

"Thought in its bearings upon objects
§ 21

(b) Thought was described as active. We now, in the second place, consider this action in its bearings upon objects, or as reflection upon something. In this case the universal or product of its operation contains the value of the thing — is the essential, inward, and true.

In § 5 the old belief was quoted that the reality in object, circumstance, or event, the intrinsic worth or essence, the thing on which everything depends, is not a self-evident datum of consciousness, or coincident with the first appearance and impression of the object; that, on the contrary, Reflection is required in order to discover the real constitution of the object — and that by such reflection it will be ascertained. "

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/sl_ii.htm#SL21

"§24n

(1) To speak of thought or objective thought as the heart and soul of the world, may seem to be ascribing consciousness to the things of nature. We feel a certain repugnance against making thought the inward function of things, especially as we speak of thought as marking the divergence of man from nature. It would be necessary, therefore, if we use the term thought at all, to speak of nature as the system of unconscious thought, or, to use Schelling’s expression, a petrified intelligence. And in order to prevent misconception, ‘thought-form’ or ‘thought-type’ should be substituted for the ambiguous term thought.

From what has been said the principles of logic are to be sought in a system of thought-types or fundamental categories, in which the opposition between subjective and objective, in its usual sense vanishes. The signification thus attached to thought and its characteristic forms may be illustrated by the ancient saying that ‘nous governs the world’, or by our own phrase that ‘Reason is in the world’; which means that Reason is the soul of the world it inhabits, its immanent principle, its most proper and inward nature, its universal. Another illustration is offered by the circumstance that in speaking of some definite animal we say it is (an) animal. Now, the animal, qua animal, cannot be shown; nothing can be pointed out excepting some special animal. Animal, qua animal, does not exist: it is merely the universal nature of the individual animals, while each existing animal is a more concretely defined and particularised thing. But to be an animal — the law of kind which is the universal in this case — is the property of the particular animal, and constitutes its definite essence. Take away from the dog its animality, and it becomes impossible to say what it is. All things have a permanent inward nature, as well as an outward existence. They live and die, arise and pass away; but their essential and universal part is the kind; and this means much more than something common to them all."


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/sl_ii.htm#SL24n

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/li_terms.htm

2006-12-05 21:06:36 · answer #3 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0 2

How could you know such a thing without being truely enlightened. Thought itself derives from nothing, a mere void and all matter in the end is itself only a temporary state and sense all things come and go, ebb and flow, to have a fixed notion of it cannot grasp it's whole truth!

2006-12-05 20:39:11 · answer #4 · answered by namazanyc 4 · 0 2

I believe all thought comes from the only thinker,God. From out of the mind of God we attract unto us those thoughts of which we choose to have manifested in our life,the good,the bad and the ugly. The mind is not for thinking, the mind is for receiving thought. Once a thought is accepted as real then it will be manifested in your life.

2006-12-05 22:06:48 · answer #5 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0 1

They only matter to the person with the thought!
if they share it ... thus communication!
or action!
so it falls down to what type of person are you?
Proactive reactive??

2006-12-05 21:52:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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