please answer some phisophical questions...?

Question

Anyone who loves philosophy???
Please answer atleast 3 of them.. or if you can answer them all I'll be glad..
1. Discuss what philosophizing is from what philosophizing is not.
2. Explain, "Man does evil only accidentally due to ignorance."
3. Explain, "The only real in man is his soul."
4. Explain, "Man's body is perfect because it is actual".
5. Explain, "No human action is value-free."
6. Is believing in God an option or a necessity?.. Explain your answer.
7. Why is work a distincly human activity?

Answer 1

Try asking one question at a time, a different one every day. To much is required-- actually, the response would be a dissertation.

Answer 2

1. Philosophizing is guessing. Philosophizing is not fact. There are no absolutes. There are theories. Nothing definite.
2. This statement holds that evil is merely ignorance. I disagree. If someone is ignorant (if they don't know that they are doing wrong) then they can't be evil. Evil implies deliberately choosing to do wrong which would mean that you are not ignorant. You know right from wrong. Ignorance is innocence. Knowledge is guilt. You are only responsible for something if you are aware of it. Very young children who don't know any better can't be labelled evil if they accidentally break something, hurt someone etc. Once we learn the concept of right & wrong we're responsible for our actions & therefore capable of evil.
3. The soul is who you really are. It is the being inside that matters not the shell. The physical body is just temporary & one may say therefore illusory. When it falls away, it is the soul that is left & will live forever. When you think, feel, learn who you are then that is your soul. The body is just the surface & not as important.
4. If one doesn't believe in the soul, because it isn't tangible, they may argue that the concrete is all that matters & therefore the body is all-important since we know it exists based on sensual information (we see, hear, feel, touch, taste).
5. Everything we do has some moral value. It is either a good action or an evil action (if it just appears neutral & has no apparent effect on anyone it would still fall under the "good" category). Anything that is hurting the greatest number of people is evil. Anything that is helping (or at least not hurting) the greatest number is good.
6. Personally I believe in God so it's a necessity for me. I have faith so I can't not believe in Him. However, I don't think it's a necessity for everyone. If someone doesn't happen to believe, if they haven't been exposed to any religion & were raised as atheists (or if they don't have faith) but are still good people & lead good lives (they are not evil & don't hurt others) then I think they will still have a chance of Heaven, whether they believe it or not. I think religious absolutists are missing the point. God is love. He is very forgiving. No matter what religion you are, if you're a good person then you're doing ok. Even if you have no religion, if you are kind to others then you're all right! If on the other hand you are evil & are cruel to others, then you will be punished, whether religion is in your life or not. Hypocrites could march off to church, say that they believe in God & then hurt others behind closed doors. These people are evil & aren't fooling God.
7. Work is a human activity because we're the only ones with money! We work to earn it. That's not to say that other animals don't labour in some capacity: they work to get food. They will toil to store up food for the winter. They work to build shelters (ants build elaborate little cities, bees build hives, beavers build dams, spiders weave webs).

Answer 3

Thats a lot of questions in one go, but here it is.
1.Philosophizing is pondering about difficult questions related to life, or the universe. It is not figuring out concrete and specific answers.
2. Two is a fixed question. It is also an incorrect question. Man cannot do evil accidently due to ignorance, because when he is ignorant he does not know it is evil. He only does evil when he knows it is wrong, but does it anyway.
3. In this question, the real could be referring to the fact that the soul is endless. It cannot cease to exist; however, the flesh is not permanent. It is not real in the sense that it is not permanent.
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5. The reason that no human action is value-free is because every action has a reaction. No matter what someone does, whether it be good or bad, it always affects someone. It may not affect other people, but it still affects the person who is doing the action. The value of the action can be negative, or positive, but it is never zero.
6. Believing in God is a necessity. Without God, then life has no meaning: doing good has no meaning, and doing bad has no meaning. There is no reason to do good without God. All people are instilled with a conscience, and the only possible explanation would be a higher power wanting people to be good.
7. This is another baited question. Who says work is a distinctly human activity? Do not the ants work to create a hive? Do not the birds work to create nests, and to get food? Are you implying that humans are the only people doing activities? Work is by no means a distinctly human activity, because without work, no creature could survive. Everything must work for sustenance and survival, even plants, and microbiology.

Answer 4

1. Philosophizing is questioning the existent phenomena, when u start believing something, its not philosophizing.

2. Ya, because each action of his is an effort to make himself comfortable, when he fails, it is evil for him. He fails, because, he is not knowledgeable enough to make it a success. so it is an accident as it wasn't properly planned, & that was b'coz of ignorance.

3. Ya, b'coz, if u can collect all the components of a body and can run it thru some external energy, it will work mechanically, but it is that peculiarity of human being, which makes him different from his fellowbeings. The reason behing this difference is given a name: soul. so, its that thing which makes a real man, otherwise it is a machine.

4. Whatever works, it is perfect, b'coz, if it isn't, it won't work. Man's body can serve the requirements, it can work of its own, till then it is perfect.

5. Each action which has the capacity to create a reaction has its value of creating it.

6. Option till then, when u have science for u, necessity, when you don't have it.

7. Because Nature did not appoint him as its employee, its human beings who have employed themselves.

Answer 5

#6- well, the answer is different for different people... for some who have to go to church because their family drags them to church, then believeng in God is an option.... But if another person is a Christian (a real one) then most likely they didnt believe god before in their life, and they knew that there was more to life so for them, believing in gos is a necessity.
#7- I dont believe that work is only a human activity.. there are plenty of other creatures on this earth that work just as hard if not harder . Ants work all day and night to collect food for their Queen, and to make new tunnels, and Beavers work all the time to create dams.

Answer 6

answer to Q1: To philosophize, you have to be a good debater, never take no for answer instead try to get out of your flaw and stick to your argument. Not to philosophize is to agree with other's contention, taking over yours in defeat.

answer toQ2: You're right. 'Accidentally' means not done in purpose, or by honest mistake. Your thesis will be wrong if you say it without the word 'accidentally', that would mean the evil done was done on purpose and it wouldn't be by ignorance.

answer to Q3:Your thesis is wrong.Everything that fits in to our ideas and assumes a matter is real. Even your imagination is real by context because you thought about it.

answer to Q4:Perfect is not in congruency with actual. 'Body is perfect' is right by itself adding 'it is actual' would make it a wrong syllogism but both context phrases can be independently right by themselves.

answer to Q5:Every human action is valued. It is a manifestation of our free-will and reasons

answer to Q6: believing in God should be necessary but in reality, it is an option. Subjective truth is an option.

answer to Q7: It is a chain of reactions, goals and purposes heading or intended towards an end. Thus this means, it requires reasons to be able to bring up that end. Only man is capable of reasoning. Though it is flabbergasting how a queen ant can command her workers and warriors to do their share of work, insect instincts I guess.

Answer 7

A true philosopher, is one who loves no thing more than they love wisdom, and the pursuit of it...

Answer 8

#6The human nature has the need to believe in supernatural powers...but still it is your decision whether you believe in god and noone has the right to force you either to believe to or not...so it's optional...

Answer 9

If these are university level questions and you can't answer them, why are you there?

If these are A level questions and you can't answer them, where are you going?

If these are GCSE level questions and you can't answer them, then you are on the road to wisdom.

Answer 10

why you are trying to complicated our life