does philosophy assume the existence of other minds and the external world?

Question

except for solipsism and cartesian skepticism.

Answer 1

Except for those two, I would think so. Can't think of any other that doesn't.

Answer 2

philosophy doesn't have a mind of its own, it can't assume anything!
Philosophers however (assuming that there is such a thing, lol) do not 'necessarily' make such assumptions. Some make the assumption un-neccessarily however.
All philosophy assumes some things...and what it assumes typically depends on the problem it's trying to tackle. It's all quite axiomatic. Though many philosophies may make presumtions about the existence of other minds, it does not necessarily mean that any particular philosophy necessarily subscribes to such a belief - only that it makes that assumption in order to see what follows from it.

-Rob

Answer 3

You may find some answers in the old Sanskrit scripts.

Indian Vedanta and culture is so deep and vast, and the ancient Rishis experimented various possiblities of human conciousness through techniques like meditation, and explored the universe in various ways. Yoga Vasishta even discusses techniques like Time Travel (Akshagamana) - and explains how human conciousness and mind can be fine tuned to attain such realms.

According to Vedanta, the whole nature (observing phenomena) is part of the self (observer), and there is no duality between the two (Advaita). According to Kaku, the String theory describes that the whole matter is nothing much vibration of energy.


Science knows that the base or substratum of matter is energy. Vendanta goes further - it explains the whole matter as vibration in the level of energy (much before Einstien), and continues further, to explain that the substratum or base of whole energy is conciousness (Prajna).

And Vedanta concludes that the Prajna is the divine (Prajnanam Brahma), and all beings are just the manifestation of the same conciousness (Aham Brahmasmi, That-tvam Asi).

And, Vedanta explains that the maximum possibility of Human life is to realize this conciousness- to be one with it. This can be experienced by anyone, by controlling his mind, like various masters at various ages did (Krishna, Buddha, Nabi, Jesus, Guru Gobind etc)

May be science is coming closer to reality.. Who knows.

Answer 4

Such things have been proven over and over again. The only real distinction between those groups you mention and the others is your groups do not find the proof sufficient, while others do.

Answer 5

You mean there is another world you call it what, external.....LOL...Oh, I get it, you mean there's an internal world...LOL.

I told you Jones, there is another one. That's where Mr. Cartesius got the idea from, but he didn't tell, or did he?

I guess you're not looking hard enough...lol

Good luck!

Answer 6

philosophy assumes nothing that is its beauty