2007-10-26 19:57:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Experience shows that thoughtless actions more often than not backfire. The signifying feature of human beings is to analyze, anticipate and plan, which is what is the prime function of the thinking process. Idle thoughts, however, are not only unnecessary but also harmful in several ways.
2007-10-26 20:17:42 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always thought so.
I think therefore I am, so if I cannot think then I have no thought. I am dead. So I believe thought would be necessary to stay alive.
2007-10-27 04:47:19 · answer #2 · answered by the old dog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is for the survival of man, yes. As for animals, it is debatable. I think that animals think to some extent, but it is not the force for them that instincts are, instincts which by the way, humans do not have. We have intuition, "the direct and immediate apprehension by a knowing subject of itself, of its conscious states, of other minds, of an external world, of universals, of values of of rational truths."
This the animals have--if at all-only in extremely limited amounts, and only at rare moments.
2007-10-28 13:17:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-10-31 02:51:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a desire for improvement.
2007-10-31 02:44:24 · answer #5 · answered by simplesimon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋