I bet you have your own philosophy. Yes you. Perhaps it's helped propel you to do extraordinary things in your life. You've reasoned with life somehow.
My silly question is...
how did your philosophy get there -- was it arbitrary? What fortunate things happened that forever separated you from the rest?
2007-12-05 13:48:58 · 4 answers · asked by craukymuvilla 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You're correct: everyone does have a philosophy. For 99% of all humans, they never think about it, so it may be lacking in integrity, meaning they have contradictions, acting or thinking one way this time, another the next time.
If you want a philosophy with integrity, start at the begining, and I don't mean with Plato or Aristotle. I mean, start with the subjects themselves and learn them.
There are 102 in the Syntopicon of the Great Books of the Western World. They are fun to contemplate, and you'll want to cross reference them all the time you're reading.
Then, you graduate--you get to read the first philosopher who's ideas grabbed you. But don't stop there. Never stop. Philosophy never stops, and once you are hooked, you can think independently of all these "yahoo answerers."
The Syntopicon
"... any one is capable of carrying on and articulating what has once been well outlined..." Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Chapter 7
To show how to use The Syntopicon, the index of topics edited by Mortimer J. Adler for Great Books of the Western World, we selected Happiness from The Great Ideas, listed below. The thousands of topics discussed in The Great Books are organized in The Syntopicon under The Great Ideas, 102 in number. Each of The Great Ideas includes an Introduction, Outline of Topics, References, Cross-References, and Additional Readings. For further explanation, see the Editor's Notes in Happiness. We also include a link to Mark Whitman's on-line version of The Syntopicon's chapter on The Great Idea of War and Peace.
Index of Ideas
Angel; Animal; Aristocracy; Art; Astronomy; Beauty; Being; Cause; Chance; Change; Citizen; Constitution; Courage; Custom and Convention; Definition; Democracy; Desire; Dialectic; Duty; Education; Element; Emotion; Eternity; Evolution; Experience; Family; Fate; Form; God; Good and Evil; Government; Habit; Happiness; History; Honor; Hypothesis; Idea; Immortality; Induction; Infinity; Judgment; Justice; Knowledge; Labor; Language; Law; Liberty; Life and Death; Logic; Love; Man; Mathematics; Matter; Mechanics; Medicine; Memory and Imagination; Metaphysics; Mind; Monarchy; Nature; Necessity and Contingency; Oligarchy; One and Many; Opinion; Opposition; Philosophy; Physics; Pleasure and Pain; Poetry; Principle; Progress; Prophecy; Prudence; Punishment; Quality; Quantity; Reasoning; Relation; Religion; Revolution; Rhetoric; Same and Other; Science; Sense; Sign and Symbol; Sin; Slavery; Soul; Space; State; Temperance; Theology; Time; Truth; Tyranny; Universal and Particular; Virtue and Vice; War and Peace; Wealth; Will; Wisdom; World
2007-12-05 14:17:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
my philosophy helps me think in other ways. I am only 16, so I haven't changed the world yet (KEY WORD: YET--I'm coming so the world best be watching),but I did get a 100% on one of Mr. Theriault's tests in the seventh grade. Sounds lame, but in reality you need to be better than Hercules to do that.
P.S. Hercules is my great great great great great...(Yeah yeah yeah, you get the picture) granddaddy.
2007-12-05 22:25:22 · answer #2 · answered by Jenna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funnacial minds...
My philosophy just got in your way by arbitrarial reason...
Loneliness, perhaps?
2007-12-05 22:30:42 · answer #3 · answered by wacky_racer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a combination of genetics and environment.
2007-12-05 21:54:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋