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My Top Philosophical Questions

"Maybe because there are no patents in philosophy?"

True, but I thought it was part and parcel of the procedure, lets say, honourable to acknowledge where one gets their thoughts, arguments or continuations of lines of thought from.
 
asking the same question that a lot of people have asked in the past isn't the same as using someone else's arguments or thoughts as your own. when one asks "what's the purpose of life?" they aren't implying that this question hasn't been asked before and that they were the first to ask it. it might be that they just happen to also want to know the answer to the question and find that question pertinent.
 
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Oh no, but you have to CITE all philosophical references. Because of course, the handful of authors you read in college are the source of all knowledge...
 
Thursday, that really is simplifying the post in regards to some of the questions posted above. My point being some of the questions posted are direct lines and theories from some highly recognised philosophy as well as being posted by those who should know better. Would it not have been better to say something along the lines of,

1) what is (whatever) have to do with the relation of (whatever) as put forward by (whomever)


I mean lets face, if you are going to talk the philo talk well then theres a lot of name dropping to be done %)
 
Is everything made up just for my benifit? When I die will everything I know dissapear entirely? Not just to myself, but to everything else will it dissapear?....and then will I be God? to reflect on everything that I imagined in this world....am I God now?...

Absurd.....maybe.
 
This is easy. :)

1.) What's the meaning of life?
2.) What constitutes moral actions, if they even exist?
3.) What's the answer to the "problem of evil"?
4.) Are there any final truths?
5.) Is pragmatism correct? ;)

I thought about asking if there's a God or not, but decided that it would mean more to me to learn about morality than whether or not God exists.
 
why do we sleep ?
when will we wake up?
how do you wake yourself uP?
how do you wake others up and help them become aware that they have been sleeping ?

whats for breakfast ¿
 
1. Can the absolute truth be attained through the same approach we are using to attain the final truth?
2. What effect would infinite life-span have on the human mentality?
3. What makes a human? What will the now-modern humans be to whatever we'll become in 2M years?
4. Is it possibly to build a functioning anarchical society?
5. Where would the humanity be at this point if there were no 'world' religions? And will they ever leave us alone? :\



skjalff
 
"why" and "why not" are just inverses of the same question

T=x1+x2, where x1<T && x2<T && x1!=x2
sum of reasons why to-? =x1
sum of reasons why not-to? =x2
T could be the net resultant for the entirety of considerations, +&-

asking "why" you know x1 wanting x2=T-x1
asking "why not" you know x2 wanting x1=T-x2


skjalff
 
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tally-ho said:
Thursday, that really is simplifying the post in regards to some of the questions posted above. My point being some of the questions posted are direct lines and theories from some highly recognised philosophy as well as being posted by those who should know better. Would it not have been better to say something along the lines of,

1) what is (whatever) have to do with the relation of (whatever) as put forward by (whomever)


I mean lets face, if you are going to talk the philo talk well then theres a lot of name dropping to be done %)
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you lost me. what specific questions are you talking about, and how would you prefer to have them phrased?
 
Wise_Rabbit said:
because lifes never gonna be perfect, true happiness is reached in learning to be content with what you have.....

........... bullet proof monk.

(ooohhhh thats original)

;)
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but that's the whole point of trying to achieve progress--is to bring life closer to perfection. thus there are people out there trying to cure diseases, trying to make life more comfortable, trying to make our social stratification more egalitarian, etc.

i'm on to those hotdog & hotdog bun manufacturers. they're trying to make us buy 4 packs of hotdogs and 5 packs of buns every time rather than just buying 1 pack of each and risk wasting 2 hotdogs. it's a marketing ploy!
 
skjalff said:
"why" and "why not" are just inverses of the same question

T=x1+x2, where x1<T && x2<T && x1!=x2
sum of reasons why to-? =x1
sum of reasons why not-to? =x2
T could be the net resultant for the entirety of considerations, +&-

asking "why" you know x1 wanting x2=T-x1
asking "why not" you know x1 wanting x1=T-x2


skjalff
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"why" and "why not" are just inverses of the same question
exactly my point good sir, the two sides of existance, cause/effect, yin/yang, good/evil. two sides, making a whole. the in and out breath of 'the entirety'

why (exist), why not = existance. the answer completing the circle.

anyway, whats the point in this pointless debate?

philosophy is for those few discontent people who dream of one day descovering something and either, losing there insignificance or descovering that we actualy are. -(insig)

Peace...xx
 
>>Why do philosophy students rephrase basic philosophy questions as their own?>>

I never said my questions were my own.
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Basically, these questions have not been answered sufficiently and have been asked by too many people to cite.

>>the discrete can exist within the continuous. Another way to look at it is Ideal::Continuous = Real:iscrete... kinda Platoesque - mental constructs and the reality.. or so it seems to me>>

But how does the discrete emerge from the continuous as distinct? How do we bridge the gap between discrete mental constructs and the continuum of experience (if we buy this ontology (also, I'd call it more Jamesian than Platonic))?

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Oh no, but you have to CITE all philosophical references. Because of course, the handful of authors you read in college are the source of all knowledge...>>

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check your god damned PM's, protovack! :)

ebola
 
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