Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Sunday, October 21, 2012

Introduction To Philosophy Online

By Thomas Swanson


You're A Philosopher!

The first point for you to note in case you are interested in an introduction to philosophy is that all people, especially you, is a philosopher! You may not always be mindful of this, but you are currently some sort of philosopher. The exact issue to question isn't if you should learn philosophy or whether or not to become philosophical, but exactly how what philosophy you have already learned and how effective in philosophical pondering you wish to become.

A philosopher isn't a person with a absolutely unique ability in comparison to the remainder of us, similar to a juggler, but instead a person that has taken a standard proficiency yet has developed it in an exceptional degree. Just what is the ?talent? the a philosopher has developed? Keep reading to discover!

Aristotle, the single most famous and important philosophers on the planet gave a surprising answer to this inquiry. Aristotle stated that philosophy gets started in wonder.? Never within a book or simply a school or even just having a teacher. Philosophy begins with wonder. But is wonder a legitimate ability? We don't generally consider it a skill, but something closely related to wonder we can easily more readily see as being a ability: questioning. You probably know a number of people (or possibly folks say this about you) that are great at suggesting questions. They've grown the ability of suggesting the ideal questions to help get to the foundation of something. Or they're good at inquiring thoughts that will open up useful discussions.

Philosophers Are Excellent Wonderers and Questioners

Your second thing to note if you are enthusiastic about being introduced to the subject of philosophy is the skill of wondering, as well as of asking beneficial questions may be the proficiency philosophers concentrate on and build. All of us wonder, and we all ask questions, so we are practically all philosophers in a very primary meaning. However people who focus on acquiring these types of skills towards greater degree tend to be what we generally think about as being philosophers.

Philosophers throughout history tend to be famous never mainly due to the fact for the answers these people happened to give to their queries, but for the particular questions themselves, mainly because a useful or even essential idea is always the effect of a excellent question.

That doesn't sound very strange does it? Anyone can possibly find out how mastering the proficiency of asking great questions can help you throughout whatsoever routines you're involved in, what ever your occupation, hobbies, or interests are.

The Most Beneficial Learning About Philosophy Happens Through Conversations

The third point to notice for a great introduction to philosophy would it be is extremely challenging to understand the proficiency of wondering and asking good questions alone. Questions normally happen within interactions, in discourse. Plato, one more of the globe's most popular and important philosophers, didn't write books. He wrote dialogues, typically known as Platonic dialogues. He wrote discussions happening between numerous people, and generally lead by means of one of the planet's finest questioners, and Plato's own educator: Socrates. Also they are referred to as Socratic dialogues since Socrates is one of the main personas in every of the dialogues.

Plato offers all of us the opportunity to look in upon great discussions involving great wonderers and questioners. Here is the very best method to be introduced to philosophy and learn these core philosophical capabilities by yourself.




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