Am I the why of is?

I had been wondering if why the is of several tons of steel? Then where of divinity does forego major flatulence of the indigo radiation type? Iridescence of trillions of polygons won't go, but there are still of nothingness to consider for the mean average of splendor. Aspartame? Please help me with this question, my people need me.

The best summary is two books called The Syntopicon. They contain 103 "summaries" about 12 pages long each, containing what the most influential thinkers on that subject had to say about it.

Those 2 books are also called The Great Ideas of the Western World. (Doesn't the title give you a hint?) You can look them up in the library computer either way. They are volumes II and III of 63 volumes called The Great Books of the Western World.

Those two books will give you literally hundreds of more 'must-read' choices. They are arranged by alphabetical subjects (103 of them), not by the philosophers names. The chapters are short--about 12 pages--but you will be fascinated beyond belief by things men said that you never knew.

The best way to learn 'real philosophy' is to step back and take a grand, wide view that quickly outlines a topic. Otherwise you might start with Plato (for an example) but not catch the connection between his "Forms" and Aristotle's "essene" or Kant's Noumena. What about the connections between metaphysics, and the soul; or about soul and matter; or about matter and Being, to name some other examples--like mind, religion, and science. Aristotle invented the sciences of botany, biology, taxonomy, and wrote the first comprehensive treatise on psychology.

So you read the Syntopicon and the connection is made for you. And the world that those two books will open for you is an amazing beginning.

Extension is the physical space a thing occupies. It is a 'primary' quality because it cannot NOT take up space. A secondary quality is 'the color red' because it is not inherently red; it is only red to creatures who see it as red.

Having spatial dimensions; the characteristic attribute of anything that occupies space, has shape, is tangible, moves, and is divisible into physical parts.
http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/e9.htm...

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A 'purpose' is anything which is the effect of a process initiated by a concept of that purpose. 'Purposiveness' is the relation between an intention, i. e. a purposeful concept, and the process that follows, i. e . it abstracts from the actuality of an effected purpose, an abstraction which further qualifies the relation as 'purposeless'. In other words, purposeless purposiveness combines the two Causal types into a intention-effect relation.
http://eesenor.blogspot.com/2010/02/purp...

If you put a seed in the ground and it grows, the effect of its growth is "the effect of a process initiated by a concept of that purpose." You "initiated the concept" of growth by putting the seed in the ground.

Kant creates "an abstraction which further qualifies the relation as 'purposeless'." The relation is the intension of growing the seed, and the actuality of the growth of the seed.

What? Well, many philosophy critics have said Kant is full of BS.

"...The doubts, the uncertainty, the skepticism..., skepticism about man's ability ever to know anything, were not, in fact, applicable to human consciousness, because it was not a human consciousness that Kant's [ideas] represented. But philosophers accepted it as such. And while they cried that reason had been invalidated, they did not notice that reason had been pushed off the philosophical scene altogether and that the faculty they were arguing about was not reason.

"No, Kant did not destroy reason; he merely did as thorough a job of undercutting as anyone could ever do.

"If you trace the roots of all our current philosophies—such as pragmatism, logical positivism, and all the rest of the neo-mystics who announce happily that you cannot prove that you exist—you will find that they all grew out of Kant."
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/kant,_...

Life isn't meant to be easy, its meant to be lived..sometimes happy, other times rough. But with every up and down you learn lessons that make you strong." ~ Unknown.

Life wants you to be happy, life wants you to be at peace with yourself and the world around you and life wants you to know that there is no need for you to struggle, there is no need for you to suffer.

LIFE wants you to know that:

1. HOW PEOPLE TREAT YOU IS THEIR KARMA; HOW YOU REACT IS YOURS – WAYNE DYER- You really can't control how other people behave and you really can't change who they are and what they do but you can always control the way you respond to what they are doing. You can always control your own interpretations, perceptions, attitudes and behaviors and by doing so you will definitely become a happier and less stressed person.

2. YOUR BELIEFS CREATE YOUR REALITY- Question everything. Question your beliefs, question everything you were told by your parents, your teachers, your friends, mass media, etc. and check whether the beliefs you now have are yours or were they passed on to you by others. You lived your life until this day based on your beliefs and you are the person you are today because of your beliefs; you are where you are today because of these beliefs. Heal your limiting beliefs and you will heal and transform your life.Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

3. DON'T STRIVE FOR PERFECTION – PERFECTION LEAVES NO ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT-Don't aim for perfection but rather aim to always give your best in everything you do. Know that the lessons you will learn and master along the way are way more important than the actual things you dreamed of achieving.There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

4. IF YOU DON'T MAKE GOOD USE OF YOUR UNIQUE GIFTS AND TALENTS THEY WILL GO TO WASTE- No matter who you are, where you are and no matter what you do, always remember that there is something you can do better than anyone else. Don't compare yourself to others, don't compete and don't look for approval anywhere else but within yourself. Find what that special something is, work on improving it every single day and promise yourself to always share your awesomeness with the whole world.The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

5. IN LIFE YOU DON'T ATTRACT WHAT YOU WANT YOU ATTRACT WHAT YOU ARE- Change your thinking and you will change your beliefs, change your beliefs and you will change your behavior, change your behavior and you will change your life. You attract in life not the things you want to attract but rather the things that reflect the kind of person you really are underneath it all.