Arts & Humanities: Philosophy: “Question: If you are drunk as an Animorph does the alcohol remain in your blood after you morph?” plus 5 more |
- Question: If you are drunk as an Animorph does the alcohol remain in your blood after you morph?
- Question: What is the best analogy for the concept of 'ideas'? And perhaps also how they work?
- Question: How could my boyfriend bear to see so much gore and disgusting stuff without it bothering him?
- Question: Could the observer be one or many?
- Question: What is humanities endgame?
- Question: What do philosophers agree upon?
| Question: If you are drunk as an Animorph does the alcohol remain in your blood after you morph? Posted: 16 Aug 2015 09:33 AM PDT Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel  |
| Question: What is the best analogy for the concept of 'ideas'? And perhaps also how they work? Posted: 16 Aug 2015 09:12 AM PDT There have been several models produced through history, all of the major one's having been made up by relatively independent thinkers. There's Plato's Theory of Forms, which says that ideas are, or at least relate with, the highest aspect of truth, in essence, that ideas are real. Then there's the subjective model introduced around the time of Immanuel Kant, that ideas are kinds of opinions of the person who has them. There is also the Romantic view raised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the transcendentalist Thoreau (of 'Walden' fame), that ideas are a byproduct of the deeper aspects of nature, chemistry, the sublime, etc. There's also a psychological model. |
| Posted: 16 Aug 2015 09:08 AM PDT Me and my boyfriend were hanging out on his back porch when his cat came up. But something was horribly wrong. The cat had been hit by a car and his guts, yes his stomach, was literally ripped OPEN and dragon outside of his body. The cat was so torn to shreds and covered in blood (plus the smell) that it made me vomit on the spot. I literally had nightmares and COULD NOT sleep. My boyfriend though didn't even react. He grabbed the cat, with his bare hands, got some water and started doctoring the cat up... He sewed up the hole in it's stomach (which admittedly wasn't as large as it first seemed) and wrapped the cat in duct tape to keep him from ripping it back open. The cat is... alive. and actually right here with me now. The thing is that was so horrific that it was like a person's worse night mare. The way the cat was so covered in blood and so weak and the screaming, oh God, the screaming as my boyfriend doctored him. But it didn't even seem to phase him :/ is this normal or is he like a psycho or something? |
| Question: Could the observer be one or many? Posted: 16 Aug 2015 07:41 AM PDT |
| Question: What is humanities endgame? Posted: 16 Aug 2015 05:04 AM PDT Sorry to be the pragmatist, but unless humanity is guided by a God, there will be no ultimate plan, but only petty interests which occasionally add up to common goals. There is, however, a trend to move from survival into evolution, from evolution into economics, and from economics into significance. Prepare for a bumpy ride... According to science and mythology, each person lives for up to perhaps a maximum of 120 - 400 years. That's not enough time to really 'control' history. People contribute values is my theory. Some people are grandmothers, other people contribute generously to charity, some people contribute intellectually, and some people were 'just there' when something happened. Governing bodies do exercise some control over history, perhaps more than you would expect. But it's not just the elites, its everybody influencing this person or that person, or if not that person, this person. What's tragic is when entire meaningful influences disappear, because they were so isolated, and met with disaster. You could say they were unwise, or not psychic. But the same applies to everyone, if everyone is mortal the human project is doomed to fail. But the longer we live, the more failure might not imply the end of the human race. Values improve, but the status quo seems to sink lower and lower. It's all the violence, and the disappointments. People remember being tricked by a god, and then losing a business deal, and then being a failure in love, and then not getting just what they wanted when they were an intellectual, or something like that. We can afford to be demanding people, but life isn't made without compromise. Old people ARE wiser, even when their lifestyle is out-moded. It's the problem of history. The problem of time. The problem of sacrifice. Educated people will probably find a better life eventually. There's nothing to do but improve, unless there' s a big distraction. That's the good news. The least thing we can do is aspire to a higher dimension. At least there, we can undo mistakes and live for the moment. Clearly, whatever is going wrong is some kind of temporary failure of standards. Of course, life could be different. There's nothing 100% against life changing for the better. Maybe its just an individual karma thing. It's always possible to improve a little, or improve a lot. We get the life that matters to us, and what matters to us is our own fault. Exceptional people always thrive in the midst of absurdity. That's the answer I was reaching for. By the context of future generations, we haven't even reached civilization yet. There's a lot of room for improvement, and unless something terrible happens, improvements will continue to be made, for those that are most concerned for their own reality. Blame apathy for the temporary hitch in human progress. |
| Question: What do philosophers agree upon? Posted: 16 Aug 2015 12:53 AM PDT Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Arts & Humanities: Philosophy To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment