Arts & Humanities: Philosophy: “Question: Do the "ends" justify the "means" if it is all for the "greater good"?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Do the "ends" justify the "means" if it is all for the "greater good"?
- Question: What type of girl do you picture when you hear this name?
- Question: CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME WITH PHILOSOPHY?
- Question: Can you survive a tsunami if you are in the water and have a lifebuoy?
- Question: Within philosophy search, (discovery + Teaching most particularly....) .....Do we "dumb down" what we intend-to-show ?
- Question: If you were in the army on a mission in a war and one your team was a traitor he shot you what are your final words before death?
| Question: Do the "ends" justify the "means" if it is all for the "greater good"? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 09:55 AM PST I think if my husband is at stake, yes, ends justify the means... I will sacrifice anyone and myself to safe him. I'm not sorry and I won't apologize for that... I don't care if that makes me a bad person, but I think it doesn't, my husband is a good person he well being does not require me to do bad things... But I'm like Neo if one door will lead to salvation of the world, and the other to saving my husband, I will go through 'saving my husband door', every time.  |
| Question: What type of girl do you picture when you hear this name? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 08:52 AM PST "Fiona Violet Grym" (first middle and surname. Surname is pronounced "grim") We don't have much control over the surname, but we DO have say in the first and middle name. How's the flow? What kind of girl do you envision? We were also thinking of "Eleanor Violet". You think that would be better? |
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| Question: Can you survive a tsunami if you are in the water and have a lifebuoy? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 01:56 AM PST You might, depending on how far into the clear waters of the sea you are. You might have noticed the normal sea waves hardly beak any surf, but soon as the same calm and placid waves reach close to a shoreline of a coast of an island where the land beneath is rising the waves start to roll – the water at the top moving faster than the water at the bottom. The process is called wave breaking and the result is spectacular wave surfs, depending on the degree of acclivity of the land below. If you are far out into the deeper waters of a see or ocean you will hardly feel sense the tsunami wave passing underneath you, as even if it is huge, it will gently lift you up and bring you down. Those waves traverse thousands of miles of open seas and ocean, often travelling from continent to continent, they pass under ships and boats without causing any tumultuous upset, often only detectable with the aid of some kind of instruments. But if you happen to be in the shallows, or on the short close enough, then you are in a region where tsunamis wreak havoc. This is the collision point between the juggernaut of a freak wave, usually caused by tectonic movements in earth's crust, and the land mass of a shoreline. The wave takes form of a giant carpet rolling upwards destroying everything in its wave, while transporting billions of cubic meters of sea water inland. The tsunami that swept North Pacific Coast, Japan on 11 March 2011 killing more than 18,000 people was travelling at the speed of 800 km per hour with 10 m high waves. The tsunami was spawned by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that reached inland depths of 24.4 km- making it the fourth-largest earthquake ever recorded. |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2016 10:12 AM PST Your quest is within philosophy. Therefore, what is philosophy? There are several definitions: love of wisdom (question: what is wisdom? (wise dominion)); use of reason towards obtaining truth (question: what is truth?); a belief system or opinion/set of opinions; opinions taken as axioms or as guides. In terms of reasoning towards truth, this is Wittgenstein's preference (reason > science/empiricism, able to build upon science). In this sub-definition, there are several major overlapping emphases (taken, not simplistically, as the academic fashion/preference of "mere decades"): logic; metaphysics; aesthetics; ethics; epistemology; ontology. Therefore, "the" aim of "philosophy" is not necessarily singular, but perhaps manifold. Which emphases one elects (typically by personal preference, "social psychology") tend to guide, in-form, and develop one's goals/aims. "Methodology" tends towards internal self-consistency, self-awareness, and positing of "self-evident" axioms, upon which a particular perspective is developed and set forth. For example, Heraclitus' perspective on "flux" or "process" was that energy and its formations were centripetal, i.e., a fire enfolding itself, the "coinciding of opposites" or antinomies. Some of his fragments hint at a Permanence beyond the "enfolding," which is similar to e.g. Christian doctrine of "fiery trial." Kant does arrive at this "enfolding" of antinomies by terming it "ether" (in modern parlance, "quantum flux"); both philosophers are thus similar to the notion of Tao as process enfolding opposites in the One. Plotinus develops this "Oneness" as "One Mind Soul," the Realization of Heraclitus' and especially Parmenides' and Plato's Ideas, Good. So, to answer your question, charity, clarity, and self-awareness are helpful guides in philosophy, as they are in many aspects of living. Related: "Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization;" "A Philosophy of Universality;" "The Slightest Philosophy;" "The Path of the Higher Self." |
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