Philosophy "Under the Sun"

[brownprose]

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Note: First and foremost, THIS IS NOT "your faith vs. my faith" THREAD nor this thread is meant to show-off one's debating skills. So, if you can live with that, ride on. No need to be daunted by the terms/vocabulary used here...just Google them and you'll be fine...after all, Philosophy is for everyone.

This thread covers all aspects of Philosophy from Philo 101 to its definitive branches. Quotes from your favorite Philosophers would be nice and dandy...or you may want to offer a critical discussion about their work or throw questions or clarifications perhaps. I know there are dozens of amateur and expert Philosophy enthusiasts here in istorya.

Let me start...

I have always been fascinated by Søren Kierkegaard a Danish Philosopher sometime in the mid-1800s. Apart from his work that reinforced or redefined existentialism, Kierkegaard paved the way for "new thinking" in Christianity. For Kierkegaard, a person's faith is defined not by the amount of church dogma one has since dogmas are said to embody paradoxes which are offensive to reason.

Faith thus is left as a matter of individual responsibility, which cannot be mediated by dogma, the clergy or by any human artifacts.

IMO Kierkegaard, also believes in what I call a "moral compass." This moral compass defines the ethical predisposition of humans based on observation and involvement in a "chaotic society." Humans therefore derive judgment and wisdom as to the "ethicity" of an act/deed based on the amount of participation and observation in human affairs. In essence, man must not remain a stranger to the on-goings of the world to further refine/polish his moral compass.

[brownprose]

Welcome theosophists...drop a line or two about your favorite philosophy or fave philosopher would be appreciated

[Alel]

I'm not sure if this counts, but I'll post it:

"I know I am God because when I pray to him I find I'm talking to myself." - Peter Barnes.

Peter Barnes was more like a playwright, as far as I know.

I simply find sense from this line of his. :0

[brownprose]

I'm not sure if this counts, but I'll post it:

"I know I am God because when I pray to him I find I'm talking to myself." - Peter Barnes.

Peter Barnes was more like a playwright, as far as I know.

I simply find sense from this line of his. :0

hehehe...reminds me of a similar quote by Thomas Szasz (a psychologist and academician): If you talk to God that's called prayer. If God talks to you that's called schizophrenia.

[regnauld]

hehehe...reminds me of a similar quote by Thomas Szasz (a psychologist and academician): If you talk to God that's called prayer. If God talks to you that's called schizophrenia.

I love Thomas Szaz he wrote a great book "The Myth of Mental Illness."

[Alel]

@Brownprose: Nice lage Bro...Hehe

Another favorite of mine:

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." - Henry Ford.

[brownprose]

@Brownprose: Nice lage Bro...Hehe

Another favorite of mine:

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." - Henry Ford.

That's very profound...If I understand Mr. Ford correctly, man's imperfection constitutes the very perfection of his being or his definitive nature as a person thus if man was absolutely perfect, he wouldn't have been called a man but god.

[Hellblazer 2.1]

"Pity for the guilty, is treason to the innocent." - Lord Rahl

[flying fish]

"Pity for the guilty, is treason to the innocent." - Lord Rahl

pwede ra na philosopphy that im the god that im searching?
kay murag naa man sa bible nila pien "ye are gods in the becoming" mangusulta nya ni pien dili nimo mr. hell

[forester]

Do we think because our mind can understand? or we understand because our mind can think?

[My Dissertation, pg.96]