10 Great Questions Of Philosophy

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Pepijn Sweep
 
Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 03:09 am
@Pythagorean,
Pythagorean;4814 wrote:
ONE
What is the nature of the universe? Where does it come from? Of what is it made? How did it come to exist? What is its purpose? By what process does it change? Is it evolving or devolving? Does it function by itself or would it degenerate to chaos without some kind of intelligent control?

TWO
Is there a Supreme Being? If so, what is His nature? Did He create the universe? Does He continue to control it personally and if so, at what level? What is his relationship with man? Does he intervene in the affairs of man? Is this Being good? If this Being is good and all-powerful, how can evil exist?

THREE
What is the place of man in the universe? Is man the highest fruit of the universe or is he just an insignificant speck in infinite space-or something in between? Does the spirit of man descend into matter from higher spiritual realms, or has it evolved from matter? Is the universe conscious or unconscious of man? If it is aware, is it warm and friendly to him, or cold and indifferent, or even hostile?

FOUR
What is reality? What is mind; what is thought? Is thought real? Which is superior: mind or matter? Has mind created matter or has matter evolved mind? Where do ideas come from? Does thought have any importance--does it make any difference in our lives--or is it just fantasy? What is Truth? Is there a universal Truth, true for all men forever, or is Truth relative or individual?

FIVE
What determines the fate of each individual? Is man a creator and mover of his life, or does he live at the effect of forces over which he has little control? Does free will exist or are our lives determined by outside factors-and if so, what are those factors? How does life work: is there a Supreme Force that intervenes in our lives? Or is everything pre-determined from the beginning of time? Or is life just random, full of coincidence and accident? Or is there some other control mechanism we do not perceive?

SIX
What is good and what is bad or evil? What is moral? What is ethical? Who decides good and bad, right and wrong; and by what standard? Is there an absolute standard of good and bad beyond one's the personal opinions? Should good and bad be determined by custom, by rational law, or by the situation? What if the decisions of others (society, authorities, laws, etc) determining good and bad are contrary to one's personal beliefs or freedoms? ?should you obey others or follow your own conscience? Moreover, if as an answer to FIVE, we do not have free will but are ruled by outside factors, what difference does good and bad make? ?we have no choice. If so, we have no responsibility for doing bad.

SEVEN
Why are things the way they are? How should things be ideally? What is the good life -for the individual and for the many (society)? What would a Utopian society, a heaven on earth, be like? Is it even possible to create a Utopia? If so, how? Would not a Utopia assure personal freedom? What, then, should you do with those who don't cooperate and violate the Utopian system? If you control or punish them, is there no longer a Utopia?

EIGHT
What is the ideal relation between the individual and the state? Should the individual serve the state or the state serve the individual? What is the best form of government and what is the worst? When is a man justified in disobeying the dictates of the state? To what extent should the majority rule and thereby act against the freedom of the minorities? When is a man justified in rebelling against the established order and creating a new state? What are the relative merits of the different economic systems (capitalism, communism, etc.).

NINE
He who controls education controls the future. What is education? How should the young be educated-what is important and what not? Who should control education: the parents, the student, the society or the state? Should a student be taught to think for himself or to adopt the beliefs of the society? Should man be educated to be free and live for his own interests; or to subjugate his desires to serve others or the state? ?see Question EIGHT.

TEN
What happens at death? Is death the end of everything or is there a soul in man that continues to exist beyond death? If so, is that soul immortal or does it too eventually cease to exist? If the soul does continue to exist after death, what is the nature of that existence? If there is an existence after death, is "good" rewarded and "bad" punished? If so, how do you reconcile this with the concept of predestination? And if there is a God of INFINITE LOVE and FORGIVENESS, how to you reconcile punishment?


ELEVEN
Eli, Eli, Lama SABACHTHANI!
(Mattheus 27:46 Dutch State Bijbel MDCXVIII):Glasses:
 
smartass
 
Reply Tue 17 Jul, 2012 10:13 am
@Didymos Thomas,
he means for the better >smartass

how can i change the world for the better not worse.
 
Bhanu Padmo
 
Reply Sat 11 Aug, 2012 01:47 am
@PoPpAScience,
POPpaSCIENCE :
@Pythagorean,
Pythagorean, those are the 10 questions I carried in my heart and mind for over 40 years. To answer those questions for myself, I studied every form of knowledge I could get my hands on. I studied this knowledge with a completely open mind.
The only way to have any chance of answering these questions for ones self, is to study all there is to study. It is easy to answer those questions with the dogma of one Idealism or another. But to answer the questions, with a mind filled with the many different forms of knowledge, is the only way to go.
It is such a great gift and feeling, to see reality with a mind filled with a huge multitude of individualized knowledge.

(Bhanu Padmo – PoPpaScience Dialog)

POPpaSCIENCE : What is the nature of the universe?

BHANU PADMO : Assertive self-existence and discretional self-change. Willful and dreamy and intuitive.

POPpaSCIENCE : Where does it come from?

BHANU PADMO : It comes from itself, from its dream (an eternal desire to be and to become).

POPpaSCIENCE : Of what is it made?

BHANU PADMO : It is made of existent dream. The most fundamental particle of universe may be called *dreamon* which is the god-particle, very close to Higgs Boson.

POPpaSCIENCE : How did it come to exist?

BHANU PADMO : This is the most important concern. Universe doesn*t exist by matter. It exists and enhances by configuration. Matter is sensation of relative configuration. Properties are begotten of configuration. Just imagine how salt varies from sugar, how diamond varies from coal.

POPpaSCIENCE : What is its purpose?

BHANU PADMO : Consummation of dream is the purpose. Dream is the eternal and universal desire to be and to be associated and to enhance collectively.

POPpaSCIENCE : By what process does it change?

BHANU PADMO : Configuration is *the existence* and re-configuration is *the change*. The concomitant psychological process is exercise of dream and intuition and discretion.

POPpaSCIENCE : Is it evolving or devolving?

BHANU PADMO : Since the first cause (the ultimate cause) is dream and discretion, the latter*s expansion brings evolution and its shrinkage brings devolution. This process is location specific. Psychologically and intellectually, the universe is heterogeneous. Its current status is the product of net dream-and-discretion.

POPpaSCIENCE : Does it function by itself or would it degenerate to chaos without some kind of intelligent control?

BHANU PADMO : Existence is manifestation of intelligence itself. Dream and intuition and discretion is the highest intelligence that has been packed into every part of the universe including even the most fundamental particle. Universe is self-existent and self-controlled. It is teeming with intelligence.

POPpaSCIENCE : Is there a Supreme Being?

BHANU PADMO : The supreme portion of universe is the source of entire supremacy. To locate and identify the supreme being, we have to visualize actual *configuration of universe* keeping in view the impact of the doctrine of hierarchy upon the quality of configuration. Hierarchy enhances configuration and its physical property exponentially.

If we see the universe as a tall pyramid, the tip of this pyramid is the supreme being that possesses the universal control and universal initiative. But it ought to be an integral part of universe itself. Call it ultimate polarity or the center or the apex or the vortex of universe.

As we climb the universal pyramid, we gradually meet near its top the primatekind, the mankind, the leader-cluster, prophetic genes etc. The traditional mindset needs to mutate to acclimatize such prospects.
 
Chino
 
Reply Sat 18 Aug, 2012 10:39 pm
@PoPpAScience,
PoPpAScience wrote:

Pythagorean, those are the 10 questions I carried in my heart and mind for over 40 years. To answer those questions for myself, I studied every form of knowledge I could get my hands on. I studied this knowledge with a completely open mind.
The only way to have any chance of answering these questions for ones self, is to study all there is to study. It is easy to answer those questions with the dogma of one Idealism or another. But to answer the questions, with a mind filled with the many different forms of knowledge, is the only way to go.
It is such a great gift and feeling, to see reality with a mind filled with a huge multitude of individualized knowledge.
 
 

 
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