Philosophy Now Forum

Socrates hears a story i that Leontius, the son of Aglaion, coming up one day from the Piraeus, under the north wall on the outside, observed some dead bodies lying on the ground at the place of execution. He felt a desire to see them, and also a dread and abhorrence of them; for a time he struggled...

Being hostile is precisely the mediation of self with outside world and return to self. This is a double determination: first, self-denial hostility towards the outer world and second, self-preservation. The one with which a person reasons may be called the rational principle of the mind; the other,...

The ego acquires only self-certainty, whereas reason is deeper ; it probes and opens, rushes out of self-certainty finds expression in other. The ego maintains itself in pure reflection passes into transparent light. But the ego exist as a empty self certainty, only a manner of light, but the ego th...

If the nature of justice and injustice were known, then the meaning of acting unjustly and being unjust, or, acting justly, will be perfectly clear? In reality, justice is being concerned, however, with not the outward person, but with the inward, which is the true self and concernment of the person...

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"He smote his breast, and thus rebuked his soul;" for in this verse Homer has clearly supposed the power which reasons about the better and worse to be different from anger which is rebuked by it. The rational principle, which is wise, ought have the care of the whole mind, to rule, and th...

Bullying is the extreme opposite of philosophy, one is best and the other worst. Bullies are the most miserable persons, I looked into them penetrated their inner self, and did not panic or get struck by their ineffective oppressive showiness . Bullies are masters of others when they cannot master t...

You figure it out.

The object of philosophy is knowledge, but the object of a particular science is a particular kind of knowledge, for example, that the science of house building is termed architecture. Reason we call the rational principle of the mind; the other, with which loves, desires, hungers, thirsts, and feel...

Don't read it, your eyes belong to you, your mind belongs to you, don't read my writing if you are bothered by it you have every right use your own discretion and not read it, it's as simple as that.

What do you do who are you?

Listen I was asked why I do what I do, like it or not that is what I do.

Then you are no philosopher. You have no understanding nor do you seem to want to . I live as a humble person I do not participate in the societies hoopla, I live a humble life, work for myself for over thirty years and its enough for me to live off, I work as a laborer and I ask nothing from anyone...

Lance4, To follow any conviction is certainly more than to hand over to a jury of opinions. I stick to a system that rest upon knowledge, has no opinion or prejudice. To follow my conviction is certainly more than to hand over to a jury of skeptics who sometimes rest upon bulling me trying me into s...

Stroke yourself.