What you are is reachable and understandable only by removing everything that fills you.
A noble man is he who has removed all unnecessary things.
Each one of us is a prism. Light hits us and a ton of colors come out that open and tell the story of what it is that it hits. We are all white inside.
Our names aren't the things that express us, that say what our very essence is. Our names don't express our particular destinies.
In what ways is animal different than man? Is it the banal reason of instincts? Consider, however, that animals follow their instincts incredibly functionally. But in animals there are never irrational breaks with their environment, their past. In man, instead, there are radical breaks because man looks for the understanding of things--for the truth.
No one has ever leapt out over themselves from and at the place where they presently stand. And what happens when we do not learn to understand this, everyone knows.
Will there ever be the perfect form to express what you want to say?
Liberation does not come only from being freed from your chains, but when one authentically takes advantage of such liberty to look at and considers the state of things around him(her) after being liberated of the chains.
Like a change in direction, a step back, a zoom out.
Beauty is turned to a silhouette. If our eyes in darkness perceive a different size, different length of shadow, our world would appear in a different way, but we all search the precision of "what is being-what is it" the essence itself of things around us.
Thinking is Existing. Non-thinking is Non-existence.
The true nature of things loves to hide itself. -Heraclitus
All consciousness is intentional, thus all experience is grounded in care.
Dasein=care, meaning the condition of the possibility for anything like 'philosophical anthropology.'
Philosophy can not be separated from it's language, questions of meaning, questions of its own history.
The majority of people think only of satiating themselves like beats.
Our world that is the same for everyone, was not created by any of the gods or men, but it has always been, is, and will be an eternal burning fire that with regularity ignites and dies. The universe is a unity of alternating phases of destruction and production.
It is impossible for the masses to philosophically reflect. - Plato
Human love sets itself up not as an ambition to the unlimited pleasures of the senses, but involves the totality of ones being.-Plato
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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"It is impossible for the masses to philosophically reflect. - Plato"
ReplyDeletei just wrote a paper on deliberative democracy that argues the opposite of this claim for my plato & government class.
also-- if they are notes for your final-- your class seems like it covers a HUGE topic area. did a little wiki research and found out that philosophy classes are structured differently depending on the country-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_philosophy