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Philosophy and Society

 
 
RexRed
 
Reply Fri 7 Feb, 2014 12:21 am
What is philosophy and how does it affect society? My thoughts are that 'philosophy' is society from a human perspective.

What would philosophy be like from any other perspective but something else? Philosophy from any other perspective would become religion and slavery.

Philosophy must come from a human perspective.

There are philosophies within philosophy just as there are religions within religion.

Philosophy uses reason as religion uses faith and the two are often incompatible.

So how does a philosopher view society and the world? From a human perspective they use their senses to evaluate the world around them. They meet others who do the same in the same way. Then there are those who congregate in circles based upon faith.

So where does philosophy contradict faith? When faith contradicts the general perspective of the senses reason.

Well both philosophy and faith encounter 'circumstancialism'. Philosophy approaches this with senses reason and religion approaches this with faith.

So the end results are different.

One develops a philosophy and the other a religion.

One sees conflict and the other sees evil.
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Reply Fri 7 Feb, 2014 01:19 am
@RexRed,
Can you describe the way you see life in a few sentences?

Are we divided? Are we separated by ideology? Is there a line in the sand?

Are we on different planes? Levels? Continents? Planets? Worlds? etc...

Is life a tangle of threads that pull and tug in every which way?

Are we living in cubicles, identical replicas of one another? A house of mirrors?

Islands?

Is there any ideal model of form and shape that we can compare our life's true architecture to?

The answer is yes there is a form. It is reality. We compare the inner world with the outer world.

We mirror the outer world inversely.

This is how we understand by using the symbols of life in a philosophical way rather than a religious way.

Philosophy is more kind to education and intuition and invention where religion requires obedience often to a dogma that more often impedes progress.

Once we were merely plants and all we needed to do every day was drink water and reach our outstretched arms to the sun.

So is that the image? Is that the form, is this the philosophy of those who observe with their senses? Is that all there is to life?

A spinning orb in space? Timeless infinity?

What it the matrix, the key, the cipher, the word of creation?

We seek to look inside a box and find knowledge but it seems the knowledge is outside the box.

It is not inside a book but it is derived by studying the world around us.

By understanding the human side.

By the knowledge of the world around us we understand the world within the box.
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Reply Sat 8 Feb, 2014 06:13 pm
2 Corinthians 4:18 (KJV) While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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Is matter ever created or destroyed?
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