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philosophy
"We all have the means at hand to see, directly,
the basis upon which philosophical claims are made: this basis is simply the
immanent living operations within conscious
experience itself. We all have first-hand
experience of conscious life, and
that's where the evidence is." - Marianne Sawicki*
"Observations from the study of holotropic states
confirm the basic tenet of perennial philosophy that the quality of our life
ultimately depends on what can be called "spiritual intelligence." Spiritual
intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects
deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves.
Buddhist scriptures refer to this kind of spiritual wisdom as "prajñ
para mit."" - Stanislav Grof
Philosophy, "lover of
Sophia (Wisdom)" first used by
Pythagoras.
A system of
values by which one lives.
A system of
thought based on or involving such
inquiry.
The critical analysis of
fundamental assumptions of
beliefs.
Any personal belief about how to
live or how to deal with a
situation.
Love
and pursuit of wisdom by
intellectual means and
moral self-discipline.
The
rational investigation of
questions about existence and knowledge
and ethics.
The
discipline comprising
logic, ethics,
aesthetics, metaphysics, and
epistemology.
Practical
wisdom; calmness of
temper and judgment;
equanimity; fortitude;
stoicism.
A set of ideas or
beliefs relating to a particular field or activity;
an underlying theory.
A particular
philosophical system or
theory; the
hypothesis by which
particular phenomena are
explained.
The disciplines
presented in university curriculums of science and the
liberal arts, except medicine, law, and
theology.
Investigation of the
nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or
values, based on logical
reasoning rather than empirical methods.
When
applied to any particular department of knowledge,
philosophy denotes the general laws or
principles under which all the
subordinate phenomena or
facts relating to that subject are
comprehended.
Thus philosophy,
when applied to God and the divine
government, is called
theology; when applied to
material objects, it is called
physics; when it treats of
man, it is called anthropology and
psychology, with which are
connected logic and
ethics; when it treats of the necessary
conceptions and relations
by which philosophy is possible, it is called metaphysics.
"The intensity of the great
ideas of philosophy remains viable because they
reveal reality and mystery to be essentially synonymous. Reality is palpable mystery. Because we have named and labeled
everything our perception
encompasses does not make reality less
mysterious. It is getting at this
essential nature of
things beyond names and labels, as close as
humanly possible, that is the activity of philosophy." -
Lew Paz
There is an unfortunate reality that we all must deal with. Scholars tend to
pick apart, over analyze and over
simplify the philosophy of an individual. Most philosophers are attempting to
make certain points. All language of philosophy must use
metaphor and analogy. Just because twenty,
thirty or nearly every scholar chooses to
interpret the
writings of the individual philosopher in a certain way does not mean that the
interpretation is
precisely as the author intended. As a matter of fact it can not be as the
interpreters do not have the same experiences as
the individual penning the philosophical statements.
philosopher
A
student of, or
specialist in, philosophy.
A
wise individual who is calm and
rational.
Someone who lives a life of
reason with equanimity .
An
individual who is calm and
rational under any circumstances.
An
individual who
lives and thinks according
to a particular philosophy.
One who reduces the
principles of philosophy to practice in
the conduct of life;
one who lives according to the rules of
practical wisdom;
one who meets or regards all
vicissitudes with calmness.
See
reality
See reason
See rational
See Socrates
See
Marcus Aurelius V
See
Rene Descartes
See
Franz Capra
See
Carl Jung
Chief Seattle,
George Eliot ,
Saint Teresa of Avila,
Joseph Campbell,
Edward Abbey,
Thomas Aquinas,
Marcus Aurelius V,
Rachel Carson,
Charles Darwin,
Rene Descartes,
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
David Hume, John Stuart Mills,
Ian Player,
Henry David Thoreau,
Aristotle, Frances Bacon, Erma Louise Bombeck,
Ray Bradbury,
Edmund Burke, Orson Scott Card,
Demosthenes,
Epictetus,
William Faulkner,
Sigmund Freud, Robert Lee Frost,
Ernest Hemingway,
Aldous Leonard Huxley,
Carl Gustav Jung, Immanuel Kant, Rudyard Kipling,
Ann Landers, John Locke, Martin Luther,
Niccolo Machiavelli,
John Milton,
Friedrich Nietzsche,
William of Ockham,
George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Lucius Annaeus Seneca,
George Bernard Shaw,
Chief William Shelton,
Socrates,
Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza,
John Steinbeck,
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Leo Tolstoy, William Kenneth Turner,
Mark Twain, Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire,
Oscar Wilde Auguste Comte |
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