Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Reflections [1]

There are two kinds of essence; a natural essence and a learned essence. What we have learned would become our learned essence , and therefore can be called the posterior essence. The natural essence is not the learned essence, but is the one without choices; natural essence is the original essence, the one that we are born with, and therefore should be called the a priori essence.

Unrealistic seekers in a realistic world are the intellects.

There are 2 kinds of action: actions that follow an accommodation of a true personality and actions that dissimulate.

Subjectivity is a direct expression and diversity is an indirect expression. Through individual expressions, diversity springs out because systematic thinking is not encouraged.

The soul has its own laws, the laws that a body can't never comprehend.

If it is true that a working group will bring better results then there would be no geniuses.

What is called freedom is freedom to act, not freedom to get expected results, and this freedom is a dead-end road because there is an entering door but there is no exit.

Language is the sign of a living world, and it expresses the development of life.

Every ethical doctrine provides some main principles on which one can utilize as a guide to base his or her judgments on.

We can't take away the freedom of each individual because although there is a universal guide and general principles, when they comes to apply to each individual, they lose their power.

Problem solvers don't just seek to solve problems according to an ontological viewpoint because problem solving is more than just about existence; it is the relationship between cause and effect.

It seems that for each effect, there may have 2 opposite ways to explain for its cause, and for each cause, there are more than 1 way to explain its effects.

The will acts in the absence of the intellect means that physical pleasure will take the control of the will because there are only 2 kinds of pleasure: spiritual pleasure and physical pleasure, and the absence of the first kind means the presence of the latter.

When reading Dostoevsky novels, we see that there are real lives presented in novels, and when reading the bible, we see that there are fictional stories presented in real lives.

Life and thoughts are undeniably intertwined. That means we find real life's situations presented in thoughts and eminent, intellectual thoughts invented through life.

There are different truths, assumptuous truths, and true assumptions. True assumptions are assumptions that are based on reasoning, or facts such as a scientific theory that are being proved by experiments and reasoning while the asssumptuous truths are truths that are based on concepts or relations of ideas which sometimes are just intellectual guesses or suggestions.