Philosophy "Under the Sun"

[brownprose]

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ~ Albert Camus (Existentialist, Novelist, Nobel Prize Awardee for Literature)

Incidentally, I never knew Camus that well 'til forester tossed the idea to our Istorya Reading Club to read The Myth of Sisyphus. If you want to get this ebook subaya lang ang thread sa book club (https://www.istorya.net/forums/arts-a...ding-club.html) sometime February 2008 there should be a link there somewhere.

Anyway, about Camus' works...one of my personal faves of his is The Stranger...a novel that brings the thought that it isn't not enough be just honest to yourself or to others nor it is enough to merely just mind your own business or being compliant to laws etc -- if there's far more despicable crime a person can commit, it is the crime of apathy.

Thus our existence can only be meaningful if we begin to take responsibilities.

[Alel]

^ Ouch!!

I must read that book, The Stranger. ( Na-igo ko da! (well, in a certain degree...) )

[regnauld]

"Nothing is new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes

[forester]

Brown, my undying gratitude I render to you for opening a wonderful thread such as this one; you are giving back the spirit of this poor sisyphus which was incarcerated in the darkness of dying interest....


CHANGE is the essence of things. No object can be created without change; a movement is not change per se but an evident reality that change governs everything.

-HERACLITUS.


CHANGE is just a perception that is merely a report of our senses to our mind which created the interpretation, hence, there is no such thing as change should the mind provide none.

-PARMENIDES.

[brownprose]

Brown, my undying gratitude I render to you for opening a wonderful thread such as this one; you are giving back the spirit of this poor sisyphus which was incarcerated in the darkness of dying interest....


CHANGE is the essence of things. No object can be created without change; a movement is not change per se but an evident reality that change governs everything.

-HERACLITUS.


CHANGE is just a perception that is merely a report of our senses to our mind which created the interpretation, hence, there is no such thing as change should the mind provide none.

-PARMENIDES.

hehehe...since I could not return that Herculean gratitude to forester for sparking back my long-abandoned passion in this part and field of Humanities, may this thread represent that Sisyphian task of mine and to those like-minded people like you that, in spite of how inconsequential this burden of seeking the limits of human thought is to civilization which Ambrose Bierce wised: " Philosophy is a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing." there still exists such great pleasure to man amid its perfunctoriness, triviality and persistent iteration.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. ~ Martin Heidegger (Existentialist, Time and Being author)

[Alel]

"In the realm of the mind, what you believe is true is either true or will become true." - (I really dont know who wrote this. It became popular among the illusionists in the country.)

[forester]

He who knows what he knew and knew what does not know is a characteristic of a man who truly knows.

[josephdc]

"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are." -- Anthony Robbins

He is not a philosopher but sort of a success guru or something.

[The_Child]

"At the beginning there was Logos." - John, "Gospel according to St. John"

"At the beginning there was the deed " - Goethe, "Faust"

"At the beginning there was the relationship" - Buber "I-Thou"

So:

"Why is there Something rather than Nothing? " -Martin Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word ‘no.’ To ‘no’ there is only one answer and that is ‘yes.’ Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread. Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862, pt. 2, bk. 7, ch. 6

Thus:

"the joy of the yes! (le joie de l'oui)" -Paul Ricoeur

Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else -- that is the Infinite. - Upanishad (Chandogya? , i forgot)

But then again, at the end:

"Why is there Nothing rather than Something?" -Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime.

[regnauld]

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? I would like to have a word with him." - Chuang Tzu