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What Philosophical Questions Stump You Most
- Thread starter The Sum of Awe
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It's better to never love at all.
lol
I have fallen in love before, and it always hurts when it ends, so I somewhat agree with you. But, to feel love, is to feel alive. Have you ever been in love?
That's a tough one. At the end of the day, it is better to have loved and lost. Sometimes the heart needs to break in order to heal in a new way. If we can bear witness to the pain, our capacity for love may expand.
I can't define it for you, but you would know it if you felt it for another person.
You don't define love. Love defines you.
I prefer to describe my flavor of ignorance as detached inquisitiveness.Your awesomeness grows day by day, you know that right?
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Yes, that's a good one! It makes me smile when people start talking about "Ultimate Reality", which is presumably more "real" than plain old "Reality", which in turn I assume is a bit more real than "reality" with a small r.
Purpose, meaning and what is reality. Why.
What's the point?
How are we conscious?
Harvey Meale
New Member
How should we live our lives?
raw_thought
Well-Known Member
I agree with Wittgenstein that how words attach to reality is the most fundamental mystery . Words do not resemble concepts and concepts do not resemble reality. For example, the concept "book" lacks a specifixc, size, weight, shape, title, language... Nothing resembles that!
Skwim
Veteran Member
Why should they? What's the imperative?
In my experience, both, but perhaps in different ways. I've never held great power, but I was a boss for most of my business career with responsibilities for up to 85 employees. And I found that having even that relatively modest degree of power over people tends to be a remarkably efficient and effective way of discovering who you really are. At the same time, it can tempt you to express who you really are in ways that are simply not ethical. It can also lead you to expressing very decent sides of yourself, so power doesn't always lead to corruption, pure and simple.
raw_thought
Well-Known Member
Since comcepts do not resemble reality, how can they reveal anything about reality? For example, if I say," the sky is blue" that tells me something about reality. But how is that possible, when theee is no correspondence between the conxcept blue and the color blue.
I think Wittgenstein's point was that, because concepts need not replicate reality, it is possible and even fairly easy to make a whole slew of mistakes when dealing with them, or attempting to apply them to reality. Just a fact of life.