I realise that there are a lot of 'crackpot' theories about truth and reality
on the internet, but it is easy to show that the Wave Structure of Matter
is the correct solution as it deduces the laws
of Nature (the fundamentals of Physics
& Philosophy)
perfectly (there are no opinions). While the Wave Structure of Matter is
obvious
once known, to begin it will seem strange simply because it takes time
for our minds to adjust to new knowledge.
For those who are religious
/ spiritual, I think Albert
Einstein expresses the enlightened view of God. He writes 'I believe
in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists,
not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.'
This harmony arises from a Wave Structure of Matter in Space (we are all
interconnected in this space that we all commonly experience). This unity
of reality (God, Brahman, Tao, Spirit, Energy, Light, Vibration) is central
to all major world religions, thus their common moral
foundation of 'Do unto others as to thyself' as the other is part of
the self.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a
revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mohandas Gandhi)
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
(Edmund Burke)
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. (Thomas Hobbes)
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Chapter Twenty Four: Arthur Schopenhauer Brief Biography of Arthur Schopenhauer: Summary of Ideas, Portrait & Quotes
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Chapter
Twenty Four: Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is most famous
for his work The World as Will and Representation. He is
commonly known for having espoused a sort of philosophical pessimism that
saw life as being essentially evil and futile, but rather, upon closer inspection,
influenced by Eastern thought, he saw hope in aesthetics, sympathy for others
and ascetic living. His ideas profoundly influenced the fields of philosophy,
psychology, and literature.
Schopenhauer's starting point was Kant's division of the universe into phenomenon
and noumenon, claiming that the noumenon was Will and the most important since
it is the inner content and the driving force of the world. (The noumenon was
what Kant called the Ding an Sich, the "Thing in Itself", the reality
that exists outside of, and the foundation of, our sensory and mental representations
of an external world.) For Schopenhauer, human will had ontological primacy
over the intellect; in other words, desire is understood to be prior to thought,
and, in a parallel sense, "will" is said to be prior to "being".
... In The World as Will and Idea, Schopenhauer posited that humans living
in the realm of objects
are living in the realm of desire, and thus are eternally tormented by that
desire (his idea of the role of desire in life is similar to that of Vedanta-Hinduism
and Buddhism, Schopenhauer draws attention to these similarities himself).
... (see book for more)
The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but
to think what no body yet has thought about that which everyone sees. … But
life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
For the incredibly great majority of men are by their nature
absolutely incapable of any but material aims; they cannot even comprehend
any others. Accordingly,
the pursuit of truth alone is a pursuit far too lofty and eccentric for us
to expect that all or many, or indeed even a mere few, will sincerely take
part in it.
My guiding star in all seriousness has been truth. Following
it, I could first aspire only to my own approval, entirely averted from an
age
that has sunk
low as regards all higher intellectual efforts, and from a national literature
demoralised but for the exceptions, a literature in which the art of combining
lofty words with low sentiments has reached its zenith.
All truth passes through
three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third,
it is accepted as being self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
A lively and concise journey through the central
ideas of thirty famous philosophers. From ancient Indian, Greek and Chinese
Philosophy to modern Western Philosophy, this book explores the changing
foundations of human knowledge and their effect on how we think and live.
Includes full page portraits, brief biographies and selected quotes from
some of the greatest minds of human history on the universal subjects of
Truth, Reality, Nature, Cosmos, Wisdom, Morality, Mind, Education, Politics,
Art, Religion & God.
Written for the lay person, while remaining true to the original ideas, this
is an engaging account of the Metaphysical foundations of Philosophy that is
both illuminating and thought provoking. (Cover Photograph: Plato & Aristotle
- The School of Athens by Raphael)
Philosophy Book Philosophical Sketches: Chapter Headings & Content Summary
"You must be the change you wish to see in the
world."
(Mohandas
Gandhi)
"When
forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence:
Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
... Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially
extended. In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning.
... The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which
the field strength or the energy density are particularly high. ...
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions
is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres
of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that
no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without
a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined
to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm
and the misguided. ... Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking
if it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein
realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe
- the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the
intuitions of the ancient
philosophers and mystics.
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