Arts and Entertainment: Philosophy Articles from EzineArticles.com EzineArticles.com - Trusted By Millions as The Source For Quality Original Articles Positive Constructivism and Life in the Threshold of Existence 9 Mar 2010 at 5:14pm Time for a mortal existence narrows the infinite amount of actions to be made in relativity with an immortal existence. Thus, as actions produce the history of an individual through the process of accumulation in nature, after the birth and emergence of individual's existence, through specialization the time relativistic limited potential can be focused to increase the procedural capacity within the areas of specialization. Literature - An Overview 9 Mar 2010 at 12:33pm Literature is one of the greatest creations of mankind. It has always shown the right path to the mankind. It flights without any prejudices crossing the boundaries of nations and continents. Does Morality Require a Transcendent Order? 8 Mar 2010 at 4:46pm Of course, the final response to the advocate of supernatural moral authoritarianism is that all believers fall short of their extravagant claims. It is false that morality can only come by way of transcendent authority. It is even doubtful anyone's moral beliefs are really based on the commands of a supernatural law-giver. How Cultural Continuums Unlock the Mystery of War 8 Mar 2010 at 11:39am As civilizations are built over civilizations, development grow further from already developed platforms, the constancy of birth of new generations are born daily into a more developed world within the developed nations, for now comprehensible reasons the persistent existence of war still plagues humanity. When looking back to the history of mankind, the appearance of the ancient humans encapsulate something of a magical kind around them. In relativity with the scientific realism, the amount of fantasy included to the natural phenomena make the mystical hunting experts and survivalists in the past even more mysterious, with brains relatively the... The Crisis of Civilization And Cultural Criticism 5 Mar 2010 at 5:16pm It can be said, with good reason, that Western civilization has reached a major crisis or turning point in its history. Yet, we have always assumed that our culture, our way of life, could not fail to survive such challenges. We feel that our history clearly validates this belief as we examine the records of the past. Definition of Information Driven Continuum For Cultural And Personal Use 5 Mar 2010 at 3:13pm Human life is information driven, whether we speak of it in the level of the mass mind or in individual level. Members of the same culture produce through their actions the a cumulating lineage of history, and intercausalities, whether an individual is working to feed his or her family, or being a part of mass movement such as voting or engaging war with another culture. Thus it is only a matter of the level of the scope where the same phenomenon of information driven continuums are investigated. Spirits and Gods - Who Has the Burden of Proof? 5 Mar 2010 at 8:42am Who has the burden of "proving" his case? Is it the theist who claims that an extraordinary entity exists? (One example of an extraordinary entity is a supernatural being who relates in some ways to humanity and who is the ground for all reality,) Or is it the non-theist (atheist, agnostic, skeptic) who finds that there isn't any clear indication of such an entity? Why the Harshness of Mortality Gives Meaning For the Ethical Emergence of Lif... 4 Mar 2010 at 9:44pm The briefness of existence is one of the founding truths in Buddhism, and the expected time for existence influences highly to the choices we make every day. In ethics, the influence of mortality can be perceived in that we do not want to cause unnecessary harm to another life form or we can simply state that you do not have time for the miseries that follow unethical conduct of actions. Is Reality Real? Or Are We Making it All Up? 4 Mar 2010 at 11:58am It is difficult to define reality because reality is different from one person to another; it all depends on how we interpret things. But is it real or just a creation of the mind. The Mayan Calendar End Times 2012 Prophecy - Is This Just Another Y2K Scare? 2 Mar 2010 at 9:53pm If you've done any surfing around the web lately, you have most likely noticed that there is a lot of hoopla surrounding Mayan calendar end times 2012. The Mayan Long Count Calendar is going to end on December 21, 2012, bringing the end of the world as we know it. At first glance this sounds a bit like the Y2K alarm ten years ago - there was a lot of concern about the effect on quality of life but it turned out to be a lot of fuss about an event barely worth notice. Will the Mayan calendar end times 2012 prophecy be the same? Greek Philosophy 1 Mar 2010 at 4:00pm Thales of Miletus, one of the seven wise men of Greece, is said to have been the first philosopher. Thales started what is called the Ionic school of philosophy about 600 B.C. This school gave it's attention to the problem, what is the world really made of? The First Step Away From Religion - Logic and Knowledge Are Greater Than Faith 28 Feb 2010 at 5:49pm I recently enjoyed reading an excellent summary by a talented and free-thinking author, expressing the serious limitations imposed upon the thoughts and life style of millions of decent, ordinary people by a variety of organized religions and faith systems which stubbornly refuse to update their dogmas to accommodate the pressing needs and more advanced knowledge of today. I must say that I concur with most, possibly all of the sentiments expressed by this writer but may I raise one small voice in the defense of the religion into which I was born and which sustained and kept me safe through childhood, adolescence and early manhood... Metaphysics 101 - Tickling You Awake - A Ripple Through Your Unconscious 26 Feb 2010 at 8:35pm Who am I? What is life all about? Is there purpose to life? Where am I in the scheme of the Cosmos? These and millions of similar questions are contained within man's search for meaning. An ant doesn't particularly care about its place in the scheme of things. It just is and does. Man is not like that; man is reflective in nature. We need to know so we ask. To me philosophy is the totality of man's yearning and searching, all his questions, all his processes, all his answers and conundrums. The Cosmological Eon and the Realms of Earth - How Contemporary Realisms Are ... 26 Feb 2010 at 4:08pm History teaches to us that throughout the history of mankind civilizations have been built over civilizations, and that the realisms in parallel with different cultures have been drastically different, most of when compared between the now existing technologically and scientifically developed nations. Knowledge has the tendency to develop, and the peaks of our understanding are merely the starting points of new generations. In this article, I will burst the bubble surrounding the sense that our developed realism is the ultimate one. Metaphysical Existence of the Truths - How and Why Truths Are Universal 26 Feb 2010 at 11:07am The emergence of truths is in most cases either caused by the properties of semantics or patterns of different causalities that are all together combined by the sub-conscious as representations to consciousness. Both of these phenomena belong to phenomenal world of consciousness, and thus, every type of consciousness that contain similar cognitive properties of finding truths from combined patterns and entities are, when the proper neural causalities exist, able to produce same truths from the universal representational space.