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History of Philosophy

by Julian Marias

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Philosophy is the study in the observation of reality and logically expressing causes and effects. Philosophy comes from within our consciousness, and, is only relative to our perceptiveness and power of deduction.

Studying the ancients, will only give you the basis of 'how' too express your theories, not how they arrived at their conclusions, Take into consideration their relative level of educational evolution, (an era where the Earth was still flat), as compared to this day and age.

You can not 'learn' Philosophy; as, it is only something that can be 'realized'

Try reading Bertrand Russell's 'The Problems Of Philosophy'.

Go to a local college bookstore. Get a catalog. Look up the requirements for a philosophy minor or major.

Go back to the book store. Buy a couple of beginning text books. Work through them.

That's the best starting point. Once you have made it through enough material to have a minor in the topic, you will know enough to be self directed.

Teach Yourself Philosophy - from the library.

or

Philosophy for idiots

or

Philosophy made simple

They are a good start, however, it is only a start.

Philosophy comes alive when two or more come together over a pint and argue a topic in a rational and focused way

There is a huge difference between being a philosopher and studying philosophy.

Start by asking questions. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Ask yourself...Who Am I? What am I? Where did I come from?

I would suggest Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. It's a good place to start. But realize he was an atheist and had his own particular biases. Much of Plato's ideas were absorbed into Christian Theology which Russell does not cover in much depth.

You may start like this: After all human beings are just robots made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., and toys of the spirits for their games.

Human beings are ruled by spirits but humans must learn to control and rule the spirits. Spirits possess people according to the mental state of the human beings and keep them in the same state until they are rejected and replaced by another. This is an all time phenomena occurring in all humans. Human beings are always under the influence of spirits. Certain situations and circumstances causes the possession of certain type of spirits. Often thinking and talking about bad subjects or bad imaginations even for fun can take serious turns on one who think and talk. All spirits (good and bad) have the dominating character. They can take you to the extent of sacrifice or suicide.

All of your activities, talks and even thoughts determine what kind of spirits you will have for your life. Only these spirits are the reason for the good and bad happening in your life. Generally spirits determine your destiny from your daily activities, talks and thoughts too. All knowledge, skills, emotions, feelings, interests and everything are spirits. Even thoughts are not your own. When you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another they think and you just listen and choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A human being during his/her lifetime is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. All human beings are just unprogrammed robots made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., by birth and toys of the spirits for their games.

You must not leave your mind in it's own way. If you do, the spirit will take your mind for it's own, then controlling it is not so easy. No one lives in any form after death. Reincarnation is a rare phenomenon which is not possible to all. To form a reincarnation all spirits which lived with a body must possess another person together. Then only he/she can feel same thing of the demised person. But this is not happening because the spirits never stay together to haunt or possess another. They go to different bodies. Rarely there might have been certain cases but I think it had changed after some time. Spirits during their life time live with many bodies (one after another). Their memories sometimes affects the person. This is natural. This is not enough to believe that there is rebirth. No one returns after death. A human's life ends with a single body.

Louis P. Pojman ("Classics of Philosophy;" "Philosophy: The Quest for Truth" and many other well-reviewed titles);

Omraam Aivanhov ("A Philosophy of Universality");

Brian Hines ("Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization");

Rebecca Goldstein ("Plato at the Googleplex");

Quee Nelson ("The Slightest Philosophy");

Ben-Ami Scharfstein ("A Comparative History of World Philosophy: From the Upanishads to Kant;" "The Philosophers: Their Lives and the Nature of Their Thought");

Paul Johnson ("("Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky");

Frederick Copleston ("A History of Philosophy," 9 volumes);

Soren Kierkegaard ("Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing");

Tom Morris ("Philosophy for Dummies").

i would suggest bertrand russell's history of western philosophy... it's a good place to start... but realize he was an atheist and had his own particular biases... much of plato's ideas were absorbed into christian theology which russell does not cover in much depth...