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Why ask a philosophy question when seeking your own truth?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    That's not a good statement. Not fair, or RUDE? not sure, let me think, The truth is relevant, the truth is GOD. Seek and you shall find.

    Peace grasshopper

  • Geri42
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I'm curious as to why you care what people ask, or where they post it. Each person must seek their own way. If we're so busy watching, and finding fault with others, we just might miss the good stuff that comes our way.

    I say, "live and let live." If you're busy really living your own life you'll be so busy you won't have time to watch other people, and how they're living theirs.

    I feel that in asking a philosophy question it brings each individual closer to their own truth. However, I must say, there's only one real truth, and that's God's word. So, as long as you align your own "truth" up with God's Truth you'll do okay.

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm not sure what you mean by "your own truth." When I ask philosophy questions, it's either because I'm curious what other people think and why, or I'm looking for THE truth--the way things really are in reality.

  • 1 decade ago

    phi·los·o·phy

    NOUN:

    pl. phi·los·o·phies

    1. Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.

    2. Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.

    3. A system of thought based on or involving such inquiry: the philosophy of Hume.

    4. The critical analysis of fundamental assumptions or beliefs.

    5. The disciplines presented in university curriculums of science and the liberal arts, except medicine, law, and theology.

    6. The discipline comprising logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.

    7. A set of ideas or beliefs relating to a particular field or activity; an underlying theory: an original philosophy of advertising.

    8. A system of values by which one lives: has an unusual philosophy of life.

    As the definition shows, philosophy is based on logical reasoning... not on a person's "own truth". Like it or not philosophical reasoning is based on facts (inductive reasoning, or deductive reasoning), not just on pure speculations.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Mostly I am just trying to educate through questions and answers. I seldom hear anything new or informative in Yahoo because I don't have a very open mind. I am the know-it-all at the center of it all.

  • 1 decade ago

    because it gives me a difference view and help me to seek my own answers. Sometime they help me to get to know myself from comparing the answers that I've never thought about.

  • 1 decade ago

    because philosophy can help in your quest for your truth.

  • 1 decade ago

    One must philosophize the truth, before the truth can philosophize you.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    to gain assurance to support your own thinking, or in other words, to affirm that what you think is indeed valid.

  • 1 decade ago

    that's what hitler's grandmother asked.

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