how to apply philosophy to real world?

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Drain your brain, and go religion, or put your philosophy on the 'train your brain' track.

Philosophy is just empty speculation if it is not based on what is real.

Major people like John Searles use what is real, and interpret its significance for the rest of us.

They don't hide in a corner and cogitate.

If you want to be a philosopher, and not pump out porta-potties to eake out an existence, be strong and successful by training your brain, based on the fundamental realities of life.

Recognize that each person is unique, AND connected with everyone, and everything.

Recognize that life is both physical, and non-physical. You can touch your meat, and not your hopes.

Base your actions on the reality that causes produce effects, and no one escapes that.

Accept that events change, yet life goes on.

Realize that life throws a lot of curves, and confusion your way, so you have to train your brain every day in order to clean out the confusion, and replace it with cognitive integration.

Fortunately, that method was worked out a long time ago by a humanistic genius named Nichiren.

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Ultimate truth can only be found in the most neglected source: The Bible. Every other study for ultimate truth is only chasing after the wind. If you continue to look here and there for the real answers to the great questions of life you will live a depressing and stressful life. I would suggest that you start to read the Bible and free yourself from the burden of trying to find answers to philosophical questions anywhere else. Psalm 12:3-6

May the Lord silence all flattering lips

and every boastful tongue—

4 those who say,

“By our tongues we will prevail;

our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”

5 “Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan,

I will now arise, ” says the Lord.

“I will protect them from those who malign them.”

6 And the words of the Lord are flawless,

like silver purified in a crucible,

like gold[c] refined seven times.

The first thing is to know that you are already applying philosophy in your daily life; in fact, everybody does, by judging everything, including people, according to their ethical beliefs.

Metaphysically, if you acknowledge the axiom that existence is objective, and independent of the observer, then you will be able to use logic to discover which is the best cause of action to take in a given situation.

Epistemologically, if you acknowledge that reason, and logic is your only means of knowledge, you will be able to analyze situations logically, and come to better conclusions. Whereas, if your epistemology is faith, or feeling based, you will pray to a god, or look to others to solve your problems, which will not be as affective.

Politically, acknowledging the fact that man needs to be free to act, in order to achieve anything of value, including his life, you will most likely reason that the declaration of independence is the document that was created to protect a man's freedom, by providing the foundation principles that makes this possible, such as the principle of individual rights, and the right to property, which correlates from this.