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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 8 years ago

How sane you reckon you are?

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phi·los·o·phy (f-ls-f)

n. 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.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    What fun would that be?

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    What is sanity? What determines sanity? Is sanity something that can be measured? If so, with what? A sanitometer? We have no objective standard by which to judge sanity or lack thereof, only mass opinion. 'Sanity' is the few charicteristics that the majority of people on this world consider to be correct and most people fall somewhere short of this. Some fall shorter than others, I'd say I fall shorter than many, but not as short as some. However from a personal, subjective point of view - looking out at the state of humanity and what most people consider to be sane, normal behavior... I'd rather pass on it.

  • 7 years ago

    It's all relative really, I get from one chaotic day to another eventually.

    One can love the pursuit of wisdom and indoctrinate many investigations in this meaningful investigation of self discipline and development.

    If this is done in a way that appears haphazard to others they may well think one to be 'off the wall' or deluded to a degree.

    but then are we not all to some extent?

  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    The thing is.. How can I tell? If I go by the next person, I may be as crazy as all heck, but then again I could be the sanest person you would ever meet. What precisely IS sane.

  • 8 years ago

    I say that I'm only sane enough to cover my insanity in front everyone else. Alone and free, I am a nonsensical thing. Pitiable and frothing. Insanity is my main composition. :3

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Wellllllll,

    I reckon I be completely, unadulteratedly, immeasurably sane. All of the time. Day-in and day-out.

    Unless someone says that I am not.

  • 8 years ago

    I'm the only sane one on the internet I no this because every one ells is nuty

    I live the Lansernuty My name is Pollypotty How Do you Do

  • 8 years ago

    as sane as my education

    my education = the education i have got - as much as i forgot + my ability of critical thinking

    you can't measure critical thinking and judgement. high critical thinking doesn't mean sound judgement but it helps.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQBPWv11izc&list=PL...

    That video is about:

    the more you are informed, the better you can judge. this makes the powerful to have all information under their control. this is where your sanity goes under. as we don't know what's happening, as we don't have time to know them all, for the sake of sanity, we should accept our destiny - in the hands of the powerful. we are fed with some information and not fed with other necessary information; this means our idea becomes what they want.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    If you are really clever enough, you can guess it from my answer. Philosophize everything. Then only you will get the correct clue. As a true philosopher, I never underestimate the potential powers of people in general.

    Source(s): own.
  • 8 years ago

    Totally insane, which means I'm perfectly sane.

  • 8 years ago

    Somewhere between the joker and hannibal lecter

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