Metaphysics:
What is real?
Does anybody really know what is real anymore I guess we do. Take that your stung by a bee or something else you feel the pain that is real. However when you go to sleep and have a dream that you and a relative that passed away are fishing or something is that real? It might seem that way at that point but you never really know.
Is the physical world more or less real than the spiritual or psychological world?
I believe that it is all real in some way or the other the physical world is of course real, we feel pain, happiness, love how else we would feel those if it was not real. The spiritual world is real in a different way by that way we cannot see. Here is an example at my old house I would be home alone and every so often I would hear noises upstairs like foot steps to this day I could not tell you what the noise was.
Is there such a thing as a soul? And if so, how does it survive outside of a physical body?
Yes I believe there is such thing as soul how else would you explain heaven and hell. It survives outside the body because our bodies are not yet dead. Just like when you go to bed at night and have a dream about a dead relative that you two are fishing. It’s like your spirit meeting with that person just like if you went to visit a friend.
Do all people have free will, or are lives determined by fate?
I believe that all people do have free will but there are places that you live that you might not though. Take South Korea or any other dictatorship those people that live there sadly don’t seem to have free will.
Epistemology:
How is anything known?
That is a good question and there are probably a lot of answers to this question but coming u...
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It has been suggested the etymology of the word “soul” is derived from the formation of the Germanic base as sea. On the other hand, “soul” primarily comes from the old English word sáwl, and has about the same meaning as the word today (the principal of life in man or animal.) (OED, 2015) The first definition in the Oxford English Dictionary is “an essential principal or attribute of life, and related senses,” and the second definition is “the principal of intelligence, thought, or action in a person…” These two definitions help better exemplify Fuller’s and Emerson’s concept of the word “soul.” Both writers believe the soul is a consciousness of its own, it is the most revealing and imperative source of knowledge. In that sense, knowledge is the “attribute of life” animating us to live. For one to live, one must think knowledgeably to better
Jan Westerhoff, the author of Reality, A very short introduction called this the 1984 definition of reality. “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the party, which is collective and immortal.” That is an acceptable definition but it isn’t broad enough. Jan Westerhoff also argues that reality is solid and tangible. He argues, “As Philip K. Dick put it, a real thing is one which, when stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” Reality is, that no definition is brief enough to capture every aspect required to describe reality.
You walk up to the bookshelf and grab a book. Flipping through the pages you glance through the book and place it back on the shelf. You know what you picked up was a book, how it felt, and how it was supposed to look. Or do you? It could just be a trick being played on you by your own senses. What if everything that you can touch, see, taste, smell, and hear is all a cruel trick being played on you by your own body? How can you tell if something is real if you cannot trust your own senses? Having a choice between what's real and what is not, everyone would choose reality.
Another question is what is the currency used by the two in their communication. Physical forces are mediated by subatomic particles. What serves to mediate between body and soul ?
"Forms of life resemble what I call, 'realities'. Forms of life are always form of life forming. Realities are always realities becoming" (Mehan & Wood, Five Features of Reality, 65). What is Reality? Is reality what everyone believes in or does everyone have his or her own reality? Can your reality change what you believe in? Is reality a belief, or is it what you believe in your reality? Can your reality be right or wrong?
a person believes is real. Often people can put an illusion in some ones head
Soul. A word without a true definition because it is so much more than an object. The soul is the root of life. The soul is found within the human body, a shield from evil, the essence of mankind. The desire to love, to be loved and be accepted by another group gives someone a soul.
Accordingly, the model would be that a human person is a multi-level being in which there is a kind of ultra-powerful transcendental unity of both apprehension and life and that body is a real but lower appearance and effect of Unity. That Unity used to be called "soul".
Someone once told me that the physical world is not real, and that the spiritual or psychological world is real. I couldn’t believe it because my eyes, nose, and sense taste and feeling can detect the elements of the physical surrounding, unlike that of the spiritual or psychological world. Ideally, the Bible keeps insisting that there is a shadow world in which the soul of the dead reside. When my grandmother died, the bishop said that her should had left her physical body, and thus was surviving outside her, and I believed it as real because I have heard of real life stories about the dead coming back to torment the living. So, the soul can survive outside the physical body.
The most pondered about question for a lot of people is what happens after we die? Is it a dark abyss, do we fall into a hole of nothingness, or is there an afterlife where our soul lives without our bodies? Although many are quick to respond, the true answer will always be unknown, because although we can think about death as we live, there’s no way of really knowing what will happen outside our mind when we’re gone, if the mind is one of the few things agreed upon that is certain. Thomas Nagel, author of What Does It All Mean?, considers that if a person “consists of a soul and a body connected together, we can understand how life after death might be possible” (page 89). Most philosophers argue that each person does have a soul, and this soul is a body of knowledge that people should expand upon while pushing aside bodily influences. Counter to the skepticism of Nagel, Greek philosopher Plato, in his work the Phaedo, uses the Theory of Forms to reason why souls must exist, however he lacks strength in explaining the cycle of birth and death for the soul, and more importantly how the soul popped into existence.
Some people might say that the existence of the soul may be supported by the following theories conducted by philosophers and theorists. Firstly, some will argue that our five senses are one way to prove the existence of certain notions, but it creates a tentative argument to prove something an individual can’t see nor touch (Kagan, 2008). However, the existence of atoms, for instance, has been proven without the possibility to see or touch them because as the atomic theory states, posit atoms suddenly begin to explain concepts that need clarification with the inferred existence of atoms (Kagan, 2008). In reference to that, inferring the existence of the soul may be the explanation to present or future concepts offering it the best and simplest form of interpretation (Kagan, 2008). Secondly, Plato argued that death must come from life, and life from death suggesting a series of rebirth. He believed that all individuals gained a form of past knowledge by our ‘souls’ before being brought into this life (Godwin,
At least once in our lifetime we will ask or be asked the question, “What is real?” Sometimes this is cause from a lost relationship, changing social complexes, and even when experiencing a midlife crisis. In answering this question, we must look deep into our thoughts, and meditate on what we believe it means to exist, to be, and to have meaning. To answers the questions lurking in your mind, a combination of Realism and Antirealism is needed to describe Reality. We must use a subjective mind to observe the objective external world, which in turn creates what we perceive to be real.
What is meant by Metaphysics? Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value.
The soul can be defined as a perennial enigma that one may never understand. But many people rose to the challenge of effectively explaining just what the soul is about, along with outlining its desires. Three of these people are Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine. Even though all three had distinctive views, the similarities between their views are strikingly vivid. The soul indeed is an enigma to mankind and the only rational explanation of its being is yet to come and may never arrive.
My idea of the self is a combination of some ideas from Plato, Immanuel Kant, and from my own interpretations. Plato believed that the self was constructed of three parts: reason, physical appetite, and spirit/passion. According to Plato, reason is the part of us that wishes to seek truth and knowledge; Physical appetite is our basic desires such as sex, hunger and thirst; Spirit is the part of us that allows us to have a temper or to experience emotions such as love and empathy. He also believed that the soul was immortal. Immanuel Kant believed that the self is “the transcendental activity that synthesizes the contents of the consciousness into an intelligible whole.” While I don’t completely take either of their perspectives, I do agree with some aspects of each. I do not believe the soul is immortal.