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Harampang: Philosophy Matters: Phythagorean Reflection : I n the pursuit of li fe's und erstanding and p urifi cation of soul , Phythagoras (c. 570-c. 495 BC), Ionian phil osopher and mathe mati...

I n the pursuit of li fe's und erstanding and p urifi cation of soul , Phythagoras   (c. 570-c. 495 BC), Ionian phil osopher and mathe mati cian, dist i nguished three diffe r ent kinds of lives and by implications the three division of th e soul. By w ay of illus tration , there, are, he said, three diff erent of people who go to the O lymp ia n games. The lo wes t cla s s is made up of t hose  who go there to bu y an d sel l , to make a profit. Ne x t are th ose who go the re to co mpe t e, to gain hon ors . Best of all, he th ought , are those who come as spectato rs, who reflect upon and analyze what is happening. Of thes e three spectator illustrates the a ctivity of philo soph ers who are liberated from daily life and its imperfections .

I n the dren ch of considered proble matic situation, the feeling of helplessness  seems overpowered by the problem, keeps coming as if it would be the last of everything. That hopes seems to feat her away; a choke that softly fade the hope for brig hter day, for cheering up. A piece of a dvi ce are rem ind ing in every thought that comes as the desperation to quench that lacking possibility haunt. Is this life really is? full of pouring. Dark is coming that no matter risk of pleading it will be dark. Reminiscing the past would only do no good in facing the seeming switch of path. Wishing, only do harm but hope would only be the point of worth clinging. Is it bad or good? or is it considerable to weight? . It is for a man, whose last rational option is to hope. At is a fact, that in every dark sooner or later light shall emerge in a fine cold morning.

       " I f we trust the famous words of Pericles in the Funeral Oration that gives a guaranty that those w h o forced every sea and lan d to become the scene of their daring will not remain without wit ne ss and will need neither Homer nor anyone else who knows how to turn words to prai s e them; without existence from others, those who acted will be able to establish together the everlasting remembrance of their good and bad d e eds, to inspire admiration in the present and in future age s ."         O n the idea of life struggles lead us to th i nk particularly with our current condition that life really is not most satisfying, it urges us individually to look for m or e what we c ould consider as worth living. Oth e rs may re m ain idle o r far more worst stagnant in their own la k e, afraid to break free from the shackles that they are conditioned to exist. Although there are attempts to walk across, the path we perceive would change o...

           When confronted with the question, how could it be possibly describe a blue color to a blind man since birth? Often it put an individual to brief silence or taken aback, putting into a deep interest of providing an answer to such query. Thinking any possible way that could perhaps describe, the blue color to a blind man since birth. Some would refer a blue as to the feeling of sadness; others would refer in relation to rain, which is usually regarded as a trigger of depressive emotions.  Blue commonly used to symbolize male gender in contrast to pink used for females. But despite the nod of the blind man to the given description, the question remains whether such description could guarantee that the blind man could picture out the color blue or still confuse of what is really a blue remains. The dichotomy of a blind man and able individual to see remains a point to consider. A blind may possibly had the idea of what is blue but compared to t...

        A n selm’s Naming the Unnameable God: Levinas, Derrida and Marion presents a postmodern phenomenological approach to the problem of expressing God’s subtle integrity. The interpretation of Kim to the works of the three French thinkers, attempt to usher the thinking in a unique alternative way of naming this unnameable God, in a way that it would preserve God’s irreducible transcendence and to avoid a sheer kataphasis and sheer apophasis.        The  following also presents Levinas, Derrida and Marion’s argument is the need to reject ontotheological approach, for such thinking would only be dangerous to believer and non-believer. Ontotheology would only contribute to the oblivion or forgetfulness of being. For such employment method would only recede the nexus towards naming this unnameable God.          The following review would give an overview provided by Anselm Kim’s interpretation to Levinas, Derri...