Post by Antonio Gonzales on Nov 13, 2015 2:45:05 GMT
Week 11-12 Essay Questions
1. Faqir Chand's experiences gives us great perspective on the reality of what religious visions and miracles entail in terms of their origin and meaning. Furthermore, Chand uses his experiences to challenge all knowing individuals who claim they have a deeper level of understanding than everyone else. According to "The Unknowing Sage." Chand states "Those who say that they have known are wrong. No one can describe or even know the entire creation....nobody can tell about the universe, it is indescribable." In saying this, Chand is claiming that gurus and other people who have experienced visions can only gain a certain amount of knowledge about the universe and that most of people's experiences with these visions are milestones they achieve due to their own personal evolution. These visions and miracles can be bought on by a multitude of factors, but the underlying message that Chand's experiences tell us about visions is that it is created and manifested through the self.
2. This phrase is a simple, yet significantly important way of looking at the subject of philosophy. Basically, this phrase is saying that in order for philosophy to be done "right," it must put some sort of compelling, perhaps radical idea out there to be argued, researched, tested and eventually result in some sort of theory that tries to explain the philosophical idea that is being presented. On the flip side, philosophy that is done poorly has no grounds for further developing the idea; it is merely an undeveloped, hollow idea that has no real validity. For example, when we talk about things like probability or quantum mechanics in terms of their philosophical value, those are issues that have been scientifically broken down and tested which means it is philosophy done right. Religion, on the other hand, cannot be proven so in theory religion is simply a philosophical belief. I am not saying that religion is wrong and science is right, but it is simply that being simply just philosophy means there is nothing to prove or discount it as truth.
1. Faqir Chand's experiences gives us great perspective on the reality of what religious visions and miracles entail in terms of their origin and meaning. Furthermore, Chand uses his experiences to challenge all knowing individuals who claim they have a deeper level of understanding than everyone else. According to "The Unknowing Sage." Chand states "Those who say that they have known are wrong. No one can describe or even know the entire creation....nobody can tell about the universe, it is indescribable." In saying this, Chand is claiming that gurus and other people who have experienced visions can only gain a certain amount of knowledge about the universe and that most of people's experiences with these visions are milestones they achieve due to their own personal evolution. These visions and miracles can be bought on by a multitude of factors, but the underlying message that Chand's experiences tell us about visions is that it is created and manifested through the self.
2. This phrase is a simple, yet significantly important way of looking at the subject of philosophy. Basically, this phrase is saying that in order for philosophy to be done "right," it must put some sort of compelling, perhaps radical idea out there to be argued, researched, tested and eventually result in some sort of theory that tries to explain the philosophical idea that is being presented. On the flip side, philosophy that is done poorly has no grounds for further developing the idea; it is merely an undeveloped, hollow idea that has no real validity. For example, when we talk about things like probability or quantum mechanics in terms of their philosophical value, those are issues that have been scientifically broken down and tested which means it is philosophy done right. Religion, on the other hand, cannot be proven so in theory religion is simply a philosophical belief. I am not saying that religion is wrong and science is right, but it is simply that being simply just philosophy means there is nothing to prove or discount it as truth.