Monday, November 28, 2011

Ladders of philosophy

A person can quite easily evolve his thinking capabilities in everyday life. Let's take an example. Taking out the garbage is ordinary physical work, while thinking about taking out the garbage is a small-scale philosophical experiment. Here a person has climbed one step on the philosophical ladder.

Next step in this ladder is to evaluate the thinking process, and during this evaluation, observe what is a person's motivation to use brain capacity to think about taking out the garbage. Obviously, the highest philosophical ladder is reached when one comes to the conclusion that thinking about thinking about taking out the garbage is a waste of brain capacity and falls into a state where there are no thoughts at all.

Not all persons understand the importance of climbing philosophical ladders. Such persons insist on sticking on the first stage on the example given above. Such persons, let's say for example a wife, will use first seemingly strong arguments, then brute force to convince that it is actually a good idea to take out the garbage, but in reality that kind of persons are just trying to limit one from improving his mental capability.



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