Post by frank on Aug 1, 2016 0:47:12 GMT
1. Why is Faqir Chand’s experience important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chand’s experience are important due to his role in giving first hand accounts of experiences regarding religiously influenced ideas of miracles and change in his life. Specifically in regards to near death experiences, he believed the brain’s own power of simulation and active abstract thought was what caused their visions and beliefs, influencing them to see the results around them as the aftereffects of a higher being’s actions, distancing themselves from the impact they themselves had on it. This is both beneficial and harmful, as it may ease the mind during bouts of bad experiences, saying they had little to do with it and it was an act of a God, yet when they themselves are the cause, they similarly brush off responsibility to that of an external force. Ignoring these abilities and possibility for change in oneself leaves the actual change, upon its arrival, unfulfilling.
2. What is meant by the phrase, “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”
Philosophy is a core “technique” of sorts to many fields, in the way of which it is defined as a critical thinking and seeking of information to be more aware of the world around us. In seeking to understand anything, one is philosophizing the many things the subject can or can not be. Observations of the topic in question, hypothesizing, and reaching logical conclusions from these arguments borrow the same steps as the scientific method. The philosophy of medical fields is essentially the knowledge gained through the study of the sciences, both of which require research and experimentation and function under distinct logical structures that support conclusions. In the event that these conclusions are not reached, and arrive at no breakthrough, philosophy fails to shed its role as “not really a field”, with others assuming with nothing to show for it, the thinking and rationalizing behind ones steps was for naught.
Faqir Chand’s experience are important due to his role in giving first hand accounts of experiences regarding religiously influenced ideas of miracles and change in his life. Specifically in regards to near death experiences, he believed the brain’s own power of simulation and active abstract thought was what caused their visions and beliefs, influencing them to see the results around them as the aftereffects of a higher being’s actions, distancing themselves from the impact they themselves had on it. This is both beneficial and harmful, as it may ease the mind during bouts of bad experiences, saying they had little to do with it and it was an act of a God, yet when they themselves are the cause, they similarly brush off responsibility to that of an external force. Ignoring these abilities and possibility for change in oneself leaves the actual change, upon its arrival, unfulfilling.
2. What is meant by the phrase, “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”
Philosophy is a core “technique” of sorts to many fields, in the way of which it is defined as a critical thinking and seeking of information to be more aware of the world around us. In seeking to understand anything, one is philosophizing the many things the subject can or can not be. Observations of the topic in question, hypothesizing, and reaching logical conclusions from these arguments borrow the same steps as the scientific method. The philosophy of medical fields is essentially the knowledge gained through the study of the sciences, both of which require research and experimentation and function under distinct logical structures that support conclusions. In the event that these conclusions are not reached, and arrive at no breakthrough, philosophy fails to shed its role as “not really a field”, with others assuming with nothing to show for it, the thinking and rationalizing behind ones steps was for naught.