Aries D.

Marzo
CS 1202
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Hum 102

1. What is the Theory of Reality?

A common colloquial usage would have reality mean "perceptions, beliefs, and
attitudes toward reality," as in "My reality is not your reality." This is often used just
as a colloquialism indicating that the parties to a conversation agree, or should
agree, not to quibble over deeply different conceptions of what is real. For example,
in a religious discussion between friends, one might say (attempting humor), "You
might disagree, but in my reality, everyone goes to heaven."
Reality can be defined in a way that links it to world views or parts of them
(conceptual frameworks): Reality is the totality of all things, structures (actual and
conceptual), events (past and present) and phenomena, whether observable or not.
It is what a world view (whether it be based on individual or shared human
experience) ultimately attempts to describe or map.
Certain ideas from physics, philosophy, sociology, literary criticism, and other fields
shape various theories of reality. One such belief is that there simply and
literally is no reality beyond the perceptions or beliefs we each have about reality.
Such attitudes are summarized in the popular statement, "Perception is reality" or
"Life is how you perceive reality" or "reality is what you can get away with" (Robert
Anton Wilson), and they indicate anti-realism that is, the view that there is no
objective reality, whether acknowledged explicitly or not.

2. What is Being?
Being is an extremely broad concept
encompassing objective and subjective features of reality and existence. Anything
that partakes in being is also called a "being", though often this use is limited to
entities that have subjectivity (as in the expression "human being"). So broad a
notion has inevitably been elusive and controversial in the history of philosophy,

beginning in western philosophy with attempts among the pre-Socratics to deploy it

intelligibly.

3. What are the characteristics and kinds of being?

Actual, Existing in reality and not potential, possible, simulated, or false
Whatever exists now is an actual being.
Potential Capable of being but not yet in existence; latent or undeveloped
Grammar of, relating to, or being a verbal construction with auxiliaries such a
s may or can

4. What is inquiry, insight and philosophizing?

Inquiry is to gain insight into questions about knowledge, truth, reason, reality,
meaning, mind and value. Other human endeavours, not least art and literature,
explore aspects of these same questions, but it is philosophy that mounts a direct
assault on them, in the hope of clarifying them and, where possible, answering
them.

Insight is the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a

person or thing. Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect in a
specific context.
Philosophizing is the practice of talking or thinking about important subjects
imprecisely or
boringly, sometimes instead of doing something
practical and the practice of explaining
philosophically

5. What is yoga as spiritual meditation? Explain.

Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice or discipline which originated

in India. There is a broad variety of schools, practices and
goals[2] in Hinduism, Buddhism (particularly Vajrayana Buddhism) and Jainism. The
best-known are Hatha yoga and Raja.
The origins of yoga have been speculated to date back to preVedic Indian traditions, but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth
centuries BCE, in ancient India's ascetic and ramaa movements

6. What is humanity according to Confucius?

Confucius said that humanity, or Ren, is a love of people stating if you want to
make a stand, help others make a stand. That is, the Confucian theory of humanity
exemplifies the golden rule. It is so central to Confucian thought that it appears 58
times in the Analects. Similar to the Christian process of seeking God, Confucius
teaches seeking Ren to a point of seemingly divine mastery until you are equal to,
or better than, your teacher. The Confucian concept of Ren encompasses both love
and altruism.