We've been created for a single purpose, and that is to worship Allah. In order for us to fulfill that purpose, Allah has built in us several tools. These tools have to be guided by the only thing that can guide, and that is the quran and the hadith. Our sense of seeing and hearing is a tool. Our tongue is a tool. Our limbs is a tool. Our desire is a tool. Our heart and intellectual reasoning is a tool. Our fitrah-or primordial nature in english, is a tool. All of these needs to be guided *The journey of human life has always been about guiding the tools that Allah has bestowed upon us. And through guiding them, a person will fully be in the state of submission or al-istislām, thus the purpose of his/her creation to worship Allah is achieved.* Not only that, He also created the perfect environment for us to guide our tools. The heaven, the earth, and everything in between is filled with signs of God. The quran is also filled with signs of God. When the two signs of God are met, it will become clear in the chest of those who have knowledge that the one who put these signs in the heaven and the earth is the same one who sent down the quran. When this conclusion has been reached-the inimitability of the quran, it is a crystal clear in the chest of those who have knowledge that: *There is no God but Allah, the holy Quran came from His side, and Muhammad is His messenger.* Every single branch of science is actually about studying the signs of God at it's core. But then somewhere in the history, the journey of seeking knowledge has forgotten it's essence and it's initial purpose. The quran is there to remind us back the essence and the initial purpose of seeking knowledge. Which is why the quran talks a lot about many heavenly bodies and a lot of things in the nature, it also talks about history of people of the past, it talks about tradition and social issue, then it connected all those things back to Allah-subhāna wa ta'āla, to remind us back that: *"Hey, you've been looking for the signs of God your entire lifetime, all of these that surrounded you are the signs of God. So would you be reminded?"* Just like there are people who have guided the tools that have been given to them, the opposite is also true. There are also people who have not guided their tools properly. And we see the clashes between the two everyday. - a fitra that has been guided will clash with a fitra that hasn't been guided. - a desire that has been guided will clash with a desire that hasn't been guided. - a sense of seeing and hearing that have been guided will clash a sense of seeing and hearing that haven't been guided. - a heart that has been guided will clash with a heart that hasn't been guided. - a set of limbs that has been guided will clash with a set of limbs that hasn't been guided. - a tongue that has been guided will clash with a tongue that hasn't been guided. - an intellectual reasoning that has been guided will clash with an intellectual reasoning that hasn't been guided. *So many things can be said for each of these tools. But i want to focus on one of the tools that we have. It's our intellectual reasoning.* The classic example for the clash between a guided intellectual reasoning with an unguided intellectual reasoning can be found at the science of Philosophy. The real essence of Philosophy is actually an intellectual reasoning is trying to reach the unseen world without the guidance of the unseen. While a guided intellectual reasoning will try to reach the unseen world with the guidance of the unseen-i.e the quran and the hadith. The both are trying exactly the same. Trying to reach and understand the unseen world. One of them with the help of guidance, and the other without the help of guidance. *There is a reason why intellectual reasoning needs to be guided by the guidance.* Intellectual reasoning will try to reach and understand everything, but it failed to question one thing. Can intellectual reasoning itself understand everything? Brain will stop developing at certain ages, meaning the capability of intellectual reasoning will also stop developing the moment the brain stops developing. In other word, there is limit to what human mind can comprehend. Philosophy will teach us how to understand everything through intellectual reasoning. But with the existence of axiom, undeniable fact that brain could not understand everything; essentially it defeated it's own purpose. Even if we follow the assumption that intellectual reasoning can understand everything-which is not true, it neccesitates an existing set of authentic information as the baseline for itself to start the logical thinking. Meaning, with no existing authentic information regarding God that can be percieved through our senses at all, it is inherently impossible for intellectual reasoning to actually comprehend the attributes of God on it's own-even if we follow the assumption that intellectual reasoning can understand everything. And since that there is no authentic information of God collected, people will make assumption about God, and eventually made that assumption as the baseline for their logical thinking. In another word, their assumptions will lead them to another assumptions and so on and so forth without actually touching the reality of God. Since they never actually touch the reality of God, this will lead them into a rabithole of unanswered questions. This is where the root of the problem lies. They have mistaken their assumption as the reality. And people who does this are circling around in one place and unable to escape from their perpetuity of confusion. Which is why the quran always criticizes people who follows their assumption without knowledge at all. Simply knowing this should tell us that Philosophy alone is not a reliable methodology to comprehend God and His attributes. There are better and more reliable methodologies which will provide us with the neccesary authentic information we needed to know and be used as the foundation for our intellectual reasoning to start to work, and ultimately comprehending the authentic attributes of God. And that is through the signs which He has scattered all over the world, through the holy book that God has sent to us-the Quran, and through the saying of the messenger of God Himself, prophet Muhammad(peace and blessing be upon him)-the hadith.
what are we doing here and where we going to go? its like we just woke up one morning and then its welcome to the show. dont ask any questions just go with the flow. make as much money as you can and try your best not to get broke. copy everything you see on the tv from the hairstyles to the clothes and dont think too often just do exactly as your told. you ever get confused then turn towards the alcohol. you still hear your thouhgts? then just turn up the radio as you learn to live a lifestyle of drugs, sex and rock n' roll. but in all honesty, i just need to know, is there more to the cycle than growing and getting older. living and dying just to leave behind happy home. and a whole lot of property that someday else is going to own. i just really need to know before the caskets closed. cause i'm not willing to gamble with my soul, nor am i ready to take any chances these are just simple life questions and i'm just searching for some answers like what are we doing here and what is our purpose how did we get here and who made us so perfect? and what happens once we go or is this world all really worth it. questions we dont answer because apparently we dont really have to. theres no purpose to this life and our existence merely natural? in that case please let me ask you. did you create yourself or was it somebody else who had fashioned you? because you're being that's impeccable faultless and unparalleled. you are a product of supreme intelligence and i'm merely being rational. for there isn't camera on this earth that can come close to the human eye nor a computer that can compete alongside the human mind. and if the whole world was to come together, we wouldnt be able to create a single fly so many signs yet we still deny. as science tries to justify that all this could come from none when it's simple sum, zero plus zero cannot possibly ever give you one. so from where did all this order come? for everything has its origins a maker a creator of its own. i mean the only reason your watching this video is because somebody had to press upload so you can believe in the Big Bang but i'd rather believe in He who caused it to explode Allah, The creator of the everything along with every single soul The Everliving, The Master, the only one who is in control unlike this creation beyond our imagination and NO, He's not a man nor has be any partners in association, He's on his own. and neither did He ever leave us alone just like any manufacture he left us with an instruction manual The Quran and islam and i'm sorry to jump to conclusions but it's the only one possible the only definition of God as the one and Only, supreme being its logical a book with zero contradictions with miracles that are both scientific and historical all revealed over 1400 years ago like the detailed description of the human embryo to the mountains as pegs holding firm the earth below and the two seas that dont mix in a complete separate flow to the planets in orbit alternating night and day as they stay in float the expansion of the universe and the creation of everything from H2O to the stories of the past and the preservation of Firaun to identify the lowest point in the land where Persian defeated Rome the gushing fluid that created man in the gland between the ribs and the backbone and not a world has changed its still the same so please explain how all this was known over 1400 years ago to a man who couldnt read or write, as he would recite what ever the angle spoke and you still dont believe please try come up with something thats even close but you cant. so we took God as mockery and his Messengers as a joke dismissed his scriptures as legends and tales of the ancient folk as we life according to our whims, desires and hopes saying this life is the only home we will ever know we will live then die and simply turn to bones YOLO correction: after the grass dies the rain arrives it re-grows and Allah promises to do the same thing to your every soul and bring you back from your very fingertips to your toes as the all Seeing Supreme Being watches us so close as we are surely being tested in our wealth, our health, our self and everything that we've been blessed with so believe for we will surely be resurrected and be brought back to Lord in account for every single deed as he hands us our books and order us to "READ" from the bad to the good and everything in between you, yourself are sufficient for you own accountability so dont be mad at me, YOU WERE THE ONE WHO THOUGHT HE WOULDNT COME BACK TO ME i gave you a whole life long to search after me but you were so busy chasing all that which was temporary so read and glad tidings to all those who believed. but if you disbelieve, READ and dont let that day be the first day you find out what your life really means READ!
This was actually super helpful... while it didn’t answer why were here, it did the best job at explaining the purpose of humans out of any source I’ve ever looked at. Thank you so much!
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This is great. Thank you. I was afraid the purpose of life was going to be "work at the factory and do what your boss tells you and shut up and be poor!"
Cool. Aristotle beautifully describes how functionality works in regards to the possibilities given by the traits of a defined being. But the traits and their functionality are not what we would call the *existence* of the object and thus the purpose of the traits of the being does not simultaneously explain the purpose of the existence of that being. Their functionality explains what their (the abilities, traits) purpose is, but not what the purpose of life as such is. Thus in order to "life" as such to have a purpose, there should be something that existence as existence accomplishes or serves by an ability of its own, by a possibility of its own nature, fulfilling something else, something outside itself. Saying that the purpose of existence is existence as an end in itself would not satisfy the criteria we saw in regards to functionality in other cases, where the purpose of an X must be something outside X, something else, something *for which* X is. A purpose of X should be something that explains X in reference to its function (or aim) to accomplish Y. Just as the possibility for the sake of possibility without this possibility actualizing something other then itself (being actually the possibility of *something*), is the very definition of futile and empty, so is reproduction for the sake of reproduction, or life as such is actually without a purpose or function of its own.
Hyπατία I agree with the majority of your point. In fact, I was thinking along the same lines of that it is insufficient to say that because humans are superior to other beings in certain regards (I think a more accurate word is differentiated, because other beings are superior to humans in some regards .. but i digress), that humans must exist to exercise these superior faculties .. the question then rises “to what end?” The one way in which I somewhat differ in opinion with you, is that the purpose does not need to be external to the human, for example, the theory of reincarnation proposes that we have always been, and will always be, that we come to this 3D world to relearn what we already know, achieve spiritual growth .. etc. I obviously have no idea .. but was curious if you have any thoughts on the matter.
@@allisRevealed987 well well the evil trolls here again. Get a life why don't you. And don't borher commenting back. You're just a negative narcissist looking for energy because you're weak and pathetic. Get off the pipe.
While I like this system a lot, I would note that Aristotle is basically saying that his job is the most important, and I would like to point out that math and science are like philosophy in all the ways he states philosophy is important (they help our animal/plant states and are fine for their own sake) but have the added benefit of rigor
Back then science (or the equivalent of science they had back then - natural philosophy) was seen as a part of philosophy. I don't know about mathematics but Aristotle wrote on many different subjects so he probably meant intellectual inquiry in general when he talked about philosophy.
Excellent service enriches all... "All men have been called into being for the betterment of the world. It behoveth every soul to arise and serve his brethren for the sake of God." - The Tabernacle of Unity, Baha'i Faith
Don’t spoil your life into Running behind anything ... Purpose of life ... is Life itself !! You don’t need to become someone ... you are already who you were supposed to be !!! 🙏🏻💐
Philosophy is more a means to our "highest and most godlike capabilities", rather than an end in itself. Philosophy is a means to consider possibilities, and explore the capacities and function of the human being, but the END within that process is revelation, and understanding. We are in pursuit of absolute and unalterable Truth, which is the information In Formation, and only when we come to embody this truth so fully that the pursuit is no longer necessary, and our Being, through word and deed is indistinguishable from the creative force and organization behind all being, can we be said to have reached our "highest and most godlike capabilities." Philosophy is one of many Vehicles on the road toward that level of understanding, but I don't think it is the destination.
+Gabriel Seth ... this sounds right (attainment has to be taken into account if pursuit is the bulk of a happy life). Once attained, though, then what? I imagine it might be video games ... which is what I'm off to do now. :)
Hmmm. It's convenient that Aristotle concludes that the thing that Aristotle does (philosophy) is the most important thing that any man or woman can do.
Should be said that philosophy in the ancient world encompassed pretty much every possible area of human inquiry, from metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics, to mathematics, physics and biology, and Aristotle worked in all of these areas. So if you're doing science, then you're exercising your ability to reason, and thereby doing philosophy (from Aristotle's point of view).
+Peter Mango but how did Aristotle come to find out philosophy was the most important thing human could do? maybe he philosophized to this thought... :P
Because Aristotle wanted to know be "happy." (Which is frankly why we do anything.) Aristotle came to believe that discovering -- and then acting in accord with -- the true meaning of ("endpoint," "endgame," or "goal" of any human life) brings a deeper satisfaction than anything else. His teacher Plato philosophized for this reason. Plato's teacher Socrates philosophized for this reason. People calling themselves the "experts" ("sophists") kept pummeling the -- pretty banal, pretty self-evident -- point that individuals have different tastes. And that different cultures do things "differently." From this the sophists had inferred that "man is the measure of all things." A war veteran, Socrates begged to differ. He knew others disagreed with him. He felt his culture was better than others in some way, and worse in other ways. Because he'd withstood the enemy when others fled. He knew some men brave, and others routinely cowardly, or lacking in character. Some were generous, others stingy. Some were honest, others treacherous. Some were hospitable, others unwelcoming. Some flippant, others serious. Some joyful, others stoned. Some reasonably self-controlled, and others out of control. And this, regardless of personal "tastes," or what culture you come from. People admire the same qualities. Finding out what they are -- and then acting on them toward the goal of all human life required loving the "knowledge" about these things; a.k.a., wisdom. And philosophy in Greek means literally "love of wisdom. ;)
Hmm, I think saying we do everything because we want to be "happy" is a little too simplistic. Is the appreciation you feel while looking at a great piece of artwork best characterized as "happy"? I think we do things because we want to make life better, richer more fulfilling, more exciting, happier, more tolerant, kinder, more beautiful, etc. and I feel like lumping all these different amazing human experiences into just the one word "happy" is misleading.
Before the end I was thinking I was supposed to be a politician, scientist, mathematician in order to have reached my full capability, then he said philosophy is the end, I thought, oh good something I can actually do!
The assumptions of Aristotle’s argument are unsupported. How did he conclude that language and reason are the distinctive activities that separate us from other forms of life?
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@@ExtraordinaryJam We progress as a society (hopefully don’t go extinct ) become multi planet civilisation and search the stars for answers, it’s the only thing we can do, keep learning and giving this knowledge down to our youth so they can do the same, maybe people’ ego’s won’t sit right with it but it is what is.
The purpose of the universe is to provide a vessel for intelligence to express itself. The purpose of life is to increase intelligence in the universe. The purpose of humankind is to discover and deploy technology (the application of knowledge). The purpose of individual human life is to serve the betterment of our world. The purpose of knowledge is to improve the human condition.
So plants can't comprehend what it is like to be a fully functional animal and an animal can't comprehent wat it's like to be human, does that mean that there is a potential for heigher beings incomprehensible to humans? And would all human functions be as simple as we perceive animal functions?
Yes, according to this, look into his Prime Mover and the characteristics of the Mover, how it cannot interact with the world and how we will never have knowledge of it.
edsvenbla....A devastatingly beautiful, direct, unhinged and devoid of bullshit question that the human format of ‘life’ imposes upon itself. THAT, in itself, demonstrates the emergence of cosmic awareness. Welcome everyone.
@@victoriawalker2837 by saying Woah you proved the very old saying that women can't be Philosophers. You idiot bitch, you got so immediately impressed by some copy paste statements..... Lol 😂
I've a question. What is the purpose of life if we are gonna die anyways? What's the use of something to exist that will eventually be destroyed? What if there was nothing? What if nothing existed?
probably one of the most brilliant humans to ever exist and to all that say he thinks Philosophy is god like understand he was also incorporating philosophy with science and physics
@@khalidnezami5056Depends what your looking for at that stage of your life. I have a useless degree in philosophy and politics on the way. Do I give a shit? Nah not really. Why did I chose to do them? Because I enjoy them and they provide me with guidance at a stage in my life where I dont know what to do with myself. Education is different from training. You could do a more practical degree that would train you and prepare you for a long and reliable career, sure. But it might not necessarily fulfill you, which we gotta remember is the goal of the game. If your unsure about your future or the world and want to know more, Philosophy is one of those subjects thats perfect in your early years. It leaves you with a better grasp on things and prepares you to navigate the practical world. Its seen as a joke subject by many because they cant be arsed (or are too spooked) to use their brain. But the fact is that there is a reason why the term PhD = doctorate of philosophy.
Life has a funny way of teaching us. It will create a deep sadness so we know how to truly understand happiness. It will create chaos in our lives so that we way appreciate the peaceful times and it will take chose we love away from us so that we will truly understand what their present meant to us.
Enjoyable lecture :-) thank you for sharing. I'm not exactly sure why it's struck me as a bit of a distractor at the end when you said that I had learned something because you taught me which is true. I find it easier and maybe less prideful when a teacher might use the phrase that we had learned something together instead of pointing out that I should be thankful to you directly. Anyway really did enjoy what you presented :-) I appreciate your work and Aristotle's and all those in between :-)
The purpose of life is plain and simple. Do not overthink this. The odds of being born are 1 in 400,000,000,000,000 . We are given the gift to experience life. We grow, we experience, we learn, we construct, we solve. There is nothing we cannot do. Our brains are limitless. And so the purpose of life is to fabricate it as we desire.
The claim that animals are unable to use language or reason is wrong. Most animals use some kind of komunication thats just diffrent from our human language but fulfills the same purpose. Also are many animals cabable to use reason. Otherwise it wouldnt be possible to train a dog if he couldnt figure out that obeying orders leads to good thing (reward) figuring case and effect relations out is the foundation of reasoning. If you think otherwise than please define reason.
I don't essentially disagree with you, as I think "reason" and "language" are incomplete concepts in the view of evolutionary biology. They are necessarily different in degree between species. Yet, that doesn't mean that "reason" and "language" as we define them apply to animals. Communication =/= language and rationality =/= reason. It's not that he has to define reason differently, it's that for the purposes of this argument he doesn't really have to define it differently. Thus I agree with your premise but do not accept your conclusion.
swarochisak Sure, I meant "rationality does not equal reason", which is to say the use of some measure of rationale (such as determining how best to hunt prey in a new situation) is not the same as using reason in a fully self aware manner.
about language - we are able to discuss the past, present and future, something other animals cannot 'komunicate'. Reason, noun: the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic. as defined by google. Here is an example of the exercise of reason that is incomprehensible to dogs as well as humans that have had their frontal lobes removed: "cars move fast, and in one direction, that car is facing me, and moving in one direction, if I dont move now, i will get hurt" this is something most dogs cannot understand or make judgements about
Isn't Aristotle's view of moral habituation a little like what the early behaviorists believed? That is, it's not innate character that matters but finding oneself in the right environment. And that right environment is the responsibility of the state/government. Thus Steven Pinker classed such behaviorists as Maoists in that they thought that the state, or institutions, could and should mold character and therefore behavior. In other words, is this a recipe for totalitarianism (which is often a criticism aimed at Plato's politics rather than Aristotle's)?
One problem. Our use of reason according to theory and so I claim was meant to increase our overall survival. This is seen as evident by our pain and pleasure or our survival motivators being in the driver seat. However this video brings up a good point. Why then do we sometimes disobey our pleasure and pain in accordance with our reason. The answer is we dont. We simply feel pleasure to be right and gain knowledge and use reason that overpowers our already set pleasure and pain. And sometimes it's not enough which is evident in people who eat junk food with the knowledge that it's bad for them.
We are so caught up in the fact that we persevered intelligence in the way we are able to communicate and feel. Sperm whales have displayed their means of communication as being far more advanced than ours. Yet we still decide to slaughter them and use them as food. I even find myself becoming conveluted in my thoughts and theories about our existence. Its crazy to think how simple our drive to persevere , overcome, adapt, learn is. How it's observable throughout the whole animal kingdom, even for the different species that only have nerve knots for brains.
Read nichomachena ethics. He describes what kind of person you should beç This video does not summarize him properly. Reading philosophy is only talked in a few pages of a 300 pages book.
Another broad point of view is that the purpose of life is 'to know, love and worship God, acquire virtues, promote the oneness of mankind, contribute to an ever-advancing civilization and enter into the Presence of God' ~ Baha'i Faith Concepts
If we were in a desert, and we came across a helicopter and we didn't know what a helicopter was and everyone came up with their own theory on what the helicopter is for the chances of someone getting it right isnt very high right? In order to know how to use the helicopter we should go to the one who made it. Like wise if we want to know our purpose in life, how to life our lifes, what's good and bad for us, what's morally right or wrong, we should ask the one who created us and created the whole world
There are three options either the universe came from nothing which cant happen because 0 plus 0 doesnt give you one therefore nothing plus nothing cant give you something therefore the universe cant come from nothing. The second option is that the universe created itself which requires the universe to exist and not exist at the same time it's like someone giving birth to theirself. The third option is that it is created. If you were in a desert and you came across a helicopter and you didnt know what a helicopter is you would eventually come to the conclusion that the helicopter is designed. What about this universe which is so much more complicated than a helicopter.
The fact that our eyebrows are above our eyes indicate that the creature is the most wise because it protects our eyes from salt in sweat that can damage eyes the fact that our teeth are in our mouth indicate that the creator is the most wise because you need to chew food. So would the most wise create us without a purpose? No and would the most wise create us for a purpose and leave us to figure it out? No.
The creator must of not had a beginning because everything with a beginning has to have a cause so the creator would have had to have a cause if it had a beginning and so would the cause and the cycle would go on forever therefore the only way to break this cycle is if theres a creator with no beginning. I'm a Muslim by the way
through life, we experience good and bad things. At times, we wonder what our purpose in life is. It eats away at us like maggots in a piece of meat, until nothing is left. We are not born with a purpose, we must make a purpose of life for ourselves. In All reality, We as humanity have wondered/pondered about the purpose of life. I believe that purpose is to flourish like plants (Spreading across the universe) like how with a single flower, it spreads to eventually become a meadow. There may be those, who disagree with my statement and I accept any theory you throw at me. It may seem like I'm old, and wise But Believe it or not.....I'm twenty years old.
Tldr; don't be a plant. Instructions unclear depression worsening, thinking of philosophy making me go manic, but I'm living at the peak right professor? So I should be happy to have these thoughts.
The purpose of life comes down to what you believe. Some people believe what Aristotle taught. Some people believe the purpose of life is in the accomplishments one attains in life, and then there is the belief in God and his purpose for life. Anyway you look at it its all centered around belief and faith in something. Personally I believe that the purpose in life comes from God. He does exist and we are his children. Whether you believe that or not doesn't really matter. Your belief in him doesn't make him go away it just means that you don't believe in someone that exists. We lived with him before we came to earth as his spirit sons and daughters. As his spirit children we had progressed as far as we could and in order to become like him, and in order to continue to progress we needed to gain a physical body. He created this earth for us to come to in order to get a physical body and to be tested to see if we would choose right over wrong of our own free will. He gave us his gospel and commandments that we can choose to follow or not. The purpose of life is to come to earth get a body and see if we will choose what is right. Will we choose to follow him or not? No one will be force back into his presence. You had better want what you choose because that is what you will get. In the end we all will stand in his presence and explain the thoughts, words, and actions and the intents of our actions we made in our life and why we choose not to follow him. Our choice to believe in him doesn't make him God. He will always be God. Our choice to believe in him and follow him is what brings us back to him.
the ultimate-goal or purpose of philosophy 'should' be trying to ascertain what is the best way to achieve human happiness. knowledge simply for the sake of knowledge serves no ultimate purpose. the ultimate-goal of knowledge should be to try and determine what is best for human-beings, in general.
The ultimate goal of knowledge is to further extend itself in a way that satisfies the people acquiring it such that they will extend themselves to learn even more.
Circular reasoning that feeds the appetite of one species. Why a rock or plant cannot already know the depths of existence, but have no appetite for it, means satiety is not a goal, but merely a superfluous enironment.
And if man cannot perform these activities (for example, mental illness that impedes them from doing so)? And then there are varying degrees. Im confused
Thank you for plainly explaining to me why I find learning and thinking so fulfilling, and entry-level jobs so mentally excruciating.
Boiii same but it takes too much effort to even start to do something worthwhile
Thank you for plainly explaining how I feel in words
im more on the "aspiring to be a good plant" side of things
We've been created for a single purpose, and that is to worship Allah. In order for us to fulfill that purpose, Allah has built in us several tools. These tools have to be guided by the only thing that can guide, and that is the quran and the hadith.
Our sense of seeing and hearing is a tool. Our tongue is a tool. Our limbs is a tool. Our desire is a tool. Our heart and intellectual reasoning is a tool. Our fitrah-or primordial nature in english, is a tool. All of these needs to be guided
*The journey of human life has always been about guiding the tools that Allah has bestowed upon us. And through guiding them, a person will fully be in the state of submission or al-istislām, thus the purpose of his/her creation to worship Allah is achieved.*
Not only that, He also created the perfect environment for us to guide our tools. The heaven, the earth, and everything in between is filled with signs of God. The quran is also filled with signs of God. When the two signs of God are met, it will become clear in the chest of those who have knowledge that the one who put these signs in the heaven and the earth is the same one who sent down the quran. When this conclusion has been reached-the inimitability of the quran, it is a crystal clear in the chest of those who have knowledge that:
*There is no God but Allah, the holy Quran came from His side, and Muhammad is His messenger.*
Every single branch of science is actually about studying the signs of God at it's core. But then somewhere in the history, the journey of seeking knowledge has forgotten it's essence and it's initial purpose. The quran is there to remind us back the essence and the initial purpose of seeking knowledge. Which is why the quran talks a lot about many heavenly bodies and a lot of things in the nature, it also talks about history of people of the past, it talks about tradition and social issue, then it connected all those things back to Allah-subhāna wa ta'āla, to remind us back that:
*"Hey, you've been looking for the signs of God your entire lifetime, all of these that surrounded you are the signs of God. So would you be reminded?"*
Just like there are people who have guided the tools that have been given to them, the opposite is also true. There are also people who have not guided their tools properly. And we see the clashes between the two everyday.
- a fitra that has been guided will clash with a fitra that hasn't been guided.
- a desire that has been guided will clash with a desire that hasn't been guided.
- a sense of seeing and hearing that have been guided will clash a sense of seeing and hearing that haven't been guided.
- a heart that has been guided will clash with a heart that hasn't been guided.
- a set of limbs that has been guided will clash with a set of limbs that hasn't been guided.
- a tongue that has been guided will clash with a tongue that hasn't been guided.
- an intellectual reasoning that has been guided will clash with an intellectual reasoning that hasn't been guided.
*So many things can be said for each of these tools. But i want to focus on one of the tools that we have. It's our intellectual reasoning.*
The classic example for the clash between a guided intellectual reasoning with an unguided intellectual reasoning can be found at the science of Philosophy.
The real essence of Philosophy is actually an intellectual reasoning is trying to reach the unseen world without the guidance of the unseen. While a guided intellectual reasoning will try to reach the unseen world with the guidance of the unseen-i.e the quran and the hadith.
The both are trying exactly the same. Trying to reach and understand the unseen world. One of them with the help of guidance, and the other without the help of guidance.
*There is a reason why intellectual reasoning needs to be guided by the guidance.*
Intellectual reasoning will try to reach and understand everything, but it failed to question one thing. Can intellectual reasoning itself understand everything? Brain will stop developing at certain ages, meaning the capability of intellectual reasoning will also stop developing the moment the brain stops developing. In other word, there is limit to what human mind can comprehend.
Philosophy will teach us how to understand everything through intellectual reasoning. But with the existence of axiom, undeniable fact that brain could not understand everything; essentially it defeated it's own purpose.
Even if we follow the assumption that intellectual reasoning can understand everything-which is not true, it neccesitates an existing set of authentic information as the baseline for itself to start the logical thinking. Meaning, with no existing authentic information regarding God that can be percieved through our senses at all, it is inherently impossible for intellectual reasoning to actually comprehend the attributes of God on it's own-even if we follow the assumption that intellectual reasoning can understand everything.
And since that there is no authentic information of God collected, people will make assumption about God, and eventually made that assumption as the baseline for their logical thinking. In another word, their assumptions will lead them to another assumptions and so on and so forth without actually touching the reality of God. Since they never actually touch the reality of God, this will lead them into a rabithole of unanswered questions.
This is where the root of the problem lies. They have mistaken their assumption as the reality. And people who does this are circling around in one place and unable to escape from their perpetuity of confusion. Which is why the quran always criticizes people who follows their assumption without knowledge at all.
Simply knowing this should tell us that Philosophy alone is not a reliable methodology to comprehend God and His attributes. There are better and more reliable methodologies which will provide us with the neccesary authentic information we needed to know and be used as the foundation for our intellectual reasoning to start to work, and ultimately comprehending the authentic attributes of God. And that is through the signs which He has scattered all over the world, through the holy book that God has sent to us-the Quran, and through the saying of the messenger of God Himself, prophet Muhammad(peace and blessing be upon him)-the hadith.
Sometimes I think about "How the f**k does anything exist"
Durable Ninja spoken like a true intellect
Who knows
what are we doing here and where we going to go?
its like we just woke up one morning and then its welcome to the show.
dont ask any questions just go with the flow.
make as much money as you can and try your best not to get broke.
copy everything you see on the tv from the hairstyles to the clothes
and dont think too often just do exactly as your told.
you ever get confused then turn towards the alcohol.
you still hear your thouhgts?
then just turn up the radio as you learn to live a lifestyle of drugs,
sex and rock n' roll.
but in all honesty, i just need to know,
is there more to the cycle than growing and getting older.
living and dying just to leave behind happy home.
and a whole lot of property that someday else is going to own.
i just really need to know before the caskets closed.
cause i'm not willing to gamble with my soul, nor am i ready to take any chances
these are just simple life questions and i'm just searching for some answers
like what are we doing here and what is our purpose
how did we get here and who made us so perfect?
and what happens once we go or is this world all really worth it.
questions we dont answer because apparently we dont really have to.
theres no purpose to this life and our existence merely natural?
in that case please let me ask you.
did you create yourself or was it somebody else who had fashioned you?
because you're being that's impeccable faultless and unparalleled.
you are a product of supreme intelligence and i'm merely being rational.
for there isn't camera on this earth that can come close to the human eye
nor a computer that can compete alongside the human mind.
and if the whole world was to come together, we wouldnt be able to create a single fly
so many signs yet we still deny.
as science tries to justify that all this could come from none
when it's simple sum, zero plus zero cannot possibly ever give you one.
so from where did all this order come?
for everything has its origins a maker a creator of its own.
i mean the only reason your watching this video is because somebody had to press upload
so you can believe in the Big Bang but i'd rather believe in He who caused it to explode
Allah, The creator of the everything along with every single soul
The Everliving, The Master, the only one who is in control
unlike this creation beyond our imagination and NO,
He's not a man nor has be any partners in association,
He's on his own.
and neither did He ever leave us alone
just like any manufacture he left us with an instruction manual
The Quran and islam and i'm sorry to jump to conclusions but it's the only one possible
the only definition of God as the one and Only, supreme being its logical
a book with zero contradictions with miracles that are both scientific and historical
all revealed over 1400 years ago
like the detailed description of the human embryo
to the mountains as pegs holding firm the earth below
and the two seas that dont mix in a complete separate flow
to the planets in orbit alternating night and day as they stay in float
the expansion of the universe and the creation of everything from H2O
to the stories of the past and the preservation of Firaun
to identify the lowest point in the land where Persian defeated Rome
the gushing fluid that created man in the gland between the ribs and the backbone
and not a world has changed its still the same
so please explain how all this was known over 1400 years ago
to a man who couldnt read or write, as he would recite what ever the angle spoke
and you still dont believe please try come up with something thats even close
but you cant.
so we took God as mockery and his Messengers as a joke
dismissed his scriptures as legends and tales of the ancient folk
as we life according to our whims, desires and hopes
saying this life is the only home we will ever know
we will live then die and simply turn to bones
YOLO
correction: after the grass dies the rain arrives it re-grows
and Allah promises to do the same thing to your every soul
and bring you back from your very fingertips to your toes
as the all Seeing Supreme Being watches us so close as we are surely being tested
in our wealth, our health, our self and everything that we've been blessed with
so believe for we will surely be resurrected
and be brought back to Lord in account for every single deed
as he hands us our books and order us to "READ"
from the bad to the good and everything in between
you, yourself are sufficient for you own accountability
so dont be mad at me,
YOU WERE THE ONE WHO THOUGHT HE WOULDNT COME BACK TO ME
i gave you a whole life long to search after me
but you were so busy chasing all that which was temporary
so read
and glad tidings to all those who believed.
but if you disbelieve, READ
and dont let that day be the first day you
find out what your life really means
READ!
@@mmmmmm2619 oh nevermind thats not ur words
@@mmmmmm2619 All your questions are irrelevent when you are hungry. Hunt...
That was refreshing! (It's so rare to see philosophy lessons done right on the interwebs).
Nice job, Dr.
When he pulled up the picture of the dude with his foot on the desk, that was literally the position I was in at that moment. Oh, the irony.
What are you doing here you jerk? Go and watch Niki Minaj's Songs.....
life itself is more irony than what you described which sounds more like happenstance to me
@@mettamodel just cus u take philosophy doesnt mean u have to be so pretentious lmao
my foot is on the desk right now
This was actually super helpful... while it didn’t answer why were here, it did the best job at explaining the purpose of humans out of any source I’ve ever looked at. Thank you so much!
I like the way you teach people and you give people good Example about history Thank you for everything you do for people who see you're video keep it's up is good
This is great. Thank you. I was afraid the purpose of life was going to be "work at the factory and do what your boss tells you and shut up and be poor!"
Hello deer. I Will tell you about way can lead you to paradise after death, that is islam. Thanks
@@othmanalhafed2829 alhamdullilah
@silicone unicorn To make you have a purpose in life
@@othmanalhafed2829sounds a bit gay.
this was awesome! thank you for posting
Cool. Aristotle beautifully describes how functionality works in regards to the possibilities given by the traits of a defined being. But the traits and their functionality are not what we would call the *existence* of the object and thus the purpose of the traits of the being does not simultaneously explain the purpose of the existence of that being. Their functionality explains what their (the abilities, traits) purpose is, but not what the purpose of life as such is. Thus in order to "life" as such to have a purpose, there should be something that existence as existence accomplishes or serves by an ability of its own, by a possibility of its own nature, fulfilling something else, something outside itself. Saying that the purpose of existence is existence as an end in itself would not satisfy the criteria we saw in regards to functionality in other cases, where the purpose of an X must be something outside X, something else, something *for which* X is. A purpose of X should be something that explains X in reference to its function (or aim) to accomplish Y. Just as the possibility for the sake of possibility without this possibility actualizing something other then itself (being actually the possibility of *something*), is the very definition of futile and empty, so is reproduction for the sake of reproduction, or life as such is actually without a purpose or function of its own.
Hyπατία I agree with the majority of your point. In fact, I was thinking along the same lines of that it is insufficient to say that because humans are superior to other beings in certain regards (I think a more accurate word is differentiated, because other beings are superior to humans in some regards .. but i digress), that humans must exist to exercise these superior faculties .. the question then rises “to what end?”
The one way in which I somewhat differ in opinion with you, is that the purpose does not need to be external to the human, for example, the theory of reincarnation proposes that we have always been, and will always be, that we come to this 3D world to relearn what we already know, achieve spiritual growth .. etc.
I obviously have no idea .. but was curious if you have any thoughts on the matter.
You even don't know what are you taking about u disgusting piece of shit. Why are you copying and pasting all the shit from internet
@@allisRevealed987 well well the evil trolls here again. Get a life why don't you. And don't borher commenting back. You're just a negative narcissist looking for energy because you're weak and pathetic. Get off the pipe.
@@teresahutchins2465 He trolls all in the comments. Even called Einstein a liar.
While I like this system a lot, I would note that Aristotle is basically saying that his job is the most important, and I would like to point out that math and science are like philosophy in all the ways he states philosophy is important (they help our animal/plant states and are fine for their own sake) but have the added benefit of rigor
Back then science (or the equivalent of science they had back then - natural philosophy) was seen as a part of philosophy. I don't know about mathematics but Aristotle wrote on many different subjects so he probably meant intellectual inquiry in general when he talked about philosophy.
Excellent service enriches all... "All men have been called into being for the betterment of the world. It behoveth every soul to arise and serve his brethren for the sake of God." - The Tabernacle of Unity, Baha'i Faith
Don’t spoil your life into Running behind anything ... Purpose of life ... is Life itself !! You don’t need to become someone ... you are already who you were supposed to be !!! 🙏🏻💐
Bullshit
Philosophy is more a means to our "highest and most godlike capabilities", rather than an end in itself. Philosophy is a means to consider possibilities, and explore the capacities and function of the human being, but the END within that process is revelation, and understanding. We are in pursuit of absolute and unalterable Truth, which is the information In Formation, and only when we come to embody this truth so fully that the pursuit is no longer necessary, and our Being, through word and deed is indistinguishable from the creative force and organization behind all being, can we be said to have reached our "highest and most godlike capabilities." Philosophy is one of many Vehicles on the road toward that level of understanding, but I don't think it is the destination.
+Gabriel Seth ... this sounds right (attainment has to be taken into account if pursuit is the bulk of a happy life). Once attained, though, then what?
I imagine it might be video games ... which is what I'm off to do now. :)
You explained it marvellously applaud to your explanation..
This is honestly so amazing, Thank you!
Great video to help humanity to find their direction, thanks for share.
Hmmm. It's convenient that Aristotle concludes that the thing that Aristotle does (philosophy) is the most important thing that any man or woman can do.
Should be said that philosophy in the ancient world encompassed pretty much every possible area of human inquiry, from metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics, to mathematics, physics and biology, and Aristotle worked in all of these areas. So if you're doing science, then you're exercising your ability to reason, and thereby doing philosophy (from Aristotle's point of view).
Uh, actually you have that exactly backwards...Aristotle philosophized BECAUSE he thought it was the important thing anyone could do....
+Peter Mango but how did Aristotle come to find out philosophy was the most important thing human could do? maybe he philosophized to this thought... :P
Because Aristotle wanted to know be "happy." (Which is frankly why we do anything.) Aristotle came to believe that discovering -- and then acting in accord with -- the true meaning of ("endpoint," "endgame," or "goal" of any human life) brings a deeper satisfaction than anything else. His teacher Plato philosophized for this reason. Plato's teacher Socrates philosophized for this reason. People calling themselves the "experts" ("sophists") kept pummeling the -- pretty banal, pretty self-evident -- point that individuals have different tastes. And that different cultures do things "differently." From this the sophists had inferred that "man is the measure of all things." A war veteran, Socrates begged to differ. He knew others disagreed with him. He felt his culture was better than others in some way, and worse in other ways. Because he'd withstood the enemy when others fled. He knew some men brave, and others routinely cowardly, or lacking in character. Some were generous, others stingy. Some were honest, others treacherous. Some were hospitable, others unwelcoming. Some flippant, others serious. Some joyful, others stoned. Some reasonably self-controlled, and others out of control. And this, regardless of personal "tastes," or what culture you come from. People admire the same qualities. Finding out what they are -- and then acting on them toward the goal of all human life required loving the "knowledge" about these things; a.k.a., wisdom. And philosophy in Greek means literally "love of wisdom. ;)
Hmm, I think saying we do everything because we want to be "happy" is a little too simplistic. Is the appreciation you feel while looking at a great piece of artwork best characterized as "happy"? I think we do things because we want to make life better, richer more fulfilling, more exciting, happier, more tolerant, kinder, more beautiful, etc. and I feel like lumping all these different amazing human experiences into just the one word "happy" is misleading.
How surprising that Aristotle thought that his favorite thing was the meaning of life. How unenlightening.
Thank. You. Its good start. Keep going. I love Aristotle
Before the end I was thinking I was supposed to be a politician, scientist, mathematician in order to have reached my full capability, then he said philosophy is the end, I thought, oh good something I can actually do!
@James Henry Smith except I don't believe in heaven or satan, so that doesn't fly at all for me
Love this approach to the most universal philosophical inquiry! Valid and true argument! Thanks
When you start to ponder about philosophies then you come back to square one again of what is the purpose of life. 😄
I noticed that you said that animals can not have language or friendship, but both are proven otherwise
The assumptions of Aristotle’s argument are unsupported. How did he conclude that language and reason are the distinctive activities that separate us from other forms of life?
You have spelt perceiving the wrong way in your graphic......
Spelt?? Smh
Thank you Monte, if only my school teachers were like you. :)
6:21
I am engaging my highest most god like capabilities in that exact position, excellent video!
That “good work” hit really hard for me idk why ….
Ur good ! U should update the video and repost ! This is what people need to make viral … idea : make it in Spanish maybe ? 😋 anyway i love it !!! Thanks !
This philosophy sounds like one given by my Manager at the start of the year 😂😂
The purposes of life is to make the most out of it. To live your life to the fullest and do the most good possible to make the world a better place.
Brett Pulley then what?
@@ExtraordinaryJam We progress as a society (hopefully don’t go extinct ) become multi planet civilisation and search the stars for answers, it’s the only thing we can do, keep learning and giving this knowledge down to our youth so they can do the same, maybe people’ ego’s won’t sit right with it but it is what is.
Philosophy is godlike, according to philosophers...
Philosophy does bind all subjects together with reason, however that doesn't mean it is more important than any other subject.
Architects don’t build houses, they design them...
Dom Dukes is that from a movie? 😊
Μπορει να σχεδιαζουν αλλα...χρειαζονται καποιους για να υλοποιησουν την ιδεα...ΑΛΥΣΙΔΑ
Architect designs the house then afterwards Bob the Builder builds buildings.
😂😂
Thanks for making it so easy make me love more of the philosophy
very insightful!
The purpose of the universe is to provide a vessel for intelligence to express itself.
The purpose of life is to increase intelligence in the universe.
The purpose of humankind is to discover and deploy technology (the application of knowledge).
The purpose of individual human life is to serve the betterment of our world.
The purpose of knowledge is to improve the human condition.
Agreed
So plants can't comprehend what it is like to be a fully functional animal and an animal can't comprehent wat it's like to be human, does that mean that there is a potential for heigher beings incomprehensible to humans? And would all human functions be as simple as we perceive animal functions?
Yes, according to this, look into his Prime Mover and the characteristics of the Mover, how it cannot interact with the world and how we will never have knowledge of it.
Woah.
edsvenbla....A devastatingly beautiful, direct, unhinged and devoid of bullshit question that the human format of ‘life’ imposes upon itself. THAT, in itself, demonstrates the emergence of cosmic awareness. Welcome everyone.
@@victoriawalker2837 by saying Woah you proved the very old saying that women can't be Philosophers. You idiot bitch, you got so immediately impressed by some copy paste statements..... Lol 😂
@@allisRevealed987 man...youre a whole ass aren't you? I bet you stink too with all of that negativity. Ugh dude.
I've a question. What is the purpose of life if we are gonna die anyways? What's the use of something to exist that will eventually be destroyed? What if there was nothing? What if nothing existed?
probably one of the most brilliant humans to ever exist and to all that say he thinks Philosophy is god like understand he was also incorporating philosophy with science and physics
"Philosophy man, the most Godlike superhero."
The irony part is... You have a high chance of getting unemployed when majoring in Philosophy.
Philosophy is not something to have as a major, it is a guide into the nature of reality and living the good life.
If You have any degree in philosophy then make it sure that you can't be a Philosopher.
@@khalidnezami5056Depends what your looking for at that stage of your life. I have a useless degree in philosophy and politics on the way. Do I give a shit? Nah not really. Why did I chose to do them? Because I enjoy them and they provide me with guidance at a stage in my life where I dont know what to do with myself. Education is different from training. You could do a more practical degree that would train you and prepare you for a long and reliable career, sure. But it might not necessarily fulfill you, which we gotta remember is the goal of the game.
If your unsure about your future or the world and want to know more, Philosophy is one of those subjects thats perfect in your early years. It leaves you with a better grasp on things and prepares you to navigate the practical world. Its seen as a joke subject by many because they cant be arsed (or are too spooked) to use their brain. But the fact is that there is a reason why the term PhD = doctorate of philosophy.
I am feeling so alone after watching this.
Himanshu Kashyap sorry
From your profile Picture you seem to be a Hindu Cow worshiper..... Sad... Poor guy
@@allisRevealed987 well that's not very nice. 😑
@@teresahutchins2465 it's acceptable
@@allisRevealed987 woah....extreme hate and scrolling through comments. No wonder you were a mistake
endless journey of confusing...
施云云 true
@@Chloe-ef2ug women can't be philosophers...
Sorry ✋
Love from me
Yes
And in the final analysis, all we have is theories.
True
Excellent video !
In order to understand the meaning of life, we have strive to understand and be comfortable with the concept of our own death.
I believe animals and plants have their own language.
Thanks to you and Aristotle for confusing me even more !
Great video❤️
So this is why alcohol companies flourish. It removes sadness with happiness.
his brain must have something extraordinary!
To make a long story short: Life’s purpose is to just leave your mark on earth before you die.
It's sad to realize the closest thing to a purpose in life is to make more of ourselves.
Missed the point.
God gives us a much higher purpose something we can’t imagine
God doesnt exist, that's the thing.
Very nice
Life has a funny way of teaching us. It will create a deep sadness so we know how to truly understand happiness. It will create chaos in our lives so that we way appreciate the peaceful times and it will take chose we love away from us so that we will truly understand what their present meant to us.
Anyone know what software is being used to make this style of video? I know it’s pretty common.
Is the hand drawing and writing possible in ppt?
This was made with Videoscribe!
Enjoyable lecture :-) thank you for sharing. I'm not exactly sure why it's struck me as a bit of a distractor at the end when you said that I had learned something because you taught me which is true. I find it easier and maybe less prideful when a teacher might use the phrase that we had learned something together instead of pointing out that I should be thankful to you directly. Anyway really did enjoy what you presented :-) I appreciate your work and Aristotle's and all those in between :-)
to realise and manage the planet healthily, organically and lovingly.
I love Philosophy!
The purpose of life is plain and simple. Do not overthink this. The odds of being born are 1 in 400,000,000,000,000 . We are given the gift to experience life. We grow, we experience, we learn, we construct, we solve. There is nothing we cannot do. Our brains are limitless. And so the purpose of life is to fabricate it as we desire.
No mention of creativity?
Start at 4:40
I wish i could speak with aristotle so i could argue with him about this because using this as a justification for morality is circular reasoning
Man died long ago but still teaches you
Excellent
The claim that animals are unable to use language or reason is wrong. Most animals use some kind of komunication thats just diffrent from our human language but fulfills the same purpose.
Also are many animals cabable to use reason. Otherwise it wouldnt be possible to train a dog if he couldnt figure out that obeying orders leads to good thing (reward) figuring case and effect relations out is the foundation of reasoning. If you think otherwise than please define reason.
I don't essentially disagree with you, as I think "reason" and "language" are incomplete concepts in the view of evolutionary biology. They are necessarily different in degree between species. Yet, that doesn't mean that "reason" and "language" as we define them apply to animals. Communication =/= language and rationality =/= reason. It's not that he has to define reason differently, it's that for the purposes of this argument he doesn't really have to define it differently. Thus I agree with your premise but do not accept your conclusion.
Jose Aibrac how is rationality =/= reason? could you please elaborate?
swarochisak
Sure, I meant "rationality does not equal reason", which is to say the use of some measure of rationale (such as determining how best to hunt prey in a new situation) is not the same as using reason in a fully self aware manner.
Jose Aibrac
Than what is reason? How would you define it?
about language - we are able to discuss the past, present and future, something other animals cannot 'komunicate'.
Reason, noun: the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.
as defined by google.
Here is an example of the exercise of reason that is incomprehensible to dogs as well as humans that have had their frontal lobes removed: "cars move fast, and in one direction, that car is facing me, and moving in one direction, if I dont move now, i will get hurt"
this is something most dogs cannot understand or make judgements about
The argon of the plant would be very different if you could ask the plant
Isn't Aristotle's view of moral habituation a little like what the early behaviorists believed? That is, it's not innate character that matters but finding oneself in the right environment. And that right environment is the responsibility of the state/government. Thus Steven Pinker classed such behaviorists as Maoists in that they thought that the state, or institutions, could and should mold character and therefore behavior.
In other words, is this a recipe for totalitarianism (which is often a criticism aimed at Plato's politics rather than Aristotle's)?
i believe that the purpose of life is to have fun and to love as much as you can
fun is not included or pleasure
@@allisRevealed987 stfu U idiot!!! Lol🙉👽💩🔥
One problem. Our use of reason according to theory and so I claim was meant to increase our overall survival. This is seen as evident by our pain and pleasure or our survival motivators being in the driver seat. However this video brings up a good point. Why then do we sometimes disobey our pleasure and pain in accordance with our reason. The answer is we dont. We simply feel pleasure to be right and gain knowledge and use reason that overpowers our already set pleasure and pain. And sometimes it's not enough which is evident in people who eat junk food with the knowledge that it's bad for them.
So because we can use language and reason our purpose of existence to use language and reason. Sounds like circular logic to me...
Facepalm.
That's not what circular logic means.
si, estoy aquí por tarea, lo raro es que es tarea de formación y me manda un video en ingles
Thank You! 🌺
But who are we as humans to define "capabilities"
Ergon argument? I'd never argue with an Ergon. Omega wouldn't like it. (Obscure Doctor Who reference. As you were.).
We are so caught up in the fact that we persevered intelligence in the way we are able to communicate and feel. Sperm whales have displayed their means of communication as being far more advanced than ours. Yet we still decide to slaughter them and use them as food. I even find myself becoming conveluted in my thoughts and theories about our existence. Its crazy to think how simple our drive to persevere , overcome, adapt, learn is. How it's observable throughout the whole animal kingdom, even for the different species that only have nerve knots for brains.
Im going through an existencial crisis and this did nothing for me.
Read nichomachena ethics. He describes what kind of person you should beç This video does not summarize him properly. Reading philosophy is only talked in a few pages of a 300 pages book.
So that's what it means to excel in what humans do
Another broad point of view is that the purpose of life is 'to know, love and worship God, acquire virtues, promote the oneness of mankind, contribute to an ever-advancing civilization and enter into the Presence of God' ~ Baha'i Faith Concepts
I'm searching for people's philosophy and own view about life not quoting others' views.
am I the only one that can't understand this video ? please somebody, explain it to me
Start the video at 7:20. Thank me later.
I solved the question why there's something rather than nothing.
You spelled perceiving wrong. Sorry :(
The tool used for the video - is it available for Linux?
Doesn't seem like it. www.videoscribe.co/?.L-8ELJzxSwCZn3i--3hgsg.0&A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
We are not born for a purpose we are born to find one.
I feel like this is the scientific definition of what our purpose is... but there's got to be more than this... there has to be a deeper reason.
If we were in a desert, and we came across a helicopter and we didn't know what a helicopter was and everyone came up with their own theory on what the helicopter is for the chances of someone getting it right isnt very high right? In order to know how to use the helicopter we should go to the one who made it. Like wise if we want to know our purpose in life, how to life our lifes, what's good and bad for us, what's morally right or wrong, we should ask the one who created us and created the whole world
There are three options either the universe came from nothing which cant happen because 0 plus 0 doesnt give you one therefore nothing plus nothing cant give you something therefore the universe cant come from nothing. The second option is that the universe created itself which requires the universe to exist and not exist at the same time it's like someone giving birth to theirself. The third option is that it is created. If you were in a desert and you came across a helicopter and you didnt know what a helicopter is you would eventually come to the conclusion that the helicopter is designed. What about this universe which is so much more complicated than a helicopter.
The fact that our eyebrows are above our eyes indicate that the creature is the most wise because it protects our eyes from salt in sweat that can damage eyes the fact that our teeth are in our mouth indicate that the creator is the most wise because you need to chew food. So would the most wise create us without a purpose? No and would the most wise create us for a purpose and leave us to figure it out? No.
The creator must of not had a beginning because everything with a beginning has to have a cause so the creator would have had to have a cause if it had a beginning and so would the cause and the cycle would go on forever therefore the only way to break this cycle is if theres a creator with no beginning. I'm a Muslim by the way
correction- Architects don't build houses,they DESIGN. nice video
I think animals are capable of cultivating friendships too, so it mustn’t be the meaning of human being.
through life, we experience good and bad things. At times, we wonder what our purpose in life is. It eats away at us like maggots in a piece of meat, until nothing is left. We are not born with a purpose, we must make a purpose of life for ourselves. In All reality, We as humanity have wondered/pondered about the purpose of life. I believe that purpose is to flourish like plants (Spreading across the universe) like how with a single flower, it spreads to eventually become a meadow. There may be those, who disagree with my statement and I accept any theory you throw at me.
It may seem like I'm old, and wise But Believe it or not.....I'm twenty years old.
Wise my ass you are just another cartoon in this stupid and shitty world
People like you think that Elon Musk is a Genius....lol but in reality he is more worthless then stupid Justin Bieber
HeRes is actually right.
@ 3:21 he writes "percieving"
Tldr; don't be a plant.
Instructions unclear depression worsening, thinking of philosophy making me go manic, but I'm living at the peak right professor? So I should be happy to have these thoughts.
aristotle is dead, he never reached the purpose of life, to become immortal
Anything about Culture and Nature?? i need help fast Ty!
The purpose of life comes down to what you believe. Some people believe what Aristotle taught. Some people believe the purpose of life is in the accomplishments one attains in life, and then there is the belief in God and his purpose for life. Anyway you look at it its all centered around belief and faith in something. Personally I believe that the purpose in life comes from God. He does exist and we are his children. Whether you believe that or not doesn't really matter. Your belief in him doesn't make him go away it just means that you don't believe in someone that exists. We lived with him before we came to earth as his spirit sons and daughters. As his spirit children we had progressed as far as we could and in order to become like him, and in order to continue to progress we needed to gain a physical body. He created this earth for us to come to in order to get a physical body and to be tested to see if we would choose right over wrong of our own free will. He gave us his gospel and commandments that we can choose to follow or not. The purpose of life is to come to earth get a body and see if we will choose what is right. Will we choose to follow him or not? No one will be force back into his presence. You had better want what you choose because that is what you will get. In the end we all will stand in his presence and explain the thoughts, words, and actions and the intents of our actions we made in our life and why we choose not to follow him. Our choice to believe in him doesn't make him God. He will always be God. Our choice to believe in him and follow him is what brings us back to him.
the ultimate-goal or purpose of philosophy 'should' be trying to ascertain what is the best way to achieve human happiness. knowledge simply for the sake of knowledge serves no ultimate purpose. the ultimate-goal of knowledge should be to try and determine what is best for human-beings, in general.
The ultimate goal of knowledge is to further extend itself in a way that satisfies the people acquiring it such that they will extend themselves to learn even more.
Is no one going to comment on the fact that we humans just got 16 gold stars for reproduction?
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Circular reasoning that feeds the appetite of one species. Why a rock or plant cannot already know the depths of existence, but have no appetite for it, means satiety is not a goal, but merely a superfluous enironment.
And if man cannot perform these activities (for example, mental illness that impedes them from doing so)? And then there are varying degrees. Im confused
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