Philosophy
According to my Metaphysical Profile, I would be considered a materialist. I believe in concrete items that can be touched and seen. The chair I sit on is at the top of the list because it is solid and can be felt underneath me. Love is also something that I believe in. It can’t be touched, but it is an emotion that cannot be denied. An episode of “reality TV” is last because even though the people are real, the cameras make them act differently from who they really are. Their real self is not always portrayed on television. This is what the truth was to me before the readings and discussions of the past weeks’. A few thinkers have challenged my beliefs, and made me see a different light. Borges believed in both the understanding of ideas and objects through the imagination. He was a Metaphysical Relativist, which means “reality exists in the eye of the beholder.” Borges looked at the story of Tlon, and contrasted idealism with materialism. The Tlonians did not use nouns in their language because they didn’t believe in objects. An object had to be an idea before anything else. If a Tlonian were to look at my profile, they would tell me the chair was an idea in my head and not an actual thing. “Their language and th
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Metaphysical Hierarchy, Metaphysical Profile, Lao Zi, Metaphysical Relativist, Parmenides Zeno, Reality Heraclitus, Principle Relativity, Brahman Atman, Ultimate Reality, parmenides zeno, ultimate reality, metaphysical profile, ones logos,
Approximate Word count = 823
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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