POSE YOUR OWN PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS

YOU ASK THE QUESTIONS that are evoked in your philosophical journey and I will Post a new one each week, citing the inquirer.

THOUGHT-EMOTE

CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING AND TELL US WHAT YOU THINK?

Do we think, judge, evaluate first before we assign an emotion to an experience? We may do this so fast that we don’t know we are thinking, judging. Do not all experiences involve some consideration before they can be affiliate with a representative emotion? Can you think of experiences that do, in fact, have to think about somewhat before the emotion is daubed upon its canvas? Can you think of an emotional experience for which you can give no reasoning to its emotional evocation? Can you name emotions that truly represent variations in the spectrum of feeling and can you then align them in a spectrum as we have done in previous Blog of Inquiries.

© Copyright 2007 Christopher Parker

The Spectrum of Thinking

TRY TO COMMENT ON THIS NOTION: What if we were to suppose that all the kinds of thinking that we do are actually one thinking in different degrees. Perhaps all the thinking(s) that we do are like the subtle color spectrum in white light, that a prism can separate. We can name the colors, even number them. Can we arrange all thinking into a spectrum assuming that it comes out of white light (or a white noise) of thought?

Might I suggest that readers: 1.) select words from the previous blog comments or choose your own thought-words that seem to name thinking types and 2.) arrange them in a spectrum in which one overlaps, boarders, feeds into or intertwingles* another.

In the end, it may be that all our thoughts may not only be in a linear design but be more circular or web-like. But let us start out with the linear spectrum until we have defined thinking this way.

*intertwingles is my word that combines intertwined and intermingled which may be appropriate for the spectrum of thought.

Copyright 2007 by Christopher Parker

The Poetry of Reason

Here is the first day of this blog on the poetry of reason. We will explore philosophy, language and ideas mostly as they relates to educators and ways to develop philosophical thinking with children and young adults.

Here is my first question for my blog readers:

What are the kinds of thought, by name? Would they include Reasoning, Faith, Myth, Fantasy, Science, Wish, Hope, Prayer, Logic?