Transcending...
February 19th 2008 13:55
A friend of mine was asking me these days what the hell means "transcend", used in most all philosophy books you find.
Well, the simple translation to commom language would be "to get out of yourself". The first example that comes to my mind is the dice one. Pick up a dice, look at it so that you know where are the numbers on it. Then, place it in front of you. Of course, there are some faces you can't see. But you can guess which numbers are written on each face, since you've looked at it before. This ability to guess the numbers in the faces you can't see is one simple case of transcendence. You're figuring out thing in reality that do not present themselves to your senses.
Explose this capacity to infinity and you would be able to know excatly everything about all things even though they are not in front of you. One of the things our idea of god is able to do. He knows it all...everytime we use our reason, we get closer.
Hope this little phylosophical experiment was usefull. Cheers.
PS: I decided to write this one because the wikipedia entry on transcendence is too confusing. Try it now and you'll understand it better.
PS2: Why do philosophers in general complicate things that can be explained in a simple way? Sometimes it seems they don't want to be understood, just to be considered inteligent...
Well, the simple translation to commom language would be "to get out of yourself". The first example that comes to my mind is the dice one. Pick up a dice, look at it so that you know where are the numbers on it. Then, place it in front of you. Of course, there are some faces you can't see. But you can guess which numbers are written on each face, since you've looked at it before. This ability to guess the numbers in the faces you can't see is one simple case of transcendence. You're figuring out thing in reality that do not present themselves to your senses.
Explose this capacity to infinity and you would be able to know excatly everything about all things even though they are not in front of you. One of the things our idea of god is able to do. He knows it all...everytime we use our reason, we get closer.
Hope this little phylosophical experiment was usefull. Cheers.
PS: I decided to write this one because the wikipedia entry on transcendence is too confusing. Try it now and you'll understand it better.
PS2: Why do philosophers in general complicate things that can be explained in a simple way? Sometimes it seems they don't want to be understood, just to be considered inteligent...
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Comment by Lilla
From The Home Front
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Dream Herald
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I couldn't agree more (about philosophers).
When I am not writing, I am a working tarot card reader ...and I must transcend to give a reading... is there any other way to live?
We are all psychic and can use this exercise to 'get there' and I am glad you have de-=cluttered it, that Wiki explanation gave me a headache!
cheerio.
Lilla ...
Comment by Uula Limanski
Thinking The World
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