Talk:List of philosophical questions
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does any one know the real words for those questions? I know that one is Epistemology and another is cosmology and another i anthropology but there should be eight and i just dont remember them all.
.·:M I T C H Y-M I T C H :·.
68.145.41.238 22:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Moving original research to here
[edit] A rough estimate of the popularity
Found by searching Google the 28th of May 2006
| Question | Hits |
|---|---|
| "Why?" | 2 840 000 000 |
| "What is real?" | 1 730 000 |
| "What is life?" | 1 230 000 |
| "What is truth?" | 775 000 |
| "What is the meaning of life?" | 336 000 |
| "What is freedom?" | 303 000 |
| "What is time?" | 224 000 |
| "What is beauty?" | 97 000 |
| "Do we exist?" | 75 000 |
| "What is consciousness?" | 68 300 |
| "What is space?" | 56 400 |
| "What is soul?" (not music) | 30 000 |
| "Do we have free will?" | 22 000 |
| "What is free will?" | 11 100 |
|} If the Universe is always growing, what does it grow into?
[edit] Major re-write
I did a major rewrite.
- I wanted to see a clear introduction to the page's purpose.
- I wanted to organize questions into major areas that would work for most philosophic approaches.
- I wanted to clear out minor or sub-questions to make the focus on the the questions that represent key differences between major philosophies.
- And I moved non-questions to the bottom (in the Quotes area).
Not my intention to be rude or overly bold here - so, I kept all of that portion of the page that I flat-out replaced and will paste it below my signature. Steve 20:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Questions
[edit] Who am I?
[edit] Where do I come from?
[edit] Where am I going?
[edit] What is the meaning of life?
[edit] Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable person could doubt it? -Bertrand Russell, "The Problems of Philosophy", Chapter 1, page 7.
[edit] How do I know I exist?
René Descartes: "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I think, therefore I am"), translated from Descartes' original French statement: "Je pense, donc je suis", which occurs in his Discourse on Method (1637). This statement became a foundational element of Western philosophy.
[edit] But, what if this is all a dream?
For there to be a dream, there must be a dreamer.
[edit] How do I know anything outside of myself actually exists?
[edit] Is there a material existence?
[edit] How is a priori knowledge possible?
[edit] The problem of universals
[edit] How can I know when something is true?
[edit] How did the universe come into existence?
[edit] Did it spontaneously come into being from nothing?
[edit] Was it created?
[edit] What preceded the universe? And what preceded that? And so on...
[edit] If the universe sprang from nothing, how is that possible?
[edit] If the cause-effect chain of events leading up to the existence of the universe is infinite, how is that possible?
[edit] Is the universe deterministic?
[edit] Does God exist?
- Atheist: "No."
- Monotheist: "Yes."
- Polytheist: "Yes, more than one."
- Pantheist: "The universe is God."
- Agnostic: "I don't know, and neither do you."
[edit] Do we have free will?
[edit] Is free will possible in a deterministic universe?
[edit] What is consciousness?
[edit] Is there life after death?
[edit] Do we have a soul?
[edit] What is a soul?
[edit] What personality does a soul have?
If a baby dies and his or her soul goes to heaven, does the soul have the personality of an infant for the rest of eternity?
If a person gets shot in the head but survives, and lives a long but mentally disabled life before he dies, what kind of personality will his soul have in heaven?
