A Tool for the Practice of Philosophy for & as Lifestyle

Hey there my fellow lifestyle digglers! A couple of a weeks ago this cool cat made a post in this community about the practice of Philosophy for & as Lifestyle! The response was overwhelming! I don’t want to brag, but in a way I can’t help but brag! The community totally dugg my post, and there was a significant engagement by members of the community to my post! If I were to drop the numbers on you I know you’d be impressed. So here it is! I received 6 whole diggs! Not five. Not seven. But six! Now that’s a nice even number! And I received 6 comments to my post! Out of the five two were mine. And one was from a dude that promptly deleted his comment within the five minutes he made it. He deleted the comment so quick I did not even have a chance to read his comment on clicking the notification that indicated to me how long ago his comment was made!

Yeah! So, overall, I believe my post was a viral success, and that I received an overwhelming indication that the members of the community are interested in posts about “Philosophy for Lifestyle, and as Lifestyle”, and are also interested in having casual philosophical discourse about Lifestyle. Awesome sauce!

Anyways! I’m a bit bored right now, and open for a little “coffee talk”, and thought to myself: “why not make a post where I answer the most important question: How do we practice it?” Being a cute, cuddly, and adorable diggum I intend on answering that question! I trust you digglers will have your own tool. And that’s cool. But here’s my tool. And you may find it useful. You may use it also if you like.

My intention is “coffee talk” so please feel free to challenge me on my claims & demonstrations about the tool. With all due respect: “fight me!”

That said, let’s begin!

Now, obviously, the practice of philosophy is via reason. One uses one’s reason to become aware, to verify, and to communicate & persuade. But, reason proceeds with an underlying perspective. The awareness of the perspective is what gives one full control of one’s tool, and ability to truly say one possess the tool. So, what I am going to do is outline an underlying perspective for the use of reason. This particular underlying perspective finds precedence in an Avicenna (Ibn Sina). So, technically, this tool is Avicenna, and if you choose to take it & use it it will make you an Avicennan Rationalist.

The underlying perspective are three things:

1. Awareness is either concept, or a concept with a certitude about the veracity of the thing conceived.

2. Only what is necessary, and only what is possible within necessity can exist. If one conceives something. That thing that is conceived necessarily exists in actuality; does not exist in actuality, but may exist in actuality; or can never exist in actuality. And if a thing exists it can only exist within the possibility of what it is.

3. What one conceives a particular thing is, and what the particular thing is: may be the same thing; because via a modal inference one is able to have a sense of proportion, and get at what the thing is in itself that allows one to conceive what one does, and allows the thing in particular to be what it is. Basically, via modal inference about what is conceived one is able to ensure that what is conceived is NOT NOT but what the thing conceived is. Basically, one is able to attain objectivity, and certitude about the veracity of what one conceives via a modal inference.

The aforementioned perspective that underlies one’s use of reason allows one to seek to become aware, to verify, and also the means to actualize concept where one has certitude about the veracity of the matter conceived. And it will be the means that you may bring the other to the intellection of the matter like you find yourself having about the matter.

There’s one last thing I want to add for the use of the tool. It’s one thing to have a sword. One needs a principle that guides one’s wielding of it! This so that one protects oneself from being hurt by the sword’s use, and uses it correctly & how it was intended to be used. The principle presented for such a thing is this: love oneself, and consequently love what is Real with all one’s heart, soul, strength, and self; because one cannot find one’s interest in delusion; and treat the other as one would oneself. There is no better principle (religion/philosophy) to adhere to than that.

Via the aforementioned Tool, and the principle that is to guide one’s wielding of it: do as one desires!

Yeah. So there you have it! A Tool for the Practice of Philosophy for Lifestyle, and as Lifestyle. It a tool that finds precedence in an Avicenna (Ibn Sina).

If you find yourself disagreeing with anything, or believe I am mistaken about anything; Please: “Fight me!”

Also. If any of you dudes, or dudettes are creating a philosophy related community when community creation opens up: let me know in the comments. If you will have me, I’d like to join it!