Aries D. Marzo CS – 1202

15 – 33161 Hum 102

1. What is the Theory of Reality?

A common colloquial usage would have reality mean "perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes toward reality,"

as in "My reality is not your reality." This is often used just as a colloquialism indicating that the parties

to a conversation agree, or should agree, not to quibble over deeply different conceptions of what is

real. For example, in a religious discussion between friends, one might say (attempting humor), "You

might disagree, but in my reality, everyone goes to heaven."

Reality can be defined in a way that links it to world views or parts of them (conceptual frameworks):

Reality is the totality of all things, structures (actual and conceptual), events (past and present) and

phenomena, whether observable or not. It is what a world view (whether it be based on individual or

shared human experience) ultimately attempts to describe or map.

Certain ideas from physics, philosophy, sociology, literary criticism, and other fields shape various

theories of reality. One such belief is that there simply and literally is no reality beyond the perceptions

or beliefs we each have about reality. Such attitudes are summarized in the popular statement,

"Perception is reality" or "Life is how you perceive reality" or "reality is what you can get away with"

(Robert Anton Wilson), and they indicate anti-realism – that is, the view that there is no objective

reality, whether acknowledged explicitly or not.

2. What is Being?

Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing objective and subjective features of reality and existence. Anything that partakes in being is also called a "being", though often this use is limited to entities that have subjectivity (as in the expression "human being"). So broad a notion has inevitably been elusive and controversial in the history of philosophy, beginning in western philosophy with attempts among the pre-Socratics to deploy it intelligibly.

3. What are the characteristics and kinds of being?

Actual, Existing in reality and not potential, possible, simulated, or falseWhatever exists now is an actual being.Potential Capable of being but not yet in existence; latent or undeveloped Grammar of, relating to, or being a verbal construction with auxiliaries such as may or can

4. What is inquiry, insight and philosophizing?

Inquiry is to gain insight into questions about knowledge, truth, reason, reality, meaning, mind and value. Other human endeavours, not least art and literature, explore aspects of these same questions, but it is philosophy that mounts a direct assault on them, in the hope of clarifying them and, where possible, answering them.

Insight is the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing. Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect in a specific context.

Philosophizing is the practice of talking or thinking about important subjects imprecisely or boringly, sometimes instead of doing something practical and the practice of explaining philosophically

5. What is yoga as spiritual meditation? Explain.

Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice or discipline which originated in India. There is a broad

variety of schools, practices and goals[2] in Hinduism, Buddhism (particularly Vajrayana Buddhism)

and Jainism. The best-known are Hatha yoga and Raja.

The origins of yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions, but most likely

developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in ancient India's ascetic and śramaṇa movements

6. What is humanity according to Confucius?

Confucius said that humanity, or “Ren”, is a “love of people” stating “if you want to make a stand, help

others make a stand.” That is, the Confucian theory of humanity exemplifies the golden rule. It is so

central to Confucian thought that it appears 58 times in the Analects. Similar to the Christian process of

seeking God, Confucius teaches seeking Ren to a point of seemingly divine mastery until you are equal

to, or better than, your teacher. The Confucian concept of Ren encompasses both love and altruism.