learning the poetry basics ?

answers1: poetry comes from the heart. reading a book on how to write
a poem will probably cramp your style. just keep it original.
answers2: complex situation. query on google. that may help!
answers3: You could probably just google or wikipedia the types of
poetry like haiku or sonnets, but style is the way it's written by the
poet. <br>
Think of it more like a song because poems are better explained to the
reader when read out loud. In poems, there's also a rhythm, but if the
words don't work, the rhythm is thrown off. Poetry is a flow of words
that is rooted from emotions.

Poetry website???

answers1: Poetry.com
answers2: hard stuff. do a search with bing and yahoo. it will help!
answers3: poetry.com is a good website, but make sure you give credit
or it's plagiarism.
answers4: www.poetry.com <br>
www.lovequotesandpoems.com <br>
hey i wrote a war poem that was published maybe i can help- it's on
www.poetry.com <br>
when you go to it <br>
and look for an author <br>
type in amber alaniz <br>
<br>
hope you like it
answers5: Check out Voltage Poetry! It's a really neat blog that posts
kickass poems with epic turns, or points where everything in the poem
shifts and becomes something different. They also post accompanying
essays that discuss why the turns are so effective. It's really
helpful for analyzing poems and also exposed me to some awesome poetry
that's definitely worth a read. <br>
http://voltagepoetry.com/ <br>
<br>
Structure and Surprise is another great blog that posts articles and
essays discussing and analyzing poetry, especially what makes poems
surprising and exciting. <br>
http://structureandsurprise.wordpress.com/
answers6: g o o g l e DOT com
answers7: poems ,com
answers8: why do you ask a question like that and lose 5 pointsn while
you can search for it from google...
answers9: Look at The Verse Marauder
answers10: barkingspiderspoetry.com <br>
poetry4kids.com

easy to read book for philosophy essay?

answers1: Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
answers2: Buddha's Golden Path is simple and a great philosophy.
There are tons of resources on the subject and you will need to narrow
the topic a bit. Good luck!

questions about philosophy?

answers1: Actions like getting up out of bed, taking a shower and
getting dressed for work, eating breakfast, driving to work do not
require any philosophy at all to do those things. Talking with
friends at work or interacting about work to get our jobs done doesn't
either. Paying bills and any family obligations same thing. In
general things we are obligated to do for our survival do not engage
any kind of philosophical debate or discussion in them at all. I
could substitute work for school and get the same kind of answer. <br>
<br>
To my mind a philosophy can be just an idea or ideas that a person
like a leader is governed by to rule his country. When one who is an
opponent or an ally understands the primary motive of the leader in
that sense he can understand in what direction and destination he is
taking this country to. <br>
<br>
A leader can be driven by ideas that show man as a part of the natural
world and therefore subject to the same behaviors of the world and
therefore needs to be controlled as such by a ruling body. That there
is no connection to the past and that any vestige or leadership of the
past must give way to the new authority of today. And that all future
political and other social interaction must be a collective venture
and individual freedom is denied and even disdained. <br>
<br>
Or a leader can be guided by a spiritual view of man where individual
worth and responsibility are promoted from the leader on down to the
people. With the clearest understanding that all is connected in
history in the past, present, and future so that that awareness is
promoted and taught and passed as the present and future hope for the
country's survival. <br>
<br>
Well that's my thought. Take care. This is a good question.
answers2: 1 Going to the toilet <br>
2 Sure. Especially the philosophy of how power corrupts and is abused.
I live in a society where the value of the society itself is higher
than the value of the rights of the individual, and I don't like this.
answers3: Wherever there is logic, there is philosophy. In belief
system, there is no logic and therefore no philosophy.
answers4: 1. Philosophy can be applied to anything in life, any action
you take, any thought or beliefs you hold, Philosophy can be generally
applied. <br>
<br>
2. Philosophy can indeed reflect the present situation of our country,
Sociological Thinking in a sense would be best used to describe the
act of looking at a nation from a Philosophical viewpoint. From our
insight on the laws, morays, norms, and factors of a society we are
philosophically trying to understand society and the country we live
in.
answers5: 1) No. <br>
2) We have come to worship the media, and accept their presentations
rather than doing our own thinking.

What is the most fundamental definition of Philosophy?

answers1: The purpose of philosophy, as science, is to organize the
chaos of the world, by consciously putting ideas of the universe into
simplistic rational structures. To do this is to take away the
confusion, lesson the awe, but keep the wonder, and it is to educate
mental repose, and create more accountable human beings. The love of
truth, which is philosophy is the attempt to evolve the rational mind.
answers2: the search for proof of gods existance
answers3: Any question that can start a debate...
answers4: The study of when and why things happen. Thats the most
basic it can be broken down to. Its all about opinions and those who
can accept the widest and considered to be the wisest.
answers5: Translating from the Greek word for it, the definition is
"love of wisdom"
answers6: Love of wisdom <br>
Philos = love <br>
Sophy = Wisdom. <br>
<br>
It is what it means. <br>
Can't get more fundamental than that!
answers7: Philosophy is thinking about something.
answers8: philosophy is the systematic study of all things/beings in
their ultimate causes/principles by the use of human reason alone...
<br>
in layman's term love of wisdom... ü

What branch of philosophy are you intrested in?

answers1: My own Philosophy..and the Philosophy of The Greek wisemen.. <br>
I can enjoy a wide view, except too much politics and very skeptical
intriguing idea.. <br>
that permits too much doubts/ or otherwise as well whereas topics
aren't alllowed to grow..for it seemed to be all concluded with much
confidence. <br>
I love the objective and subjective part as well..Moral philosophy is
also great. <br>
<br>
Love the philosophy of the mind, somewhat analytical. Aristotle is one
of the great contributor of this. <br>
<br>
I love Epistemology, Logic, and Aesthetics.. <br>
Rationalism is also very interesting.. <br>
<br>
Good day dear!!
answers2: Although as of yet, I'm not an expert on any area of
philosophy, th area of philosophy that seems the most interesting to
me at face value is that of Economic Philosophy. Adam Smith, Karl
Marx, John Maynard Keynes, amongst the like, have really captivated my
attention. On the other end of the scale, I'm not so fond of
philosophies pertaining to the nature of God. It always almost ends up
in a mere conundrum.
answers3: Logic is my fav!
answers4: My interests lie in neurophilosophy/extended mind thesis and
phenomenal consciousness
answers5: Honestly all of them. I think that religion and philosophy
greatly overlap. <br>
<br>
If you do not mind I have an open question that may or may not strike
your interest. Here is the question and the link if you care to take
a look: I am as of now planning on repeating the question
substituting Christianity and others, my own religion included, but
perhaps only one a week. Not sure yet. <br>
<br>
Is Atheism nothing more than a Potemkin village? <br>
<br>
<a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100303190858AAGQQAd&r=w"class=Clr-b>http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...</a>
answers6: Anything deals with human love.
answers7: I'll assume moral includes spiritual right? Spiritual
philosophies can bring you to a wide range of perspectives especially
with those whom have years of first hand experiences to share, if they
will. There is a huge untapped source for you, but you need to have an
open mind and a wide range of interests and experiences in order to
appreciate it's depth for yourself.
answers8: Philosophy of language, Ancient Philosophy and Philosophical
Method. Right now I'm writing a paper on a Wittgenstein-inspired
critique of Plato's method of Collection and Division for a class of
mine, and it's like the perfect combination of my main interests. It's
a lot of fun :D
answers9: Myffleophocy.

Which branch of philosophy should have priority over others?

answers1: Social and political philosophy do not exist in a vacuum -
they are largely made up of ethics. Socrates seemed to put first
priority to ethics, and many attributed aesthetics and even
epistemology to a certain extent to ethics. We don't exist as monads
(no matter what Leibniz might think) and thus we interact; how we
interact is largely an ethical construct, but as we interact in groups
which form societies and cultures and polities, this would then seem
to dictate that this will become the more important element in
determining how and why we might then work on other areas of
philosophy, from a practical standpoint.
answers2: I doubt I have the ultimate answer, but I seem them as less
developed, and to me I see more potential for breakthroughs and
advancement, since they need more of it. We seem to have more problems
in those areas, but I see the biggest problem from not a broad enough
background in everything, including language. Interdisciplinary
studies never took off like I think it should have. I think we need
great depth in one area and a real broad background in every area to
make much progress in any particular one. <br>
It's because we haven't developed the area of the brain that handles
complexity and complexity is what we are having the most problem with.
That is to say, we are not using, well, that part of the brain, the
part we need for all we have to handle today. Intuition is the
connection with that part or ability to handle complexity that we so
need. I think in philosophy they call it empirical intuition or
philosophical intuition. Maybe this will give you a hint on
intuition's importance. <br>
<a href="http://intuition.viviti.com"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://intuition.viviti.com</a> <br>
In other words, the areas of political and social philosophy are huge
needs right now, especially in getting advances and good ideas out to
the public, but, if people don't learn how to use their minds,
specialization is only part of the answer. None of the disciplines can
be left out, even while studying just one. It can be done, if we learn
to use intuition to handle all that. Does that make any sense to you?
<br>
I mean the question is a bit flawed so the answer to it will be flawed
and not the proper question. Why not attack the question? That seems
as realistic as accepting it at face value. At least that would lead
to some creative thinking for sure, unless you have an ignorant
teacher, which seems all too likely. Blow their mind. Why not? At
least you'll get their blood boiling and they'll have to acknowledge
that you have some points they hadn't thought of. If you make them
think, they have to have some appreciation of that. Maybe run it past
them to see if they are at all open minded.
answers3: Neither social or political philosophy can actually have
priority over epistemology, since they are both founded upon
epistemological notions. <br>
<br>
When we try to subvert any sort of aesthetic, 'meaning', logic, or
ethic under political or social terms, that's ideology, not
philosophy. Ideology is usually defined as the promotion of a
particular worldview based on one's philosophic beliefs. Since
political philosophy, for instance, is entirely founded around what we
believe about human nature, you'll get into a tautological argument if
you try to assert philosophic ideas based on those same philosophic
ideas; if your political philosophy is based around the conception
human nature is inherently evil, then an attempt to build another
philosophy off of that political philosophy will always conclude that
yes, human nature is evil. You'll just go in circles. <br>
<br>
I think that you could make an argument that there's a practicality to
social and political philosophy, since they are subjects of
immediacy--- there's a moral imperative to solve immediate political
and social issues before resolving big abstract ones. A debate over
what political system should be adopted by a collapsing state is a
much more pressing issue than what the meaning of beauty is, since
lives are at stake in the former case. However, such an argument is
still reliant on ethics. <br>
<br>
The only other case I can think of off hand is one which is a bit
weak, but may work. Since politics and society determine the access
and availability to other areas of philosophy (some societies oppose
certain ideas), it follows that without certain political and social
philosophies, other ideas could be wholly lost --- which means the
interpretation of the subject, but not the subject itself, could be
lost. Of course, this too may be somewhat subject to our
epistemological conceits about what is worth knowing. <br>
<br>
As it stands, I'm unaware of any solid, convincing argument of the
sort you're looking for --- it seems kind of like asking for a
prioritization of the novel over the alphabet. But philosophy can
often make obvious the things that people have overlooked for a long
time, and shift about all our concepts --- so good luck with your
work. If you can get around the basic tautology of the proposition,
and avoid ideology, then you'll definitely be on to something
interesting. <br>
<br>
<br>
Hope that helps.
answers4: Ehtics is prioroty over all other branches. Social and
political philosophy must be studied with ethical basis.
answers5: I believe no branch of philosophy should have a priority
against others. For instance, if a metaphysical doctrine has unsound
ethical implications, one may abandon it (this happened with moral
objections to David Lewis modal realism). If an ethical theory has
unsound metaphysical implications it might also be abandoned.
answers6: They don't. Social and political philosophy are merely
branches on an equal footing with other branches of philosophy. If
anything, epistemology, historically, has had priority over the other
branches. I'm not saying this is justified but most trained
philosophers would agree that it has dominated other issues in
philosophy
answers7: You have some decent answers, but there is no absolute
answer. While ideas from others are helpful, you should put your paper
in the conext of your own beliefs and establish your own logical or
rational (or even irrational) priority. Absolutely everything you have
an opinion about is a philosophy of one sort or another. Some opinions
are based on little thought, and others are based on deep
contemplation. Some are trivial (like, is soccer better than tennis?)
and some are important (how do you view lying?). So list your most
important issues (truth, justice, morality, god, war, love, abortion,
responibility, or whatever) and look at each from the viewpoint of the
major philosophical disciplines. It isn't too hard to priortize in
this fashion. This takes work, of course, but it will help establish
in your own mind who you are and why you are you. There's no right or
wrong priority, only the one that works best for you.