What kind of king?

[GodSchism]

Every living man is a philosopher. We are all searching for something, usually truth. However, we are all searching for something but mostly happiness. In truth there is happiness. We just fail to accept the truth as leading to happiness because we discover that our desires cannot always be fullfilled with truth. But one cannot desire what he has not yet perceived. The definition of philosophy is the search for truth. Jesus said I am the truth; and then in parable he gave philosophical stones to ponder because in seeing we do not see and in hearing we do not hear. Parable is nothing more than a philosophical lesson derived from a poetic tale. Jesus was a philosopher king.

Creatures of habit, I have no respect for your kind.
Choking the life from you with my bare hands.

 

[Eudaimonist]

But one cannot desire what he has not yet perceived.

Of course one can. One often desires when one experiences a lack. However, one's imagined remedy to that lack does not have to exist. In The Neverending Story, a child gets a special thrill when he rides on a fluffy dragon and scares the bullies who were picking on him. A child might desire this, but that doesn't mean he has seen fluffy dragons, or that they exist.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[ArnautDaniel]

Every living man is a philosopher. We are all searching for something, usually truth. However, we are all searching for something but mostly happiness. In truth there is happiness. We just fail to accept the truth as leading to happiness because we discover that our desires cannot always be fullfilled with truth. But one cannot desire what he has not yet perceived. The definition of philosophy is the search for truth. Jesus said I am the truth; and then in parable he gave philosophical stones to ponder because in seeing we do not see and in hearing we do not hear. Parable is nothing more than a philosophical lesson derived from a poetic tale. Jesus was a philosopher king.

Creatures of habit, I have no respect for your kind.
Choking the life from you with my bare hands.

I think to say philosophy is simply the "search for truth" isn't right.

Ultimately what we are searching for (if we are honest and can look the medusa in the eye) is truth about ourselves.

There is certainly a truth about the distance from the earth to the sun, but it isn't terribly illuminating.

One of the great errors in popular Christianity is that by taking the statement "I am the truth" as they do, Christians find themselves looking for truths outside and apart from themselves. That is they find truths much as answers to some sort of hypothetical exam.