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a destro guild sounds good!
What lvls are your destro chars Barbi? how about Eltharion, high population server and heard Order is tough in there, should be fun playing a destro. Lets see what other guildies think and we'll choose a good one.

aye, next time we'll go for all t3 keeps when there are more guildies on. T4 if you guys are 40s soon

Plato regarded philosophy as the greatest good ever imparted by Divinity to man. In the twentieth century, however, it has become a ponderous and complicated structure of arbitrary and irreconcilable notions--yet each substantiated by almost incontestible logic. The lofty theorems of the old Academy which Iamblichus likened to the nectar and ambrosia of the gods have been so adulterated by opinion--which Heraclitus declared to be falling sickness of the mind--that the heavenly mead would now be quite unrecognizable to this great Neo-Platonist. Convincing evidence of the increasing superficiality of modern scientific and philosophic thought is its persistent drift towards materialism. When the great astronomer Laplace was asked by Napoleon why he had not mentioned God in his Traité de la Mécanique Céleste, the mathematician naively replied: "Sire, I had no need for that hyphotesis!"
In his treatise on Atheism, Sir Francis Bacon tersely summarizes the situation thus: "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." The Metaphysics of Aristotle opens with these words: "All men naturally desire to know." To satisfy this common urge the unfolding human intellect has explored the extremities of imaginable space without and the extremities of imaginable self within, seeking to estimate the relationship between the one and the all; the effect and the cause; Nature and the groundwork of Nature; the mind and the source of the mind; the spirit and the substance of the spirit; the illusion and the reality
An ancient philosopher once said: "He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone is a man among brutes. But he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy, is a God among men." Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking. He whose mind is enslaved to his bestial instincts is philosophically not superior to the brute; he whose rational faculties ponder human affairs is a man; and he whose intellect is elevated to the consideration of divine realities is already a demigod, for his being partakes of the luminosity with which his reason has brought him into proximity. In his encomium of "the science of sciences" Cicero is led to exclaim: "O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life."

In this age the word philosophy has little meaning unless accompanied by some other qualifying term. The body of philosophy has been broken up into numerous isms more or less antagonistic, which have become so concerned with the effort to disprove each other's fallacies that the sublimer issues of divine order and human destiny have suffered deplorable neglect. The ideal function of philosophy is to serve as the stabilizing influence in human thought. By virtue of its intrinsic nature it should prevent man from ever establishing unreasonable codes of life. Philosophers themselves, however, have frustrated the ends of philosophy by exceeding in their woolgathering those untrained minds whom they are supposed to lead in the straight and narrow path of rational thinking. To list and classify any but the more important of the now recognized schools of the philosophy is beyond the space limitations of this volume (751 pages). The vast area of speculation covered by philosophy will be appreciated best after a brief consideration of a few of the outstanding systems of philosophic discipline which have swayed the world of thought during the last twenty-six centuries.

---The list of isms since the ancient Greek times till present day goes on.---
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"Philosophy," writes Sir William Hamilton, "had been defined [as]: The science of things divine and human, and of the cause in which they are contained [Cicero]; The science of effects by their causes [Hobbes]; The science of suffcient reasons [Leibnitz]; The science of things possible, inasmuch as they are possible [Wolf]; The science of things evidently deduced from first principles [Descartes]; The science of truths, sensible and abstract [de Condillac]; The application of reason to its legitimate objects [Tennemann]; The science of the relations of all knowledge to the necessary ends of human reason [Kant]; The science of the original form of the ego or mental self [Krug]; The science of sciences [Fichte]; The science of the absolute [von Schelling]; The science of the absolute indifference of the ideal and real [von Schelling]--or, The identity of identity and non-identity [Hegel]." (See Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic.)
The six heading under which the disciplines of philosophy are commonly classified are: metaphysics, which deals with such abstract subjects as cosmology, theology, and the nature of being; logic, which deals with the laws governing rational thinking, or, as it has been called, "the doctrine of fallacies"; ethics, which is the science of morality, individual responsibility, and character--concerned chiefly with an effort to determine the nature of good; psychology, which is devoted to investigation and classification of those forms of phenomena referable to mental origin; epistemology, which is the science concerned primary with the nature of knowledge itself and the questions of whether it may exist in an absolute form; and asthetics, which is the science of the nature of and the reactions awakened by the beautiful, the harmonious, the elegant and the noble.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Manly P. Hall


Philosophy the science of sciences, a must, the basics understandings to higher degrees of wisdom, the reasoning that differences the man with the brute, the inevitable intelligence that connects us to Heaven and God.

Feel free to discuss.

Show them academic skill. The Devastator set drop in t3 keeps. Npcs are lvl30s. We'll see how things goes and lets take them all!

event ended

Gj everyone!

Fun dungeon with good rewards. Location: North-West of Badlands (Dwarf map). Lets kill them all!

Event ended

No need to wait for lvl40 to join Order of Sun, the alts guild was made for our alts and for ppl under lvl20. You can join any alts to that guild, play them not actively and at the same time 'be' in The Academy with the alliance chat.

You can ask anyone in Order of Sun from the alliance chat, everyone can inv in the alts guild

welcome to the forums

good idea lets add a questions and answers section

Guild vault is free for all to leave and take. For starters it's located in Altdorf (check green emblem on map). Lvl 1-19 have access to vault 1, lvl 20-40 access to vault 2.

Respect, no drama, hf.

Again everyone can use the events calendar, a good way to gather guildies of your lvl for keep raids, dungeons and pqs. The bug is not fixed yet, my suggestion is use it to post events within 24h, after that time new posts will delete all previous ones.

we understand your decision Nat, rl comes first and uni exams are important, do your best in there you dont have to perma quit the game, come back when you have time, you are always welcome to The Academy.
i partially understand the motives of that decision, with the vault ninja issue followed by some over-confident individuals questioning the Gms power , we're in a transition, things can only go better

thx Nat. with your help and the others we'll make a good forum.
best wishes to you!

We can have an Academic section.. East wing, West wing, officers hall, library (id like to post some philosophy stuff here for those who want to read it, discuss and learn were The Academy after all ) other mmorpgs..etc.
i believe things will keep rolling as more guildies gets here

Hi Nat, been busy recently so couldnt check here. Good forum, like the theme.

Wanted to tell u we will have a domain and host when the second web is finished (i think he'll be done in 1 week or so), so u can host this web and forum there.
We'll use one forum, lets see how things goes