User:Appletonclack

"What may I have in my user pages?" "There is no fixed use for user pages, except that usually one's user page has something about oneself, ...." ~"Personal writings suitable within the Wikipedia community [include] Non-article Wikipedia material such as ... perspectives, personal philosophy, ..." -- copied from the rules of WP.

As to philosophy: I have recognized 4 areas of philosophy: 1) metaphysics (what is real?), 2) epistemology (how does one know?), 3) axiology (what is valuable?), 4) the philosophies (what are the philosophical viewpoints?). As to 4), some may abandon determining the first three areas and just consider what various philosophers have said and classify them. This latter approach is likely to be attached to skepticism on ever answering the first 3 questions.

About myself: My interests, perspective, and personal philosophy consider certain founding documents of USA as important, as for example, the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris (1783), and the Constitution of the USA. I find it interesting to critically examine those founding documents. My personal perspective and philosophy agrees with the USA Constitution as well as the Treaty of Paris (1783) in the fact that they both end with "in the year of our Lord", which recognizes that Jesus Christ is Lord. I did some Googling to find that "in the year of our Lord" was apparently not a perfunctory formula in use at the time. Also it is notable that the Treaty of Paris 1783 starts out recognizing the Triune God. This document is a founding document as it is the Treaty whereby the UK agreed to the independence of the united states in North America. This Treaty sets forth as follows:

The Definitive Treaty of Peace 1783

In the Name of the most Holy & undivided Trinity.

It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the Hearts of the most Serene and most Potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, King ....

One of my interests is the question of how much theocracy (vs. French Enlightenment) was included in the founding of the USA.