My Suffering In Philosophy

As discussed in class, philosophy is about engaging yourself in conversation to the extent of thinking what other people are saying with virtues in mind. It is interesting to figure out how one comes to an opinion or thought and where the evidence comes

If we take a glance at the world we live in today, we can recognize that people are different from one another in physical and psychological ways. Since this is the case, people possess the ability to develop different ideas even if they deal with the same topic. This can be seen through the one thing that everyone in this world holds in common, which is that we are all living beings that will eventual experience death. Even though we all share the same characteristics of being alive and will eventually face death, there are many different ideas of what will happen to someone after death. The movie “Unmistaken Child”, demonstrates one idea of what the Tibetan Buddhist Monks believes happens to someone after death.

There are countless beliefs concerning this issue, depending on the faith one subscribes to as well as personal views. According to Hispanic culture, a person undergoes three separate deaths: the first is when the physical body ceases to function, the second when the physical body is lowered into the ground, and the third occurs when there is no person left behind to remember the deceased. Spirits between the second and third deaths of this belief reside in the land of Mictlan, ruled over by Mictecacuhuatl, the goddess of death. Dwellers of Mictlan linger there until the Day of the Dead each year, when it is believed they can come back to the mortal realm for a day to be with their relatives once more. This set of beliefs does not exactly resemble my own position on death, but there are similarities. Specifically, I do believe in an afterlife in which the departed inhabit, but I also believe that they are free to visit the earth whenever they like to, and that they are not limited by a specific day of the year. In addition, I believe that an individual only endures one death, and that is the death of the body. From there, the spirit goes directly to the afterlife, and remains there eternally. Furthermore, while the Hispanic culture does not define a place for the virtuous to go and a place for the wicked, I have my own belief in a heaven and a hell, meant to incentivize the living of a life of making the world better for having had you in it while you lived. At least, these are the ideas that I have been raised with as I’ve

Having discussed what philosophy is, we now consider why it is important to study philosophy. We will divide our discussion into 2 parts: (1) Why is it important for all persons in general and (2) Why is it specifically important for Christians to study philosophy? We begin, in true philosophic fashion, by examining the question itself: what we do mean by philosophy being important and we introduce the idea of the philosophic mindset. We then examine 5 reasons why it is important for all persons to adopt the philosophic mindset. We will end by providing an overview of the different branches of philosophy.

According to Webster Dictionary, Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline. How is that someone can even study reality or existence, doesn’t that just make it opinion or perception. Understanding a point being made by a philosopher is taking a trip through their brain, which sometimes can be scary and other times be fascinating. Making sense of their nonsense sense is tricky; identifying their argument, even trickier. Avital Ronell said it best in Examined Life, “Philosophy is like a parallel universe or a rival team that also comes up with all of this prescribed bullshit; it’s very will to power.” (Taylor)

In closing, this back of my point I talked about in the top of my paper. Suffering can happen in two ways self-inflicted or cause by someone else, or somethings. Whatever the case is we cannot get around it or do anything about it. It is a part of life like evil and

The term “philosophy” means the love of wisdom, and those that study philosophy attempt to gain knowledge through rationality and reason. 1 Socrates, the father of ancient philosophy, once stated “the unexamined life is not worth living”. This is the most important part of life and it is need to find purpose and value in life. If a person chooses to live their life without examination, their life would lack value and they would be unhappy. They would also be ignorant to the effects of their choices on themselves and the people around them.

What philosophy is used for and how does philosophy benefit our society now a days

Philosophy, like all other studies, aims primarily at knowledge. The knowledge it aims at is the kind of knowledge which gives unity and system to the body of the science,

Philosophy, by meaning is love of wisdom. In a comprehensive sense, philosophy is an activity people assume when

In “The Value of Philosophy”, Bertrand Russell— “an important social critic and one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century”—refutes the idea of philosophy being pointless and a waste of time (The Value of Philosophy). Although philosophers have not agreed on one exact definition for this branch of knowledge, philosophy is generally understood as an “academic discipline” which aims to cover a variety of topics through arguing, inquiring, assuming, and “testing arguments for weakness” in order to gain knowledge and grasp a better sense of life (Lectures 1-2, Package). Russell makes strong arguments for philosophy being beneficial, especially when one is open to seeking a deeper understanding of life and why the universe operates the way that it does. Despite philosophy’s inability to definitively answer the questions that it seeks to understand, in Russell’s opinion, it holds a great amount of value—one of those values being uncertainty.

When we think about philosophy we start out believing that is a complicated process left to the teachers and thinkers of the world that are best at processing it all. What we fail to realize is that it is philosophy who shapes the

Philosophy seemed to be the center of the majority of peoples lives Before the Common Era, yet today it also upholds just as much, if not more, importance to the normal person than of the ‘scientist’ or renowned ‘theorist.’ Philosophy makes people who they are, their own

This essay is reflection about my understanding from what I have learned during this class about what philosophy is. Philosophy is a broad topic and can be hard to understand. What we learn is class about philosophy defiantly makes me think and makes my brain turn all the time, but so far, my understanding is that philosophy is the study of knowledge. It breaks down what everything is. Examples used in class are chariness, deskness, and the main one sued in class “cupness”.

Philosophy is the study of the general and fundamental nature of reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language. The main purpose of the philosophy is to reflect events intellectually rather than reacting to them emotionally. It is a general approach to a task or opinion on an issue. There are plenty of philosophers who have tried to generalize the broad sense of the philosophy in their own distinctive way. They have solved the philosophical problems and told the world that the philosophical problems or the disputes are not caused by the lack of factual information but they are caused by the difference of the meaning, value or interpretation about the certain things. And they have shown and written many evidences to support their evidences.