Philosophy: The Purpose Of Philosophy And Philosophy

Philosophy is a very important part of people’s lives. Philosophy is quite basically asking inquiries about existence, reality and nature of knowledge. To better understand philosophy we must look throughout history. Looking back through history helps better show what the philosophers thought during the time period in which they lived. The relativity of the theories, to the time period, is a very important factor in how efficient these theories they were. The first philosopher’s ideas to people today would be considered either very basic, or insane. Yet, in the time period they lived in, they were considered to be geniuses. Also, looking back through time and studying philosophers and what they believed can help create a better idea for

Physics has intruded on philosophy. Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then "natural philosophy" became physics. (krauss, Lawrence)Philosophers are stuck with a classical view of the world and have not kept up with modern physics. Corresponding to the classical view, objects continue at one place at one time and every object has a bold history. But that is not true, at least on the atomic level. Quantum mechanics says that subatomic act in ways that, according to the classical view, are impossible, coming in and out of presence as we detect them. Philosophy dependes on rational and logical thinking whereas science goes through trial and

I believe that this has strong merit – my presentation for Theory of Knowledge was focused around this concept, as an explanation for why advanced mathematics classes were taught in schools. There were elements of classism and elitism in that discussion, the idea of only a small group of people having access to things such as algebra, but there is also the point that there is value in just knowing. How far is it to the nearest star? How old is the universe? These are scientific questions that don’t have immediate purpose. Some scientists cure Alzheimer’s, others figure out how to create fuel, and a few talk about whether or not matter is actually made up of little tiny strings that vibrate. A lot of the natural sciences have immediate applications, but theoretical physics has none of this, and yet the US Department of Energy spent 67 million dollars on it in 2012 (Woit). There is value in knowing due to the inherent fact that there is knowledge, and there are values in questions just because they are answered. If you want to know what your great-great-great-great-grandmother’s middle name was, you can find these answers, and while the knowledge isn’t applicable, it is still important. My own middle name has little to no applicability, and yet I wouldn’t give it up for a thousand

The essay "The Value of Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell suggests that many “practical” people view philosophy as rather useless, because these people are – according to Bertrand Russell – operating both with wrong conceptions about the ends of life and wrong conceptions about what goods philosophy strives to achieve. According to Russell the value of philosophy is in what it does for the person who studies it. He makes the point that goods of the mind are as important in life as goods of the body. He says that the main value of philosophy is that it enlarges one’s thoughts, brings one into union with the “not-Self”, and helps us avoid being caught in narrowness as human beings. His main ideas are that philosophy is to be studied to enrich our intellects, diminish our dogmatism, and make us citizens of the universe.

The main goal in philosophy is to shows us the right way on how to live a great life and to understand its meaning and purpose. Every philosopher has their own blueprint, which includes different methods and rules on how to reach that goal; these include backing up your opinions with reason, seeking secure foundations in ‘objective truth’, thinking outside of your own perspective, and seeking intellectual and moral excellence, wisdom and prudence. Philosophy will help you analyze and learn about your own knowledge, freedom, morality, religion, and the meaning of life.

Evaluation is a feedback or an improvement process made to improve customer service. Evaluation becomes less of a formal event. Result orientated HRD professionals realize that their importance to the organization is their ability to help the organization achieve its anticipated business outcomes. So, HRD professionals believe projects need to be evaluated to determine whether the desired outcomes have been achieved. Evaluations happen at the end of interventions. Although most of the time many organizations fail to give evaluation. Some reason for that is organization members misunderstand evaluations purpose and role, they fear the impact of evaluation findings, evaluation is considered

Any society with a near limitless potential for growth must redefine the concept of knowledge in order to gain efficiencies in its education system. Previous attempts at defining knowledge were flawed, in the mind of the Progressivist, by directly stating or implying a division or duality that presents a barrier to free intercourse of ideas. Examples of these dualities are that of different classes within a society such as rich vs poor, noble vs lower class, ruler vs ruled or that of the physical vs metaphysical worlds. Any duality serves to separate knowledge from action, a continuity which is proclaimed as ideal. Any piece of

Upon talking about the history of modern philosophy, one of the most important philosophers, who is considered as the father of the philosophy in this period, is Descartes. He was a pioneer for the movement of the new trend of philosophy and became a break between the medieval philosophy and the modern philosophy. Being educated in the environment of medieval philosophy, specifically in the school of Jesuits, Descartes received the system of scholastic philosophy as his foundation for making a new start into the history of philosophy. In his life, Descartes tried to establish a system of philosophy which was suitable to the development of society and science. To do that, he did not collapse pre-philosophical systems, but somehow he ignored their values. In his Meditations he says “Once in my life I had to raze everything to the ground and begin again from the original foundations, if I wanted to establish anything firm and lasting in the sciences.” Therefore, he just could begin a new system of philosophy which, he thought, would be a certain and firm foundation to get knowledge. However, to build up the principles for this foundation, Descartes had to use the concept of God in his arguments. The existence of God became an important means for the construction of his new philosophical system. Hence, I will emphasize on the importance of God in this paper by discovering the role of God as a means in Descartes’ main points of reasoning, particularly God with the method of

The fields of philosophy and theology are often grounds of debate. While some hold these two to be relevant and dependent on each other, others find them to be completely independent of each other. In John D. Caputo’s work, Philosophy and Theology, he expresses his view of these fields as companions. Caputo states, “Think of philosophers and theologians as fellow sailors on [the] ocean,” depicting his view of the interdependence of these two fields (Caputo 69). Through his illustration we can find the influence philosophy and theology can have on each other in facilitating our toleration of such a mysterious future and world.

Philosophy can be described as a chance for person to undertake an opportunity to understand themselves, our world and society, and relations between ourselves and one another. Those who are able to study philosophy, can find out what is to be human, what kind of person is it good to be, and especially how are we to live a good life. I, myself, have had an opportunity to take a philosophy class and as my time in philosophy is starting to come to a close, I am suddenly realizing how Philosophy has changed the aspects and my outlook upon my life.

It needs to be unleashed into a certain direction, to reach a certain goal we can work towards. In this situation, it becomes fuel for our efforts instead of a burden. Knowledge wants to be used. It is a tool, which if left unused, only rusts, but it makes us able to do tremendous amounts of work in a given space of time, if wielded properly. Knowledge needs clear targets to deliver. Knowledge needs to be organised. If we are consciously using our knowledge and we follow the whispers of our instincts that guide us, highlighting the way we want to go, then we acquired real, useful, palpable, effective specific

“All things in life are philosophical.” This is a well-known quote by the renowned Greek scientist/philosopher Aristotle. When one is to imagine life without thought, free will or knowledge, they are left to only imagine the oblivion they would be left to reside in. To me, philosophy is more than ethics, esthetics, and epistemology... it is the ability to stand ones ground with certain viewpoints, attitudes and beliefs.

Allow me to begin this paper with a quick story. Going into this semester, I knew absolutely nothing about philosophy, and I thought that with this class being a Gen Ed, that it was going to be a cakewalk on my way to just getting it out of the way. I quickly learned how wrong that my mind frame going into the class, as it was quickly finding itself digging me a deep hole to crawl into, grade wise. I never realized how deep the roots of philosophy ran, from government to art. This class has opened my eyes to the world around with more depth than I thought was possible. From Plato’s dualism to Nietzsche’ tragic optimism; there are just so many different facets to the realm of philosophy that I have just started to learn about. All in all, Its been successful semester and taking this course has helped open my eyes to the larger world around me, as well as help me decide where I stand on my own philosophy. But before I get into that, allow me to describe to you a few of the things I learned in this class, as well as where I stand on a few of the hotter topics in the world of philosophy.

Having the ability to successfully understand what drives human thought and action is a goal of all philosophers. Throughout time there has been a progressive movement to transition the philosophical thought patterns we can trace through a society to one that is based on more scientific reason. But through science we are not able to fully understand all scenarios due to outside influences that may hinder a specific action. Moving away from the scientific approach, we can utilize the ideas that history has taught us. From ancient Greece to current modern philosophy, the idea of our will and how we act upon that will has been identified as an action through either our moral or religious values. Nietzsche would want us to believe that it

Doing philosophy as many philosophers demonstrate over time and in the present is to simply question the understanding of what is known and not known or accepted and unaccepted. This is to say, that philosophers must question all aspects of life and all the surrounding dimensions of the world. In doing so, the philosopher is trying to grasp a firmer or different understanding of the truth that is either presently or not presently known; whether comforting or not comforting. One of the world’s most famous and original philosophers Socrates, had a student named Plato who explains this very concept of philosophy in the “Allegory of the Cave” when describing what it would be like for the newly free prisoner to realize the actual true reality in which the prisoner lives in. “[The prisoner would] be pained and dazzled and unable to see whose shadows [the prisoner had] seen before”, but the prisoner would now see reality more clearly than previously seen before. (Plato) Though the prisoner’s revelation seems to be uncomforting, Plato follows this newly sorrowful seen reality by asserting that the prisoner’s next steps in continuing would be to “see the sun, not images of it in water or some alien place, but the sun itself, in its own place, and be able to study it.” (Plato) The prisoner could now expand on this new realization of reality and allow this new view to further carry the prisoner to future and further understandings of reality and its