Why philosophy?
I haven’t been interested in philosophy through out my whole life but now that I have a class that I have to pass I think I have to be at least a bit interested. I’m not the kind of girl as Fernando Savater said with “A philosophical vocation”.
Sometimes it comes to my mind a question. A question that I think all of you have had, that kind of question where you don’t know what path to take or you don’t know from where to start answering, what to trust or not. The question of where do we go after we die? And I haven’t quiet found an answer. But how am I going to find an answer if even one of the most important philosophers Socrates said “I only know that I know nothing”, we are not going to find an specific answer and if we did so there will be still people that are not going to be satisfied with it, so why are we still questioning ourselves if we are not going to find an answer to it.
Philosophy always tries to find an answer to every question, this world is compost of all kinds of questions that no one knows its answers.
We can use philosophy as a hobby or as a conversation with some one but not as a passion. What are they getting from it?, How would they know if they are right or wrong?, and a lot of philosophers have already question all kinds of questions, so why philosophy?
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I really like to comment in this blog because I found Andrea's thoughts very interesting. She doesn't like philosophy at all. I really disagree with Andrea because of many different things.
ResponderEliminarFirst of all, I think technical people will like to find a logical answer for every question they have. There must be a logical explanation for each question in order to understand the world better.
Secondly, i don't think we should stop questioning ourselves just because we can't find answers for some questions. If we have a question we should try to find an answer in order to satisfy ourselves. Maybe in the process of finding the answers we can find many discoveries.
Those are the two reasons why I disagree Andrea's blog.
Your honesty about your feelings on philosophy is refreshing, but I tend to side with Murra a bit. Basically, if you can't find anything out without questioning, you can't discover or invent without that action. Even if we don't find answers we progress in our ability to reason, to think. So, questioning why we question is similar to questioning why we should think at all.
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