Why philosophy? That’s exactly the same question I keep asking myself. I'd always thought that philosophy is mean less and I would never apply it in my life, and now for the first time, I’m taking a philosophy course at high school.
I’d always hated the idea of having a philosophy class, but after reading the introduction of the book “The questions of life”, I’m getting to know that philosophy may have a purpose after all. As the book says “why do we study philosophy in the 21st century?” Well, I have been thinking about that a long time. I thought that with science, we had all the answers we needed and any question we had, by science, we could get a real and satisfactory answer.
The charges against philosophy as the book quotes “it serves no purpose”; so why do we need to study it? That’s when I started thinking that science may not have all the answers we are looking for. Science really only tell us facts, which without philosophy, wouldn't mean anything at all. By philosophy we can think further into a question that maybe hasn't a straight answer that science can offer us.
Numbers, facts and graphs are all mean less if you don’t apply them to your life, to what that really means to you, so that’s why I’d changed my mind and I now noticed that this course of philosophy may be helpful after all.
Yes, I thought the same thing as you that philosophy was just a boring class that I would never understand but the same happened to me after reading the introduction I thought that this class would be interesting and a good chance to start questioning stuff that is around us.
ResponderEliminarI also asked myself the same question and I also thought that philosophy class was going to be boring, but then I realized that it's not a bad idea. It will help us to understand more things and be able to answer our own questions without letting others answer it for us.
ResponderEliminarErick i like your post about philosphy, it made me think, was science made for complementing thoughts and helping people understand the reality more clearly? and if so, why do we forget the meanings of life then? i think sometimes we get stucked on science and dispel everything that is not proved by it.
ResponderEliminarI actualy knew too that philosophy class was not going to be fun but we have to make an effort to understand and kwnow more about something that we really have to know. so yes i will also try to do what is the best for the class
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