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Role of Philosophy In Your Life
Philosophy is a Greek term which basic meaning is the love of wisdom. While in a broader sense philosophy is considered as an activity which is undertaken by all the people when they try to find out basic and important truths about themselves, the environment they interact with and also the world they live in, their basic relationship and interaction with the world and also with each other. The people who study philosophy are continuously involved in asking various questions, answering them and also arguing for their answers to the most basic and vital questions of an individual's life. In general, Philosophy is the practice of thinking about what, why and how we think about some of the specific realities of life ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"x4d4iezz","properties":{"formattedCitation":"({\\i{}What Is Philosophy? The Basics of Philosophy})","plainCitation":"(What Is Philosophy? The Basics of Philosophy)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1250,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/2ZKWRIWM"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/2ZKWRIWM"],"itemData":{"id":1250,"type":"webpage","title":"What is Philosophy? The Basics of Philosophy","URL":"https://www.philosophybasics.com/general_whatis.html","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",4,1]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (What Is Philosophy? The Basics of Philosophy). The main purpose of philosophical questioning is to simplify our own thinking process and then answering the question that whether we have good reasons to think or not. So as a whole philosophy is not a set of easy certainties but it is a rational adventure in which everything is open for questions and re-evaluations. And also to deal with radical uncertainty it provides us the means for dealing with it rather than denying it. It provides us the chance about the limits of what we know instead of despairing us about the things that we don’t know ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"CMsRxkEo","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Priest)","plainCitation":"(Priest)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1252,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/IPABIXGB"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/IPABIXGB"],"itemData":{"id":1252,"type":"article-journal","title":"What Is Philosophy?","container-title":"Philosophy","page":"189-207","volume":"81","issue":"316","source":"JSTOR","archive":"JSTOR","ISSN":"0031-8191","author":[{"family":"Priest","given":"Graham"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2006"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Priest).
In the lives of many of us, there is a deep problem which is that we always work hard and invest our energy and time for money and related possessions to surround us. Once we achieve one of the shiny things then our mind becomes preoccupied with a new one. This is a never-ending cycle and it will continue like this, our culture is also pushing us for the virtue of accumulation and also consumption as a way to be happy in our lives. As a result, we go for a nice car, fine clothes and also a spacious house. But there comes a certain point when we realize that all this does not work and we become clueless about where we are heading. So at such time, the philosophy of life comes in and it provides us a guide about what to aim for in our lives and also how to get those things. As life is a long journey where we try to find answers and also try to cope with doubts and fears that we have. So in order to create success and also to achieve happiness philosophy is very important. Philosophy helps us to argue about a certain situation in our lives more forcefully, it allows us to express our thoughts comprehensively and then it allows us to be more creative, flexible and tolerable towards the problems that we face in a day to day life. Therefore it is safe to say that philosophy helps us to have a better life by teaching us about the problems and how to solve them.
As it is true that God after creating us do not intervene in our day to day life and activities and. He made us free about everything we do or intended to do because it is only on us that how we want to live our life. Every individual has a free will that means that every single person is free to whatever they want to do but that does not mean that our actions have no consequences. All our actions either good or bad that we take out of our free will have consequences. If we do good then that means that we will have a good reward for it or we will have a good life but if we do bad then certainly we have to bear the negative consequences and it will definitely come back to us so these are some philosophical ideas which help me to determine my own thoughts and ideas.
I live this life because this was the life which was destined for me even before my birth and I think that this is the best life that I can get. If other people lived the kind of life that I am living I am not sure that if it would be good for them as well because like everyone my life has also its own ups and downs I have my own problems and my own concerns but there are millions of people out there who are living without food and also without shelter and obviously and as compare to them my life is much better because I have all the necessities in my life I am getting my education I don't go and beg and things like that. So if there are people for whom my life will be good there are also those people who are living a good life as compared to mine. Also the world is a better place because all of the people despite of having their own lows and struggles are playing their role in making other people's life good so I cannot say that if everyone would have my life then the world would be a better place because I doubt that it would be the case.
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