Philosophy

People suck. I mean, let's look at it. We're not the strongest animal, an Elephant could kill us like we kill bugs. We're not the fastest, a cheetah would lap Usain Bolt. We're not the biggest, giraffes are cooler than us there. And no matter how much you believe, no matter how long you flail your arms, you aren't gonna fly. What humans do have, though, is our mind. We can make machines that can crush anything, we can make cars that go faster than the cheetah, we make giant buildings that pass the clouds, and we can make rockets that can take us beyond Earth. We can create ideas. This is where philosophy is derived, thought, the ability to think and contemplate about ourselves, life, and the universe. In this post we'll discuss what philosophy is and is there any point to it? What exactly is philosophy? In all honesty, I don't know. The question of defining philosophy is philosophy in itself, and the most coherent definition I can get is from the trusty google: the study of fundamental knowledge, reality, and existence. While I wouldn't say it's an area of study, it's more of an area of creation. You are creating in thought, you are creating in knowledge, you are creating in ideologies of reality and existence. Putting that in the puzzle, Philosophy is the creation of fundamental knowledge and thought pertaining to reality and existence—even though I said I didn't know, I just came up with that, so let's roll with it. The other way to look at is that philo- is Greek for love, and sophos- Greek for wisdom. Philosophy being directly translated into the love of wisdom.

Now, is philosophy really important? I mean I guess it's cool to think about morals, and how I should know that I know nothing, but is it necessary? I argue that it is. Philosophy let's us think about those problems and issues that arise as our mind does what it can. The human mind is capable of imagining time travel, so it must be capable of imagining what would happen if you messed with time. Paradoxes like that or existential questions such as the ship of Theses, these questions don't have answers, and everyone having the capacity to create their own answers makes for wonderful conversation, and as many of my posts have shown, humans are social creatures, conversation is important, as is philosophy.

It's a short one today, but after the last long post I thought a short one wouldn't hurt (it's definitely not because I scrapped a paragraph because I didn't know what it meant when I wrote it down in my notebook). Philosophy, a creation of thought, and an important ability for humans. I hope you enjoyed the short post, a normal-sized one will be coming out next week, I hope you have an amazing one, until then, peace.