Reflection Of Personal Philosophy: My Philosophy Of Philosophy

Philosophy: When I hear the word philosophy I think about thinking. If you would have asked me that same question before I took this class, I would tell you that Philosophy sounds like a super difficult class that is going to consist of your opinion. Philosophy is talking about how you think and your opinion, but it is also teaching you how to look at other people and figure out how they think. Not just what they think but where their views are coming from. This paper is about how we become someone else when we are taken out of our norm. When you are taken out of the society and are the only person thinking about yourself, everything changes. Your opinion of different topics change because no one is influencing you to think, you become more …show more content…
I have come to a realization that you do not even realize that you are being influenced because we have grown up in a world where you follow and think as others. One of the quotes that really stuck out to me was, “Be yourself! You are none of those things that you now do, think, and desire.” This makes you think and have hope, because even though you did something or you think something, does not mean that it makes who you are. We have the freedom to think what we want and to desire what we want, but in saying that the society has a huge impact on what we desire and what we think. In Nietzsche reading he says something that blows my mind because it is something we do not even think about. He asked a traveler that had seen many lands and nations, “what was the most common characteristic that you discovered in all of humanity?” The traveler replied with “They have a tendency toward laziness,” the crazy part is we do not think about it because in our society it is okay to be lazy so no one can judge you. When you sit down and actually think about it without society’s impact, you realize that the traveler was correct. We tend to follow others, and being lazy is just another trait that proves my point. If society thought being lazy was something terrible than there would be more people getting up and exercising, but since it is …show more content…
The fight club is a club that you never talk about because it a secret club that is held in the basement of a bar. The meaning of fight club is that you become someone else when your there. No one is judging you for what you do for a living or what you look like. They are all there for the same reason, to fight. When you are taken out of society a doing something that society would not agree with, your mind goes to a different place. You realize that you do not need the thoughts of others controlling what you think or desire. “Who I am in fight club is not someone my boss knows.” When you hear that quote it really hits home because you realize that you can be whatever you want and think whatever you want to think, you just have to get rid of society’s influence on your mind. In the story, Fight club, they make a realization that they are fighting for more than fun. They are fighting for the little things in life that they cannot fight for in the day time. This shows us that whatever the problem is, there is always a solution to solving it. When society is drawn out of your mind, you start to realize how independent you are and what really matters in life. You realize that what society makes you think is sometimes not even what you want to