Philosophy of life

The Philosophy of Christian Education Philosophy and Education Philosophy is an academic discipline that exercises reason and logic in an attempt to understand reality and answer fundamental questions about knowledge, life, morality and human nature. 1 Philosophy may be viewed as a roadblock or as a tool in learning what our human purpose is. In Colossians 2:8, NIV, Paul states, “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and…

satirical humour and experience Candide’s struggle to have faith in his philosophy. In the book, the philosophy followed by Candide, that we live in the best possible world and everything happens for the best possible reason, changes over and over.…

ethics and morals. Ayn Rand and Martin Luther King, Jr. were similar in the ways of being talented writers, seeing value in each man and denouncing racism but, they were very different in every other aspect of life such as, each having their own important view of altruism, within their philosophies. Firstly, Ayn Rand and Martin Luther King,…

Educational philosophies are essentially the opinion of a teacher that describe how they will teach students information in their classes and it also explains the ideologies and scenarios where this learning will occur. Educational philosophies describe how the ideal principles of how education is and should be in schools in the eyes of a single teacher. Having been exposed to teachers for a majority of my life, I have been around teachers who have had all sorts of different ideologies in which…

once said "The unexamined life is not worth living." Without examining life, no change will ever come to people or cultures. Western Culture has developed over centuries, drawing on many archaic civilization’s qualities. Perhaps the most important influencer was that of Ancient Greece; a society that sought a balance, order, and harmony that people have emulated for thousands of years. The Greeks laid the foundations for Western Civilization with their formation of philosophy, history,…

importance does philosophy have? In the book, Seneca: Letters from a Stoic, Seneca wrote the letters to his friend Lucilius, on the importance of philosophy and its use in life. There are three significant questions that can decipher Seneca's meaning on philosophy. The first significant question that can decipher Seneca's meaning on philosophy is: What is Seneca's ideal of the philosopher? The ideal philosopher is one who seeks wisdom and joy throughout life. The philosophers life is…

Immanuel Kant is one of the many inspirational philosophers that represent Western European philosophy, especially with one of his famous philosophy work, which called, “Goodwork of the Metaphysics of Moral”. In his famous work he argues,” that morality is based neither on the principle of utility, nor on a law of nature, but on human reason (Sandel)”. In his philosophy work, he defines the thought process of defining the meaning of “goodwill” from his perspective and reflects upon the three…

Socrates as one of the founders of Western philosophy opened a new chapter for the humankind. He considers rhetoric as a form of deception which only casually informs people for the sake of arguing for egotistical motives. He initially has started questioning almost everything around him and was looking for logical answers. So, as a person, who believed in the reasons he did not want to accept any position without a thought. Socrates believed that the art of rhetoric does not require lots of…

differences in culture, race or religion, all men the same questions about their own identity, their origin, their destination, the existence of evil, the enigma that follows death arises. That is, find an ultimate truth that gives meaning to your life. For much of the current thinking, however, it is a wild goose chase, for man would be unable to reach the truth. This is the starting point that has given rise to the thirteenth encyclical of John Paul II, which was published on 15…

Indian Philosophy in Deleuze’s ‘Body without Organs’ I. Introduction – Brian Massumi rightly spells out the Deleuzian philosophy when he calls it ‘self-problematizing’; always confronting the reader with the question of what it is all about, and what to do with it. It challenges the reader to do something with it. It is pragmatic, not dogmatic. Pierre Hadot attributes this distinction between discourse about philosophy and philosophy itself to Stoics: ‘For the Stoics, the parts of…