Philosophy is surprisingly interesting!

So two days ago, I hit Freedom Institute – my favorite sanctuary – to get some inspirations for my essays. Yet I came across a very interesting book, encyclopedia-sized with a huge tittle graven on it: THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY by Bryan Magee.
Several years ago, definitely I won’t even bother to glimpse for twice, but yeah as you have probably guessed, I took it from the shelf and I READ it and I LIKED it.
So long I have been self-assuming that philosophy is a very difficult and complicated subject. Maybe because I have never really tried to understand it or now that I am older, my mind develops interest in far more serious subjects.

What kept me flipping the pages and be absorbed to the world of famous philosophers live in hundreds BC is that their thoughts and ideas gave a lot more sense to my knowledge and things that are understood in the present time. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and many others have not only enhanced my understanding on the profound use of particular academic courses, but also the way I see this life.

Please let me cite some of their says – though I hope I can copy the entire book here –
1) “Our direct experience is not of reality, but what is in our mind” – Plato.
It’s from his allegory The Myth of The Cave. Personally, this allegory left a very deep impression on me as my mind tends to visualize what I want to believe instead of what is in the reality.

2) “Whatever is outside all possibility of experience for us can be nothing for us. We have no validatable way of referring to it, or talking about it, and therefore it cannot enter into our discourse in any reliable way: If we stray beyond the ground covered by experience, we wander into EMPTY TALK” – Aristotle. This one is incredibly useful to avoid gossiping or me being so full of it.

3) And so forth. But I’ll just bore you with my long writing by featuring all of them here. Plus it’s more exciting to read and feel it by yourself as there’s no such a single interpretation on every ideas human capable to contemplate. All theories, concepts, ideologies, and ideas are remained questionable and have distinct profound impressions on every person, because that’s the very heart of Philosophy.

 

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