Philosophy – The Pursuit of Wisdom

Derived from the Greek language ‘philosopia’ translating to ‘the love of wisdom’, philosophy is a subject matter that most people stray away from, it just seems unnecessary, unimportant but every one of us know that there is something to be gained from it something that might help us find answers to life’s questions. While most people will pursue happiness, love, money or family philosophers pursue knowledge in wisdom and how to implement that wisdom into their lives and share their new found wisdom.

Wisdom as we have been conditioned to think is gained by experience which is why we acquaint wisdom to an elderly person. And it is true wisdom isnt magically something you gain like a skill set or how to ride a motorbike it takes time and you have to experience hardship and during that hardship you gain some wisdom when you start thinking and applying logical perspectives to the situation, if you lost everything you ever earned you’d be devastated all your lifes work gone but give it a second and turn around you’ll realized why you did all that work for, your family and when you think about it would all that money bring that family member or friend at that for even one second?

Philosophy is about asking the big questions and going againt the grain to find the answers that we are hungry for. Most people avoid big questions, what is our purpose? Why do we work? Why do we love? Philosophers dont shy away from type of questions because thanks to human nature they can’t rest until they get their answers. And as we all know the first big community of philosophers was the Greek and as we all know they had so many philosophical views on everything and most of them were scientifically proven differently their philosophies still run to this day which a way of showing us that ideas will never die.

Nowadays philosophers are very few in numbers occasionally found in universities which is a bit sad if you think about it, we are the most connected generation of human beings ever and while yes there might be small groups of philosophers online they are always over shadowed by common sense which doesnt let them think opening share their wisdom their knowledge like how the greeks and romans did if we did that who knows what kind of new ideas we have can birth. Philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom so until you are ready to think critically ask lifes biggest questions and die to find their answers? So are you ready to think again?

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