Essay - What Role Does Philosophy Have on My Life? Man as...

What Role does Philosophy have on My Life?

Man as a thinking, reas*****ing and rationale being is what makes him different from the brutes. We have been blessed with the superiority to rule over creation ***** are expected ***** manage these resources properly. Our mind and its thinking process is simply not the only function there ***** but our heart and its feelings and our soul and its capacity to be one with a greater power makes us more special. But what truly makes man unique is our capacity to live life to the fullest and love life as human *****s ought to. In living and loving, we ***** various reasons and ***** rationalize or justify these reasons. Hence, this reasoning process is part of ***** underst*****ing of life - and without which ***** isn't much to live for. This is when we realize that philosophy - from the Greek philos (friend/lover) and Sophia (wisdom) - has been, is and will always be ***** and parcel ***** our existence as human beings. Aside ***** the general effects ***** h***** on our lives, some of its sub-branches like ethics and logic have always ***** tools we use in our everyday *****.

In the first two decades of my existence, ***** choices I have made with my life ***** been inundated ***** reas*****ing and rationalizing on why I make such choices. Even in my earlier years as a kid, I *****d to think first why I did wh*****t ***** did ***** when the choice I made had been either good or bad, I learned from these and my wisdom increased a bit more. For instance ***** I was in grade school, there ***** a bully who wouldn't let other kids play in the sand box ***** the park. I decided ***** day to face my fears and c*****front the bully. But before I did so, I thought and pondered about what could ***** would happen, and whether ***** am strong enough to face my *****. In the end, facing the "fearsome" bully was a daunting task but when I ***** it, all turned out well because the bully was merely a facade and we *****ed up being good friends. I did not know it at the time but I went through a "philosophizing" orde*****l wherein to gain wisdom, I thought ab***** how ***** face ***** fear ***** ***** bully. I was going through a logical process on whether to do or not to and ethically, I was debating whether I should use force it force was cast ********** me.

As a young adult, I now ***** that philosophy is like the air I breathe ***** the water I drink wherein ***** latter two are the sustenance of my body while ***** is the ***** of ***** mind and my soul. W*****hout philosophy in my ***** or understanding the imp*****tance of *****, I might as well be relegated to the status of a zombie *****nd walk the earth aimlessly and with nowhere *****