When I first walked into this
philosophy class I had asked myself some questions that I set out to answer by the end of the semester,
after all this was a philosophy class I needed to gain something from it
besides the credit for graduation. So I asked myself these following questions;
what is my own personal definition of what philosophy is, who is truly is a
philosopher, could I possibly be considered a philosopher this entire time and
not realize it? What was my own personal life philosophy? How do I leave an
impact on the world like some of the great philosophers we studied in this very
class?
When thinking about the questions
that I asked myself on the very first day of class I can know answer those very
questions. My own personal definition of philosophy is that it is the search
for the truth and knowledge in basic human actions. When thinking about what a
philosopher was I seen that it truly can be anybody. A philosopher is someone
who questions something that we as human beings do. So yes, I’ve been a
philosopher this entire time and I never even realized it. Well not realized
just never thought of giving it that title of philosopher, I just thought I was
just someone who was just born to question everything about today’s traditional
society’s way of life.
The hardest question that I asked
myself on that very first day was what my own life’s philosophy is. I didn’t
come to realize what my life’s philosophy was until me speaking to someone
about spreading love and tolerance for people and not hate destruction for
their differences in life than our own. It was in that moment I realized what
was my life’s true philosophy was and that was that I wanted to spread the
philosophy of Love and Tolerance not
Hate and Destruction for when it comes to people having a different lifestyle
that are against the cultural normal that we are taught to obtain. We tend to
criminalize and demean people who are different than us simply because we don’t
know them or we have been instilled something that was taught when a change was
considered armed and dangerous. In particular we as American’s seem to make
people who are a part of the LGBTQ community suffer so much when it comes to
the simplest of things. Such as a bathroom choice or being able to get married. Now if we were to give out the same type of
treatment to heterosexual people we would see an uprising of aggression when
the LGBTQ community has been nothing but passive in their efforts for equality.
You might not like that person’s lifestyle but that doesn’t give you the right
to treat them as a less than equal person. Why don’t we ask them about that
lifestyle? It seems that the one thing that separates us from each other is the
lack of knowledge of each other differences, you just might have something in
common. We tend to act as if we know all
about something we in all actuality we really know nothing about that
lifestyle.
Last but not least, my last
question and simply the easiest question of them all that I asked myself on
that very first day of class was how can my life’s philosophy leave an enormous
impact like Aristotle and Socrates did in the world and for future generations.
My answer to that simply continues to spread Love and Tolerance in every
endeavor that I do and that my Love and Tolerance will spread to the next
person and they will pass it on to the next. Because deep down in everyone we
all know that the best way to leave the greatest impact on the world is through
LOVE AND TOLERANCE.
Section 8- Commentary
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the energy that this post contains and the passion that you put behind your own beliefs with your words. That being said, though it may be common knowledge, I would have liked to see supplementary links or sources in your essay. If you had put a video or even a photo of, let's say, an LGBT+ event, I think that you would have really driven home the points that you were trying to make. Besides that, I believe your personal beliefs are powerful.
"the philosophy of Love and Tolerance not Hate and Destruction" -that's a wonderful philosophy. Keep spreading it, we need it badly!
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