Importance of philosophy today
Philosophy is something that most people do not take importance, because in their daily lives it seems not to affect at all. People like you or me, we do not perceive philosophy to the naked eye, so we could believe that it is not really present, and if I do not miss anything and I am happy, then it is possible to ask ourselves. Philosophy, is it really important?
That absence of the philosophy that we feel in our day is something apparent, to ask ourselves if philosophy has any utility or not, it is a very common philosophical exercise which we do every day when we have a problem. Philosophizing is part of our life. But let’s not go. To understand philosophy and its usefulness. It is necessary to analyze the roots of Western philosophy. To know what he has done for us and in what way he has helped us to form the society in which we live. Only in this way can we know the true utility of this, so we will analyze the root of Western philosophy.
Greek culture is the one that marked the principle of Western philosophy. Although there was philosophy worldwide. While in the world humans were more interested in conquering new lands and enslaving other humans, the Greeks had the time to analyze and ask questions about life and the reality in which we live.
Of these questions, five philosophers gave their opinion that it is reality. In general, most believed that there were arché which were the origin of everything. The only one who separated from that idea were Democritus and Pythagoras, which gave him a more scientific interpretation of the matter, resulting as a more notable result, the explanation of reality through atom and vacuum.
Of the Greeks, the philosopher known as Socrates was born in Athens, which slapped all the philosophers of the time, because he identified that the first step to acquire knowledge is to accept that one does not know everything.
Thanks to Socrates, the search for knowledge began, more specifically the way we acquired it. Socrates believed that through dialogue new ideas were generated for people. Plato on the other hand believed that human beings have the ability to understand through the process of remembering what we already know. In this way, we reach one of the greatest wise men who have existed. Aristotle managed to understand that the world is composed of matter and form, and from this we must understand that they are in motion. Well, everything is part of a continuous chain of movements.
We can see that the classics were very clear what for them was reality. But over time, the Middle Ages arrived. And with the arrival of a new stage of humanity came a new way of seeing life, and this was through religion.
In the principles of humanity, man had a sense of existence. But, recently, a hippie named Jesus ruined him. In the principles of humanity, when the beasts hunted humans and they could not do anything to avoid it. They had a connection to the sacred. They were in charge of burying the dead "bad" and the "good" honored them by removing their skull and painted it red to maintain and honor their spirit in the tribe. Each one his hobbies. Here we can appreciate that while the man cares about looking for food and not being eaten, he also sought the time to paint the skulls of his deceased. And not by emos, but his connection with the divine was just as important as sleeping or eating. Until Christianity arrived. That he was responsible for nameing this connection and called the Blessed Trinity and granted a power, this power is known as the truth. "I am the way, truth and life," says the Bible. Unfortunately for Christianity, their most curious devotees were the inventors of the scientific method, which we like or not, it is a more effective method than faith to find "the truth" (objective truth and capable of reproducing in the physical world, notthe metaphysical truths of subjective experience).
The medieval era was very ugly. People did not care about their health, and at the time you were born, your destiny was already written until the end of your days. If you are born as a worker, you were going to die like a worker. And if you had an idea that would revolutionize humanity, it didn’t matter. Well your destiny would be to be a worker all your life. Shakespeare calls him the cosmic farce. He said that "the world is a scenario and all of us are actors". The people of that time believed that this was the world and that nothing could change. Until everything changed. To begin, the black plague eradicated most of the inhabitants of Europe. The workforce was more valuable, and the workers with more money, had time to wonder, why would God allow this to happen?
In turn, the Turks were interested in Constantinople and conquered it. All the sages who still lived the last city of the Romans, went to Italy. Thanks to this, most Europeans decided to abandon the thought in darkness and discovered the ideas of the modern era. It is worth asking, what change at this time?
First, we lost our important place in the cosmos, since the earth was not the center of a glass dome in which everything moved around it, we discovered reality. Reality which tells us that Gaia is a tiny body in the cosmos that revolves around the sun that in turn revolves in the bastic of the universe.
We also lost social order. The nobles and commoners understood that each one decides the life he wants to have and not a god. A more adventurous person commented that the only ones who follow the natural laws are animals. Because man through his reason and technique, manages to transform the world at will.
The soul went from being a substance to being a subject. Well in ancient times
Leave feedback