Wednesday, July 16, 2014

What sorts of questions do you think are worth studying even if we can never know the answers to them?Introduction to Philosophy

This is fun.  I mean, I think that this is going to be quite enjoyable.  Some questions that are worth studying, regardless of answers:


*  Who am I?


*  What shall I do?


*  How do I know I am real?  How do I know my world is real?


*  How do I know that there is a higher power?


*  Why does evil exist?


*  Why do human beings, armed with reason, cause deliberate hurt to one another?


*  What is justice?


*  What is truth?


*  What defines love?


*  Which sociological characteristic carries more "weight?"  Race, class, gender, sexual identity, physical capacity?


*  What happens after death?


*  Is there a soul?


*  How do I know if thoughts are mine?  What is "mine?"


*  How do I come to know what I know?


These are just a sampling.  Along with the other questions posed, I think that these are the types of questions that might not necessarily result in direct answers.  It is the questions that drive us, that animate us, and that generate our thoughts.  I think that these are types of questions worthy of studying, even if answers are never going to be gained.  In these questions' cases, the journey is more important than the destination.

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