Questions
I've noticed I ask a lot of questions, but I have very little answers. Maybe this is a good thing. I wouldn't say that I am a very opinionated person, (I do have opinions), but I think I have realized that opinions should never get in the way of the more important things.
Often, I think, our opinions are ill-formed and then we base alot of our understanding of things/ideas/whatever on these ill-concieved formations of opinion. That's a tough one to tackle, but it's true. I have to admit my ignorance on a lot of things because I just don't know.. I've noticed in most of my classes, I really don't know a lot about the subjects at hand. I used to pretend I knew, or would like to have thought that I knew, but it was more of me taking other people's word for things. Or hearing other people's banter and taking it as my own idea.
This is why I probably have a huge draw towards philosophy because I never really thought on my own.
Yea, it sounds kind of sad, but coming from Highschool, thinking wasn't really required. I could get by just fine without forming any of my own ideas. And that is were I stood in a lot of ways. Having badly concieved opinions stemming from my friends and family and peers.
And a shame it is. One of the things that Plato stresses is an individual's thinking for himself. This is extremely important. Not to just take other people's word for it. Not to take your professors word, or your pastors word, or your parents word. But to really toss it around in your
head and apply reason to it. Apply Biblical truth towards it. Apply your own understanding and test it against other things experience, etc, etc.
“How can we remember our ignorance which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?” Henry David Thoreau
Often, I think, our opinions are ill-formed and then we base alot of our understanding of things/ideas/whatever on these ill-concieved formations of opinion. That's a tough one to tackle, but it's true. I have to admit my ignorance on a lot of things because I just don't know.. I've noticed in most of my classes, I really don't know a lot about the subjects at hand. I used to pretend I knew, or would like to have thought that I knew, but it was more of me taking other people's word for things. Or hearing other people's banter and taking it as my own idea.
This is why I probably have a huge draw towards philosophy because I never really thought on my own.
Yea, it sounds kind of sad, but coming from Highschool, thinking wasn't really required. I could get by just fine without forming any of my own ideas. And that is were I stood in a lot of ways. Having badly concieved opinions stemming from my friends and family and peers.
And a shame it is. One of the things that Plato stresses is an individual's thinking for himself. This is extremely important. Not to just take other people's word for it. Not to take your professors word, or your pastors word, or your parents word. But to really toss it around in your
head and apply reason to it. Apply Biblical truth towards it. Apply your own understanding and test it against other things experience, etc, etc.
“How can we remember our ignorance which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?” Henry David Thoreau
