by Joyce Ann Mallare

Created on: May 04, 2010

Life is philosophy itself. Philosophy is life itself.  We think because we are human beings. We are living, breathing, and thinking creatures. We are capable of deciding what we want or what we don’t want. We are able to learn things and able to formulate ideas and opinions because of the knowledge we are encountering every day. These are the experiences that makes us alive whether they’re happy, sad, frustrating or any emotions that may able to come through out. “Experience is defined as a concept comprises of knowledge or skill in or observation of something or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event.” (http.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/experience) Some people think philosophy is a waste of time but then this will help find ourselves and find out who we really are. It will give us the pleasure and gratification to our senses, not just physically but also mentally and emotionally. According to John Locke knowledge is recorded once we are able to experience. These experiences are recorded permanently into our minds which go through our senses.

Unconsciously we are already creating philosophy just by asking what did I do this day or did I do something right this day or children asking why the sky is blue and just by questioning it’s already philosophy. We are not aware that aware that we discover philosophy in our everyday life. We are able to know the errors and contradictions because we think of concepts, it would not be vague. It would be clear and understandable. We think because we are able to simplify and explain things on how we want.

These experiences would be able to create philosophy. It would create decision making and thinking. For instance we have our science subject when we were young. We always have our lab experiments to prove or not to prove something or if we are inside the mall and we see something that we like and that’s where our dilemma starts to coming in. according to Soren Kierkegaard, it is important to have our own individual choices. We do have our freedom of speech, freedom of choice, freedom to vote and others as long as it is ours. He also said that it is important for people to have a meaningful existence. We, the individuals are the only one who can decide and choose what is good or bad with our lives because we have our own free will and independence.

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