Philosophy is the study of the founder’s mental nature of knowledge and reality. This short essay will be focusing on the meaning of philosophy for us today and it will also outline the different ways how philosophy can help us as humans to face reality as it is like a tool to enhance our knowledge about things we do not know or questions we seek to know answers from.
As it is known that philosophy is all rational inquiry except for science, for us today philosophy means a fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. Philosophy is today seen as a way to find the answers to questions like where we come from, how we can know something, and what we can do to have knowledge of something. It also means a systematic way to enhance a person's problem-solving capacity as it helps us analyze concepts, definitions, arguments, and problems. It forms a worldview and also has an indirect influence on the development of practical solutions.
While facing reality, we come across many philosophical questions which needs answers, even though we cannot get answers from those question, we can know a reason why we can't know the answers or truth. As philosophy belongs to the lives of everyone, it can help us solve problems, mundane or abstract, and it helps us makes better decisions concerning bigger problems we come across in life. Philosophy can make us productive individuals and citizens in the country. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy, it studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principle of being, identity and change, space and time, causality and necessity, and probability. By studying philosophy, we can learn how to develop and present our arguments. To succeed in business and other careers, we need philosophy as it is an important tool.
Questions like how, why, and what can be easily answered through philosophy, as we engage in arguments in philosophy with the aim to gain better information about something. Philosophy makes sense that it would be for any problem. Philosophy can tackle any question, there’s no which is big or too small, and this can help us engage in many activities like a debate with the aim of gaining knowledge after that particular activity. We can be persuasive through philosophy, which is a better thing needed to face reality. Ontological questions also feature in diverse branches of philosophy, including the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mathematics, and philosophical logic. These include questions about whether only physical objects are real.
The study of philosophy enhances a person's problem-solving capacities. It helps us to analyze concepts, definitions, arguments, and problems. It contributes to our capacity to organize ideas and issues, deal with questions of value, and extract what is essential from large quantities of information. It helps us, on the one hand, to distinguish fine and subtle differences between views, and on the other hand, to discover common ground between opposing positions. It also helps us to synthesize a variety of views or perspectives into one unified whole.
Questions about the nature of consciousness and the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality can be easily answered through the study of philosophy. The problem ‘what is reality?’ arises from a consciousness of ourselves as living in a world that seems to be outside of, and yet is the cause of, our conscious life. Our reflections on this led us to wonder if we can know of the world beyond our perceptions – the underlying cause of our consciousness of appearances. This world of the underlying cause we call ‘reality’.
Philosophy (the love of wisdom) is an effective tool that is needed by humans to face reality. This essay on the meaning of philosophy for us and how it can help us face reality made me realize that there is no question that is unanswerable, even though we cannot get the answers from other questions, there are other things we can learn from those questions. The fundamental knowledge from philosophy can help fight many circumstances we can come across in the future.