"No one can learn philosophy, they can only learn to think philosophically." The idea of philosophy is just the answering of a few questions. “Who are you?” and, “Where does the world come from?” seem like two very simple inquiries. It could be answered by a name and a theory learned in science. Well, how could they not yet be fully answered when they have been asked for thousands of years? It is because they are not as straightforward as they seem and require vast amounts of consideration. Even the people, who have thought about the questions throughout their lives, have not quite reached at the answers that they are content with. Although I have only spent about a month and a half philosophizing over the questions, I have come up with some answers. To start off, an individual has many unique characteristics that make them an individual. I have the same opinion as Aristotle in that I am a human being, not an animal, because I have the ability to think and use reasoning. Since I can use my reasoning, I do not hav
e base my opinions solely on my senses. Also, it would never be necessary for me to “nestle down in the rabbit’s fur” seeing as I can always figure out something new. Blue was very comfortable in the “rabbit’s fur” before he had met Peach. Then Peach showed him another perspective of looking at the world. Blue was amazed that nothing amazed him and that he took everything for granted. Peach was so happy when she saw the different colors and Blue was not astounded at all. His routine, as was mine, was always unaffected until I read Sophie’s World and a new point of view of perceiving the world was given to me. "According to Berkeley, my own soul can be the cause of my own ideas—just as when I dream—but only another will or spirit can be the cause of the ideas that make up the 'corporeal' world. Everything is due to that spirit which is the cause of 'everything in everything' and which 'all things consist in,' he said." The idea that we only exist in God’s mind, proposed by Berkeley, could be true. We w
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