Renniel M.

Dimalanta, BSAT3-1 Intro to Philo with Logic and Critical Thinking January 30, 2012 Me, Philosophy and Its Value Every time Im writing paper for philosophy it is always hard for me to start, this time its different, I know where to start and I made my outline for this paper I called Philosophy Its Value Me (either). I manipulated a little the title because I want a little twist and for me Philosophy adds value to me. In my 19 years living in this planet Earth, I have many questions since then which still remain questions for me up to now. Some of these questions are very personal like why I am here?, whats my purpose?, why God created me? or is there really God? and some of my questions are just mere common sense that I want to know why 1+ 1=2 and when is the time when 1+1 is not equal to 2. Sometimes I also ask why people called a glass glass or where common sense came from?, or simply Saan nagsimula ang lahat? this was the same question I wrote on our assignment in Philosophy. Philosophy is the study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence; a theory or attitude that guides ones behavior. This is the definition of Philosophy based on my dictionary but for me Philosophy is very hard to define because it is abstract and its value is very broad and for me it is hard to express. Philosophy wants us to have a systematic world view and best analogy is what I read in the book, that we are like a flea on a rabbits skin and philosophers are the monkey-like flea who wants to peak at the magicians eye and to the people watching the magic trick. This is how broad the Philosophy is.

If you want to study Philosophy you must first study its history. Like human beings if you want to understand a persons behavior or know her better you must know her past, because all of us have beginnings and what happened from that moment makes us what we are today. People tend to say that their past is past and they dont really mind that now, but for me that is never true because somehow we are affected by our past. Just like Philosophy we need to revisit our history to learn from mistakes or else history will repeat itself. From this moment I want to take Philosophy with me back in my time. Theres a point when I was a child that I am easily fooled and frightened about ghosts and I really hate watching horror movies. Questions about ghosts also exist now but I dont believe in ghost because Im starting to become existentialist. I dont believe in anything unless it is in front of my eyes. Theres also a time when I saw my mother writing her name Luzviminda Mendoza this moment drive me crazy because I thought that mama does not belong to the family because she has different middle name, but then I realized that is normal. Theres come the change and maturation. As I become older I perceived things differently and it became more complicated and complex than when I was a child, simple joys are hard to find. The more I learned the more I ask for everything I thought was answerable. For me the world was getting bigger and bigger. Ive met different persons in my life some became friends, friends that I can talk about things that I want to know which I cant ask to my family. We often talk about religion their Gods and my faith. (As a person, I dont have much time to go to church but that doesnt mean that Im an atheist of course I believe in God.) We often believe in the things which are not true and sometimes we know that it must be happening thats why we believe in it. As of now I cannot act like a child and dont participate in our problems especially financial ones. Me with my family thinking with the edge of our brain help us realise what should be done to our problems, what I

want to say is that the members of the family have different views and perspective but we only have one goal and we can surpass any problem if we keep on understanding each other. For me I didnt change myself Im just developed. Since I was a child I always think that I was a mature person and I hold that from then. I didnt change myself. For me I have in myself my inner thoughts and emotions that I developed as I grew old. There once my favorite TV series entitled Money War from this series Ive got my first philosophy in life. If you are alive search for the money and not for love, for love will automatically come to you while money you will need to search for it but this thought dont last when the love came to me. When love came to my life all my dreams are gone!!!Nope, I should say all of my dreams started to shift to reality. WE became visionary of our life. And there comes a point when I ask myself why she need to study (Im just philosophizing) if I will be the one to work and she will only stay in our house taking care of our babies =). Just kidding, I know we both have dreams in our life and we want to fulfil it together For me heres the bottom line. Without Philosophy in my life I will not become who I am and what I am now. My life will be complacent if I dont philosophize and make decisions in my life. Philosophy helps me to find my role in life and my role to others and it really helped me to play my role at my best. It helped me by seeing things differently with deeper understanding. It also improved my wisdom without realizing it. God give me work till my life shall end and life till my work end. In the end I believe that all of this is under the control of HIM. Whatever happens I know that Im here for a mission that God want me to do and Im going to share my worth to others through Philosophy.

Assignment in Philosophy 100 20 Examples of Fallacies From Newspaper Arguments

Submitted by Renniel M. Dimalanta BSAT3-1