Life With A Why: Philosophy of Life
Time and time again, as you look at the world without the constant hum of noise and work and schedule, when you actually look, you find that our greatest treasure has been our mind. You think, and you realize that probably this is what we all come down to. Thought. Life is an exercise in thought, full of questions and answers. Look at life with a why and you’ll find so much worth finding out.
When you look at history, at art, at the distance we’ve covered from handprints on cave walls to the stroke of a brush dipped in oil and paint casting shadows on blank canvas, you realise that all of human essence lies in human thought.
The philosophy of life is to ask and to answer. Philosophy—the love of wisdom—was once the science of which all sciences emerged. It was an enterprise in thinking and thinking was what gave rise to all of human interest and subjects. Today we think mostly about what to cook for dinner and how to manage time so as to sneak in a few minutes of yoga before work. We think about assignments and deadlines and family dinners and we think about doing things if we get the time. We think about thinking if we get the time.
We think fleeting, briefly—a quarter hour before lunch or for a few minutes lying in the dark trying to fall asleep. We touch the surface of the ocean of our own mind with a fascinated hand, and we don’t dive deeper. We don’t have the time.
This is to remind you to think. To nudge you gently under the waves of your vast mind and spend a few minutes underneath. The philosophy of life is to realise that our mind is the most fascinating thing in the world, for the sole reason that it can create. Read below to get answers to questions you didn’t know you had, or even to just let yourself ask questions of the world.
Do you believe in free will? Have you ever thought about the limits of freedom? Do you know about the Ship of Theseus Paradox? There are countless questions. Countless answers. We’ve got all life to figure it out.
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