Philosophy, Not For Everyone

Philosophy from the beginning to present has attempted to answer all aspects of questions. We have those ancient questions that concern with the fundamentals of life: the meaning of life, how to ascend from animal to human, how to lead a decent life, what is good and virtue, how to be happy, etc. Those that concern with the existence and entity outside of our sensors, namely God, spirit, consciousness, etc. To later, we have the epistemological questions concerning with philosophy or knowledge itself, such as what is knowledge and how it can be acquired. Or those that human heavily rely on, such as logic and language. Also, philosophy provides social perspectives: those like ethics, political philosophy and legal philosophy.

Before, I was mostly interested in ancient philosophy which teach me how to be a human more wisely. It is such a fundamental subject that lead me to think philosophy is for everyone. And another area I was interested in or precisely speaking I was deeply troubled by was consciousness which was what drag me into philosophy at the first place and into more troubles.

However, as I go deeper into philosophy recently, my love of wisdom did not fade away like many other subjects, instead it increased dramatically. Philosophy is not just about the question of how to live a meaningful life. Philosophy is not an ancient subject that should be abandoned. Philosophy provides suggestions to questions that not everyone has. People who don't have the question at the first place do not truly understand the question or what and why philosophy was trying to answer. Philosophy is not for everyone, even though some contemporary philosophers intend to replace religion with philosophy and culture. It is a great idea, and an ambitious idea. However, most people who would look at philosophy to solve their burning questions are more intelligent than the other. Less intelligent people may surely go for religion or even do nothing at all. Philosophy has not yet reach the standard of religion's organization and structure. It may take very long time to actualize this dream.

After all, philosophy concerns with a lot more questions other than the meaning of life. After all, philosophy has became a professional discipline like all the others: bioscience, geography, finance, and so on. The public will only care what it can bring out to the society as a result rather than the process, which is not philosophy's most important part. The most important part of philosophy is the process of searching, you learn a lot more from the process than from the result.

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