The
first thing that comes to my mind when hear bout philosophy is “Atheist” That’s
how I know philosophy at the first but I’m totally wrong. Then when I come to
this class and begin with questioning this class, what is Philosophy? For what
purpose I learn this? Is it a logic process or just discuss a complicated
decision making process or find solution for a problem? Honestly, I have no
idea bout it, but then I try to figure it out from some resources and I got big
picture of it.
Philosophy
has existed since 7th century in Greece, before Socrates era; Philosophy
comes from west then expands to east. Based on The Story of Philosophy Book (Magee:
2001) Philosophy begins when human being started trying to understand the
world. Not through [1].
religion or by accepting authority, tradition, revelation, but
through the use of reason. Also at that time, want people to use their own
reason and think for themselves. Afterwards, these reason become the
fundamental of rational thinking which growth in human knowledge and
understanding. So, in my word, I see philosophy as a study about reveal mystery
of reality and existence. Which also explain bout relation between humanity, nature,
and society. Then Philosophy branch out
to: metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethic, and etc. Nowadays, philosophy
takes big part of this world; it is a subject that influences many things in
every field of activity such as: politic (democracy), religion, science, etc
As a
human, philosophy will help you to have critical thinking skills when you are
disagree, problem solving skill, and also changing the way of thinking and even
life because when you think and question it more and more, you will have
different perspective and changing your point of view unconsciously. Another
good point of conceiving philosophy is makes you more aware bout everything
because the basic of philosophy is questioning everything.
In
this modern era, philosophy as a guideline, which guide human to the life
changing. Understand philosophy in life will practice human to handle their
problem and try to solve it with the logic solution. Such as; apply philosophy
in work field, when HRD Manager is facing a serious problem between labor and
company, manager should find a solution that can be accepted to both: labor and
company. Probably manager can use philosophy and ethic try to solve it then make a the best decision for both.
At
last, How people see philosophy will depends on how the people put their
perspective in many angles, because people can’t see philosophy only on one
angle. As many as people can see the different angle, as many as it people will
come up with many the solution.
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