A Civil Rebuttal
...of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than
observational means.
Through this most specific definition given to us respectively by Sir
Webster's dictionary, I choose in my best interest to refrain to you just what
the meaning of philosophy is. I implore you to try and comprehend this matter
in what exactly this word brought abrupt to us is about. The word philosophy
has two definitive definitions. The first simply means to pursue, or strive for,
wisdom. I beg to differ in the understanding of the fault I make in trying to
gain this unprecedented knowledge.' The knowledge that we as a unity try to
strive for have made us, again as a unity, divides. I asked myself exactly how
we have achieved civilized chaos' in the search for our solutions and
resolutions of the very virus' it seems we have caused. I would not of course
go so far as to say a civil war between the generations within this house, but
moreover to express that simply by me using philosophy, it becomes not only my
benefit, but a mutualism between us.
Please feel more than obliged to correct me if I am incorrect (morally
or politically) but are we not all philosophers ourselves? As a baker's
vocation is to bake, a philosopher's vocation is to think. Is it not that we
all think? I was deeply saddened at your comments in the oppression and
restriction to what I may or may not strive to think. As a pacifist and non-
sadist, I call what you believe in as ingraining or indoctrination', whereas
our own society may call it brainwashing'. Our human nature gives us freedom,
as does the Constitution. It guarantees us the right to "life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness". Within the refines of this home, I find it a task to see
those liberties granted. Here is a few of the world's greatest oppressors: Jim
Jones, Adolph Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, David...
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