of Philosophy and Technology

Philosophy is about things that we already know – truth, knowledge, goodness, beauty, reality, reason, life, death, and more. It’s all about the things that are already there. It’s like the furniture that we have, the computer that we use and the car that we drive. So, if it’s the study of things that are already there, why should I care about it?

Using the furniture as an example, do you know what kind of wood was used and how much does it cost?  How about your computer? What OS are you using and can you manipulate it or does it manipulate you?  What is the make of your car? What’s the mileage and when is the last time you had it tuned-up? Do we ask these questions or we just use these ordinary things around us without any care?  If we ask these questions, we could look at this ordinary things in a different way, we could appreciate these ordinary things better than the “ordinary man” that only use these things.

Thru Philosophy, we could look at these realities in a different perspective. We could accept death better than someone who did not study the realities of life.  We could appreciate the real meaning of beauty because as students of Philosophy we have known what its absence means.

“It is by studying Philosophy, in a clear, step-by-step way, and by profiting from the thought of the great philosophers of the past, that one gains real insight” about the things that we thought we already know about.