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Thursday, October 28, 2010

All Jumbled up and Crazy

To be honest I am really trying to understand philosophy. I wish now that I had taken the Intro to philosophy class that everyone else apparently has. As I read this text I continue to get lost in the arguments...But one thing I was reading last night in Book 3 was kind of interesting in a twisted way.
Socrates is talking about the relationships between an older man and younger man similar to a mentorship except not at all like the mentoring at my church. As we were talking about in class the other day about your parents influencing your believes similarly it sounds like these older men influence the young boys ideas. This is interesting to me especially in light of the idea of searching for some deeper truth. It makes me wonder if one needs to go on a journey for truth alone or with company. And if its okay to have an older mentor person influence your perception of truth. Hopefully, a well rounded individual would take the advice and opinions of all the people around one's self and think about all the sides before deciding on their own opinions and thoughts, which also might require having a standard for their own ideas of truth....
It really just seems to me like this truth stuff takes a whole lot of effort.











PS I commented on Amy's blog.

2 comments:

  1. It seems like Truth is one of the hardest subjects for me. I struggle between what my parents told me was true and what my peers tell me is true,and what the world tell me is true. I believe this is familiar ground for most people our age, and older. Then there's the saying, "Your truth is different from my truth." What? I feel jumbled up too. Sunday School tells me the Bible is the ultimate Truth, yet different Christians interpret the Bible differently. What is Truth. Who's truth? I feel as if I'm going in circles.

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  2. Even though I am taking Intro to Philosophy, yesterday's readings really messed with me, too. I kept reading and re-reading. I still don't have much knowledge on what I read. As for your ponderings, I think it is wise to journey on your own and along the way, meet with others going in the same direction, but knowing you won't always be going that direction together. God reveals truth to all of us in different ways, so we can't always expect to have others with us.

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