What Philosophers Want

Response to Justine - full post here


The philosophers are not some odd race of people, they too are people who, much like you, are trying to make sense of the world. Some people may not like to have their views changed but sometimes, I think, it is completely necessary. They don't want you to be unhappy. Most of them just want you to think and to do things that you actually want to do, but sometimes it takes lots of thinking to do. They want you to be happy and to see the truth which they think is fairly essential to being happy. Would you want to spend your entire life eating something that you didn't like, just because you didn't know that anything else existed? There is not just living life, you don't need to constantly think about everything you do, but as they come up you should consider them fully and then act accordingly. You don't need to plan anything out, really.