A Philosophy Fulfilling The Purpose Of The Good Life
Philosophy as a guide to people’s way of life
Basic ideas of philosophy should be easy to understand and intelligible to common people, educated or uneducated since philosophy is a guiding worldview of society. If it is vague and heavy, it may not serve its entire purpose. It should be meant, in its fundamentals, for all people. It should be not only a theory for the specialists and but also a practice of the theory for the people’s good. Philosophy should seek the truth and make it fruitful in the affairs of the living beings.
It should be a guide to action not only for the people but also for the government of the country.
Bertrand Russell lists topics that philosophy speculates on in his History of Western Philosophy. I select three points of the list to examine from a humanist angle. I shall touch upon other points of the list later.
Three points
- “Is the world divided into mind and matter and, if so, what is mind and what is matter?”
Inanimate nature is matter. It is primary.
Humanism thinks that there is no division between mind and matter. Mind or soul or consciousness are embodied. Outside the human body, there can be no mind or soul, or consciousness. Mind is the…
