A particularly fascinating discipline or field of study is certainly philosophy. Accepted synonyms are reasoning, thought, wisdom, knowledge. So, classical philosophy has to do with the mind. No practical purposes, no goals to be achieved, no material benefits: only the pleasure of "thinking". Its abstract aim is to ask questions about reality, existence, transcendence, metaphysics etc. The interesting thing is that no final answer is ever given, because there actually is no final answer. Such mental elucubrations about the nature of things, the meaning of life and the like cannot be defined once and for all. Each thinker has their own personal vision of what is, of what we are, of what this all means. In our world, so conditioned by the media, by the need to do and have 'more', not many people are interested in philosophy. They find it a useless waste of time. Because-they believe-time should only be used to acquire wealth, success, fame, pleasure, emotional fulfillment. Spiritual endeavor-they believe-doesn't yield any practical benefit. Amen.
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