I think, philosophy... perhaps, that there are no philosophical problems. Not really. Not like Wittgenstein's thinking, that there are just linguistic puzzles, but that all the important questions — that they all have answers. Really, I think so. I think the meaning of life is love, for instance. That this has always been so, that it will always be so. (Some crass souls may say no, that it's to perpetuate the species, but I say that animals are meant to procreate: we're here to love.) You get shoved in your face time and time again that love is the answer. So much so that you don't want to hear it anymore, and you brush it aside for the hundredth time without really considering that there might be something to it. That something so simple, that everybody knows about, could really be the meaning of life. Couldn't be, could it? Why is everyone still asking, then, if it's right in front of their nose? It is "We don't notice that miracles happen every day simply because they happen every day." It's so obvious no one takes it seriously.
People are still asking what they were asking thousands of years ago. They're just phrasing it in different ways, and this only sometimes. Then they either say that the question is faulty or give some answer that someone else always finds an exception to. And some of these questions are serious problems, and make one wonder how people go on, how they hold it together and get through life. But yet, they do. This leads me to believe that either the problems of philosophy are not as serious as they seem, or that somewhere in each of us — even as we're asking the question — we have some idea of its answer. And no, I'm not talking about Plato's amamnesis, that you're remembering what you learned before you were born, but that people have answered these questions at one point or another, especially in the case of what they mean for themselves. Sometimes, though, we can't believe that the answers could be so simple; so we pull and pull at it, until it ultimately unravels, and then say, "See?"
myraj
8:31pm tuesday, 20th july
You are correct sir. We don't look to what's in front of our face because that would just make it too easy.We want the answer to be as difficult to find as we expect it to be. We should all look at the obvious but as I said; that would be too simple.
myraj