What is your personal philosophy?
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What is your personal philosophy?
What is your personal philosophy? Why did you choose it? How did you choose it? What advice can be given to those who seek one?
I am curious to hear what others have to say about this... (now I am adding words just because the post is telling me, "too few words soooooooo")
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Re: What is your personal philosophy?
Sapere Aude.
Stay critical.
Watch out for flim-flam and mystical BS.
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Re: What is your personal philosophy?
I don't think there's anything special about it, rather it's how to accomplish it, namely if you understand other people's motivations you can predict their behavior, which allows you to position yourself to be at an advantage in all interactions.
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Re: What is your personal philosophy?
A philosophy is a coherent system of thought which is why I don't have a "personal" philosophy. However since every verbal expression needs a conceptual framing I do have conceptual framings depending on contexts and further conditions.
This is my current "personal" philosophy. There is no "why" and "how" because what appears just appears. Also I don't know why I should give advice or why I should be able to give advice. What happens just happens.
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Re: What is your personal philosophy?
For me, I'd say try to be good, try to be kind, try to be humble, try to be objective. If you succeed to any extent, ironically, in the process, you will understand that you have failed in many aspects. Expect to learn and change and try to keep your eyes open to your own past and present failures if you wish to improve. Some of the best and most useful ideas I've found were in Stoic and Existential philosophy, but there is almost always something useful in any set of ideas.
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Re: What is your personal philosophy?
I have no one philosophy, in that sense. After I became interested in philosophy, I read all kinds of stuff. When I came across an idea I liked, I stole it and added it to my slowly-growing collection. I never really bothered about where the ideas came from, I just cherry-picked the best ones. The result, my current collection of liked-ideas, is my 'philosophy'.
I don't really like the idea of following one 'school' of philosophy — Analytic Philosophy, for example — because it's too limited and limiting. As I said, I take ideas from anywhere I find them. Accepting the doctrine of a school nearly always involves accepting some ideas you don't really believe, because of your membership. I find that ... unacceptable.
"Who cares, wins"
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