blazeofglory
08-01-2008, 11:45 AM
Philosophy, so they claim comes from schools. It is a product of disputations of or among different different scholars or Gurus and it has, for that matter been taken scholastically. Philosophy is everywhere, in rural settings too. I grew in a small village, remote from modern amenities. There were no roads, not even a village school nearby.I had to walk for miles. My mother was illiterate. My father had basic education. I was the only one to have got modern education.
However, I had a different environment there, not anything inferior to any formal educations system. We had discussions on philosophy notwithstanding the fact that any of us had got formal education or trainings on this.
The subject mostly centered around theological texts. I had some holy books, the Mahabharata, the Gita, the Ramayana in vernacular translations. We used to hold discussions for hours on different issues.
The point I want to put across here is that philosophy has a tradition of its own, not just books or schools. It is inherently embedded in all of us. We all are philosophers innately and we hold philosophical discussions everyday.
All of us want to know about the cosmos in relation to ourselves. People more often than not believe in immortality. I am for instance not an atheist in the sense of theology and mostly am critical of the mythological or theological notions of God, heaven, afterlife, rebirths and the like. Yet I believe in the universality of the soul.
We formalize philosophy, and try to confine it to textbooks, but unaware of the universality of it everywhere we become egocentrically self-centered.
In my villages almost all adult hold discussions despite the fact that the majority discussing it come from the strata of society wherein the percentage of illiteracy is above eighty percent.
I am an educationist, well-read or trained in different disciplines and sciences, academically advanced, yet I do not think I am the littlest bit more advanced than them when it comes to understanding issues related to God, heaven, an afterlife and the like.
From this I surmise that there are philosophies everywhere and the problem is with us for textualize it.
The tradition of philosophy is very old, not just the Hellenic epoch, indeed much older than that and the spread of it is just not confined to a few schools whereat it is taught formally.
However, I had a different environment there, not anything inferior to any formal educations system. We had discussions on philosophy notwithstanding the fact that any of us had got formal education or trainings on this.
The subject mostly centered around theological texts. I had some holy books, the Mahabharata, the Gita, the Ramayana in vernacular translations. We used to hold discussions for hours on different issues.
The point I want to put across here is that philosophy has a tradition of its own, not just books or schools. It is inherently embedded in all of us. We all are philosophers innately and we hold philosophical discussions everyday.
All of us want to know about the cosmos in relation to ourselves. People more often than not believe in immortality. I am for instance not an atheist in the sense of theology and mostly am critical of the mythological or theological notions of God, heaven, afterlife, rebirths and the like. Yet I believe in the universality of the soul.
We formalize philosophy, and try to confine it to textbooks, but unaware of the universality of it everywhere we become egocentrically self-centered.
In my villages almost all adult hold discussions despite the fact that the majority discussing it come from the strata of society wherein the percentage of illiteracy is above eighty percent.
I am an educationist, well-read or trained in different disciplines and sciences, academically advanced, yet I do not think I am the littlest bit more advanced than them when it comes to understanding issues related to God, heaven, an afterlife and the like.
From this I surmise that there are philosophies everywhere and the problem is with us for textualize it.
The tradition of philosophy is very old, not just the Hellenic epoch, indeed much older than that and the spread of it is just not confined to a few schools whereat it is taught formally.