“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.” ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World

Philosophy is an academic discipline that exercises reason and logic in an attempt to understand reality and answer fundamental questions about knowledge, life, morality and human nature.

Philosophy and Ethics is an important part of our lives. We all have to make choices and accomplish goals therefore Philosophy teaches us to be reasonable in everything that we do. Being reasonable enables us make good choices, accomplish our goals, live a better life, and become better people. Being reasonable allows a person to think critically and analyze a situation better. It helps us sharpen our minds and not only does it increases our mental capability, it also helps us to be moral. Being moral is not only doing what is right and refraining from doing what is  wrong. Being moral means doing what is right in your eyes, what is right in the eyes of other people, in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of God.

As a student Philosophy helps me in many ways such as increasing my knowledge of things. When you are a student you need to have a insurmountable amount of knowledge in order to understand everything you need to learn each day. Philosophy has offered us the knowledge necessary to understand formal logic, develop natural science, discover highly plausible beliefs concerning being reasonable, highly plausible beliefs concerning morality, and more. Even the highly speculative areas of philosophy involving the nature of reality, mental causation, the nature of mathematics, the nature of morality, and controversial applied ethics involves a great deal of knowledge. Philosophy can help us learn how to think more creatively. Learning about the answers people have thought of to life’s greatest questions opens possibilities that you would have a very difficult time to realize on your own. Philosophers often contribute to the world by thinking in entirely new ways and offering entirely new answers—and you can learn to do so as well through example.

Philosophy is important because it helps you understand many things about life while having fun. Philosophy is very enjoyable and it helps us to be reasonable. It is important to be a reasonable and moral person. However, the knowledge we attain through philosophy is also enjoyable and perhaps even “good for its own sake.” It might be worthy of learning just because it’s a good kind of knowledge to have, even when it’s not used for anything. Philosophy is a great help in learning new things each day. We must continue to learn many things because as a great philosopher once said:

 "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing"

I agree with Socrates' line of thinking. When you say that you know nothing you will strive harder to learn more each day and when you say you have nothing  you still have space for new knowledge each day. Therefore, when you know nothing you should always strive harder and find out more about the world because  "Wisest is she who knows she does not know"

#Intro to Philosophy and Ethics