“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

Major Lessons Learned in Philosophy

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.

I have learned a  lot of valuable lessons in our Philosophy class and one of those was knowing my purpose in life. For me, my real purpose in life is to be good at what I am right now and that is to be a good student, friend, sibling, and daughter. I believe that that is my real purpose in life for now. I know that purposes in life changes over time. I have my own set of beliefs. We should always trust in what we believe because our beliefs is what makes us, it is our image. When you believe something you live it and it becomes our identity- it becomes who we are. But one things I have learned is that we should always be mindful of other people's beliefs because that is who they are and we must always respect them and their beliefs because there is this thing called Cultural Relativism in which there is a view that one person's beliefs, customs and ethics are right in their own eyes. 

I have learned that if there is virtue in science, there is also science in virtue. Science in virtue literally means that in every virtue you do, there is science. When you do something virtuous, you apply the things you learn and where there is learning there is Science. Science and Virtue are two words that can change your whole life, from the way you think to the way you act towards yourself and towards other people. CEU not only helps your mind grow but it also helps you grow spiritually. We are not only trained to be smart and intellectual, we are morally challenged to do the right things scientifically. We are trained to have the knowledge but more than that we are raised to have wisdom which is the application of knowledge. The knowledge and the application of knowledge is the true meaning ofCiencia y Virtud.

I have learned that Man as a person can act on his own and make rational decisions in life. A man has his own free will and rights. Therefore, he is a person. The word person cannot be always be related to a human being because not all person can be considered as a human being, and not all human beings can be considered as a person. A man's person-hood should not be contrasted to man's humanity and individuality. The Person-hood and man's individuality manifest man's individual unique personhood. Personhood means pagkatawo or pagkatao and that it is easy  to be a person but it is hard to be human.

Man as a person has rights. I have learned about a person's rights which is stated in the country's book of laws. One of the laws is call Bill of Rights. It states every person's rights.