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 I often don't understand my own desires and can't make decisions. What should I do? @Mochio As I wrote in "First Philosophical Thinking", "knowing yourself" is, first of all, "knowing your own desires". What exactly do I want to do and how I am happy to live. However, finding this desire is surprisingly difficult in modern times. In today's free society, people say, "You can do anything, you are free to do anything," so you don't know what you want to do. There are times when I feel that it is a problem. Many of today's children turn on the heater before they feel cold, turn on the cooler before they feel hot, and turn on the TV before they think it's boring. That means that the power to notice one's desires, and even the quest for how to satisfy them, has been castrated by adults, so to speak. In such an era, how can we regain the ability to notice desires and the inquisitive mind to satisfy them? In "First Phil...

 Philosophical words are like vaccinations. Occasionally, I think about that. I feel that it is not a clever word that penetrates the body like a bullet, but a word that gradually spreads throughout the body without knowing it. "Philosophy life counseling" is not such a bad thing, but I think it would be nice if I could spun such a word like a vaccine below. It may not always have immediate effect. But in the long run, I'm sure that your immunity will be improved, and I hope that you will have such a life consultation. This time, the first time, we will answer four consultations. 1. 1. What on earth am I living now !? @Masaki Why do we live when we die anyway? @ Milk green juice The 19th century German philosopher Nietzsche said this (a little erratic). There is no ready-made correct answer in the meaning of living. Create it yourself!  When. The meaning of life is not something that is "preliminarily" rolling somewhere in the sky beyond the mountains, in the ho...

 Is that right? Is this correct? The beginning of philosophical thinking. The second point is that it does not get caught in the "magic of questioning". "The magic of questioning" is a so-called binary opposition question. For example, such a question. "Is education for the happiness of children? Or is it for the survival and development of the nation?" I myself don't like to mock people with this "magic of questioning", so when I talk about this in class or lectures, I don't ask them to raise their hand which one they think is right. However, if you ask "Yes, who you think is for your child?" And then ask "Who do you think it is for your country?", "Magic" will be even more effective. Yes, when asked, "Which is right over there or here?", We tend to wonder which one is right. Many readers may have thought, "Hmm, maybe it's for children?" "No, it's for the country." Howev...

 Before I tell you the "mystery" of philosophical thinking, this time I would like to talk about the way of thinking that is one step ahead. There are two points. Once, "What is the reason for studying? --I wrote it in the book "How to Make Our" Answer "" (Nihon Hyoronsha), but here I would like to restate it from a slightly different angle. One is that it does not fall into the "generalization trap". The other is that you can't get caught up in the "magic of questioning". This time, I would like to talk about the former first. 1. 1. Generalization trap Be careful of "experience" First, let's think about the following themes. In our society, there are times when the difference in the family in which we were born makes a big difference in our social status. Because I happened to be born in a rich family, there are people who have been blessed with various educational opportunities from an early age and have achieve...

 Last time, I talked about the difference between philosophy and science. In a word, philosophy explores the essence of the human "world of meaning". One science reveals the mechanism of the "world of facts". Contrary to what many believe, the "world of meaning" actually precedes the "world of facts". There is an objective "world of facts", and humans do not attach "meaning" to it. On the contrary, the "world of facts" can exist for us only when we are caught in the antenna of our "world of meaning". In that sense, philosophy supports science from its roots. Unless we understand the essence of the "world of meaning," we cannot know the "world of facts" in depth. Conflict over "facts" However, science usually does not have to think about such troublesome things. For the time being, all of us recognize (believe) that things will fall if we let go, or that the earth is orbiting th...

 Last time, religion explained the world with "myths", while philosophy pursued "confirmation possibilities". I told you that it is what you want. But isn't that a "science" job now? Modern science is at a level that is incomparable to ancient Greek philosophy. Does that mean that philosophy has been replaced by science today? No, that's not the case. Philosophy, both now and in the past, is actually the foundation of science. ――At the end of the last time, I talked about that. What exactly does that mean? What is the difference between philosophy and science? This time, I would like to answer these questions. Know thyself The ancient Greek philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes introduced last time are generally called "natural philosophers". Literally, what kind of mechanism nature works by, the principle of "thinking" through observation rather than "myth" Those who tried to reveal by. The etymolog...

 At first, religion and philosophy were thinking about almost the same questions. For example, why does the world exist? How did you do it? Why do humans suffer so much? How can I escape from this suffering? And so on. Religion gave answers to these questions in the form of "myths". For example, according to the Jewish and Christian scriptures "Old Testament", the world started when God said "light." In the religion of the ancient Sumerian civilization about 5,000 years ago, it is said that the world began when the goddess Nammu, the "primitive water", gave birth to the god of heaven and the god of the earth. Like Sumer, the myth that the world was water at first is in various religions. There is also a myth all over the world that the present world was created by separating the heavens and the earth. In the ancient religion of Japan, the world is said to have started from the separation of heaven and earth. According to a great religious scholar...