Monday, September 15, 2008

Post 3

There was a philosophical question that i heard about, and while searching for an attachment to post i found this quote:

"Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogma's and one's axioms."

This quote really kinda deals with what we've been talking about, especially skepticism. You have to be able to question others, and even question your current beliefs in order to correctly understand the "truth."

2 comments:

Paul Layne said...

Hey thanks for your comment on my blog I appreciate you taking the time to encorage me that way, and it's nice to know that I have a sister in christ in the class

brett said...

yeah, that is a really good quote about philosophy. I agree that philosophy really does start when we doubt things that we have been told our whole life and begin to question things we normally would not