I am sure you all know about philosophy, you all have an idea of what it is and who are philosophers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But did you know that you have already done some philosophy at one point or another? Because philosophy isn\u2019t a discipline only for old wise men and young idealists, it\u2019s for everyone, we\u2019re all philosophers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You have probably asked yourself, or discussed with others a philosophical question without knowing it because all questions that can cause a problem, that create reflections and other questions are philosophical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it can be on an extremely wide range of subjects, ourselves, the other, time, history, politics, happiness\u2026 So you see that there is a great chance that you have already had philosophical thoughts. There is a persistent clich\u00e9 about philosophy stating that philosophers write about their own times so that what they\u2019re saying doesn\u2019t apply to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it is completely false, an antique philosopher doesn\u2019t only talk about antiquity, he talks about humankind, he talks about us. And despite all the technological advances, human nature doesn\u2019t change, we still talk about consciousness, the definition of time, we still don\u2019t have an absolute consensus on what is moral and what is not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first thing we\u2019re told when we start studying philosophy is that we have got to read a philosophical text as if it\u2019s talking about me, and it is true because we are all part of humanity, and despite what we tell ourselves, we\u2019re all part of the masses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If most philosophical questions don\u2019t die out and become obsolete, it is true that there are always new ones emerging, because science and our knowledge of the world is always evolving, we now have questions about Artificial Intelligence, data protection or transhumanism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But you\u2019re probably asking yourselves what is it doing there, why is LearnBlue talking about philosophy? Well, as I said, we can find contemporary problems in the old philosopher\u2019s texts, as old as Plato or Aristotle, and most of those problems are treated in the SDGs, education, equality, justice, poverty, ecology\u2026 We can find all of this while reading Plato, Kant, Karl Marx, Rousseau, Montaigne, Hannah Arendt and many others that I am going to make you discover through this new chronic on our blog: Philosophy for a Better Future<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A title which perfectly embodies what I believe is the ultimate objective of Philosophy: trying to figure out how to make humanity and our societies grow in morality, in sustainability, in maturity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With this column, I am going to teach you about philosophy and sustainable development, and I am going to debunk another very persistent clich\u00e9 about philosophy: its uselessness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, spoiler alert, it\u2019s not. Philosophy can change your way of looking at life, change your way of being, make you more tolerant, give you ideas to live by and make you care about others, and it can promote a sustainable way of life, as I will show you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So through this new column, at least once a month, I will present a philosophical question, treat a great philosophical theme and\/or make you discover a great philosophical theory, all of it linked to the SDGs. And I will try to transmit what you could call Philein Sofia, the love of wisdom, which made the word Philosophy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philosophy is for all, asking key questions that shape our understanding of life and society.\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_masonry":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,67,105,78],"tags":[56,95,109,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-5037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-climate-action","8":"category-education","9":"category-opinion","10":"category-society","11":"tag-changemaking","12":"tag-circular-economy","13":"tag-short","14":"tag-youth-leadership","15":"cs-entry","16":"cs-video-wrap"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5449,"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions\/5449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnblue.org.ng\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}