think this

heya bloggie~



i think im beginning to like philosophy.. really. im not being sarcastic here.

the teacher just gets me into the philosophiliii mood. her golden hair, her grandmotherly face, her wrinkled smile and o-so-ladeylike gestures.. makes me feel like its more of a storytelling class then boring philosophy. i know i seem stalker-like observing her like tat. but i just love sweet looking old people. ;p



well wat i realy wanted to share here was the questions she raised in class. really gets u thinking.



ok this might be a bit boring. but i wanna rite it down anyway hihi~



neway she was storytelling away about Plato, a great greek philosopher who first started questioning our reality. (i think if we dint have tv sets and the internet.. we'd be thinking about every little abnormality in our lives as well.. just to pass the time~)

well he asked.. "what is the really real?" (according to russianglish) or in normal speaking language.. "what is the true real?"



Plato concluded tat we cant trust our senses coz all tat is an illusion. He thought up that the idea we first have is our true reality. And that the product of our idea is only a copy of our reality.



confusing ryte????



lemme put it this way. if u were a carpenter.. n u felt like making a table one day, u'd have to think up wat kinda shape, size or colour u'd want it to be. Therefore an IDEA (the true reality) pops up. This idea we make into a product. TADA ---- a table(the copy of this reality).



Now.. i bring in this painter.. n this painter wants to paint tat table.

Therefore...........

he is actually making a COPY of a COPY!!



I KNOW~~~~~

wat is this crap.

but still if they dint think this up.. we might have never moved up in civilization. philosophy contributes to modernization in its own ways i guess.

*sigh* im self-consoling.

well till my next post

tata~