The tasks of philosophy

The tasks of philosophy do not fluctuate, in any way, from one period to another. It is basically the origin of all sciences. When there is less concern to obtain wisdom, philosophy, therefore, would aid a lot to crack this issue by what it has to teach. This theory raises the questions: what are the principles that philosophy is supposed to teach? Why it ought to be considered? And to what extant it is related to liberated learned man?

Actually, the value that philosophy does, or should teach, is the interconnection between its partial relation to thoughts and its partial relation to feelings. Philosophy should broaden the rational imagination, and free the mentality from the chauvinisms of what are ordinary people. These people are those who identify only material needs, and those who depend only on food, to feed their stomach. Besides, the value of philosophy teaches that feeding the mind is just as significant as the body. It is exclusively the goods of the mind that the value of philosophy is to be originated, and only those who are not indifferent to these goods can profit from the philosophical ideas.

Moreover, philosophy, which is the origin of all sciences, aims mainly to knowledge. It gives a way out door to separate our selves from the here and the now, from the moment and the space. Also, through the study of philosophy, it increases our awareness of comprehension, removes the stubbornness, and it keeps alive our sense of speculation by showing recognizable things in an unusual aspect. In addition, there is a widespread philosophical propensity towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that space, the moment, and the world of universals are properties of the mind. If there is anything not created by mind, it is unknown and of no accounts for us.

Up to this point, everything that depends upon a habit, self-interest, or desire, distorts the object, and therefore impairs the union which the intellect seeks. The intellectual will look at things from a perfection point of view. Out of moment and position and without hopes and fears, peacefully, for the sake of pure knowledge. Furthermore, free intellects will signify much more the abstract and universal knowledge, as such information, must be upon an limited and personal point of view and a body whose sense-organs distort as much as they reveal.

In conclusion, Philosophy is meant to be studied, not for the sake of finding response, but for the sake of subjects themselves. These subjects expand our idea of what is probable, supplement our intellectual imagination and reduce the inflexible assurance which locks the intelligence next to hearsay.
Abdelmalik Essaadi University
Abdelkrim Amrani
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