PHILOSOPHICAL ENTERPRISE: a reaction

What if a man does not act with his understanding? Does that mean that he does not value himself? Of course, for him to act morally, he must have in any way. However, that doesn’t answer that he had fully understood himself in the realm of this socially constructed world. Men continue learning. And with learning comes questions, which by the very fact did not start with an answer.


Pragmatic or principled subject matters could be divided; one asks himself what learning he could get in these questions. Yet the very fact that he initiated to question means he wants to know and have thus experienced what it means to say it. Now, does he ask to merely understand himself? Needless to say, one must learn what is being what which is found in the very core of questioning that he already understood something in regards to himself. In juxtaposition, it’s about oneself trying to understand before the meaning. That one must discipline oneself to ask inorder to know and understand his identity.


If we should ask ourselves then what’s the significance of questioning following that it would lead us to the realm of behavior and action profoundly, why must it be experientially authenticated? Simply, it is in ones validation of experience that one realizes his potentialities as a person. That he begins there. That whatever is his questioning maybe is the drive for him to know the truth. That philosophy is concerned with the truth in relation to the questioning self.


We come across now to the idea of the existence of philosophy. All thanks to the most personal of human endeavors. What are these anyway? Simply rephrasing the thought, what merely shapes philosophy depends on the human undertakings anyway, our accomplishments, our day-to-day deeds and action. That along with the movement of men, the innovations of men, philosophy is sustained through questioning and the philosopher’s quest for the truth per se. With the world existing, we need to learn indeed what is there and it is with the one who knows how to question only.


So, what can we do if the world before us has been constructed even before we know it? Precisely nothing but to abide with it. Rather than staying with that concept we learn to coincide with our minds that liberation is more essential than what is that pre-conceive notion in our society. Perhaps it is right to reiterate that “The very fact that a question arises, I am liberated from the chains of unquestioning acceptance of whatever is at hand”. Obviously, the very moment that we start to ask a question from whatever it is which aroused our curiosity is already an act which appeals to be liberating, for we do not hinder ourselves from questioning what might have been previously long accepted.


If it is not the self then who decides who he is, it’s always the majority; can the non-existence of those majorities unshackle his arrested self then? True enough, by detaching himself from the environment, his historicity and etc, the questioner may find a personal insurgency, which in effect he unbolts himself to a horizon of possibilities which he may engaged into. Just to not really divert his way of thinking rather to free himself from those hooks. It is in the more I cannot find myself with others, the more I find that I am.


The emphasis then is on the process, it was never how the society was structured in that way, and rather it resides on the essential recognition of its radically personal meaning found only in the identity of the questioner himself only which he understands.


In addition, to grasp that one’s life is one’s own unique task which is entrenched in the interpretation, communication and understanding of experience, is to admit that one should never stop building it in a way he comprehended it. That beyond his questioning and dynamism, his personhood is the precursor. To know and to actually do something about himself signifies his search for meaning rooted in self-questioning.


I definitely adhere to the view that the intensity of human venture and creativity is based upon the intensity of the quest for one’s identity and purpose. That within my existence I imply reasons, so question must I to further demand answers along the way. That my cunning to understand reflects upon how I convey my personhood. That the greatest impact of all these is to grasp what knowing implies about myself, that I’ll learn to discern more about myself as a focal point of these actions.


The enterprise of philosophy hence, is to understand oneself upon recognizing that his endeavor is to understand, interpret and communicate his experience embedded in self-questioning only. That one must never stop to question so he could learn, that his drive is for pursuing the truth more than all, to liberate what is imprisoning his being so to unlock his potentialities therefore. That though knowledge is explicit, we must seize what is within. All of these start not to attempt in answering but to take a posture with respect to one’s self and one’s condition – only found in philosophizing.