My Reflection Of Philosophy: My Philosophy Of A Good Life

Philosophy can be described as a chance for a person to undertake an opportunity to understand themselves, our world and society, and relations between ourselves and one another. Those who are able to study philosophy can find out what is to be human, what kind of person is it good to be, and especially how are we to live a good life. I, myself, have had an opportunity to take a philosophy class and as my time in philosophy is starting to come to a close, I am suddenly realizing how philosophy has changed the aspects and my outlook upon my life.

When I had first signed up to partake in philosophy, I did expect to be bombarded with numerous amounts of famous philosophers such as Protagoras, Socrates. Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and much

Eudaimonia, in terms of good, is a subjective word. Not only from our textbooks have there been discussions about what the good life is to us. In the context of our lives, being able to live a good life depends on what we expect to come out of our lives and where we want to go in our futures. Personally, philosophy has helped me to identify my good life. Before the concept of a good life was introduced to me, my idea of happiness in my future was to have a fair amount of money to live comfortably in life without the fear of becoming being poor. However, after learning about the good life in the views of Aristotle, it is safe to say that the idea of my happiness has entirely changed. Money, although helpful, only causes pain. It seems to me that once you start to earn money, you will want more than what you need and you will grow to become greedy. I would rather live happily having a job that I love to do, wake up every morning to the same cup of cheap coffee, and read every day to my heart's content than to turn greedy for money. Moreover, money is not materialistic to me and cannot buy my happiness, so I will live by Aristotle's words and live my life with the intent of my actions leading to my happiness. Even so, my idea of a good life is nowhere near the same as another person’s. Statistically, with the population being 7.6 billion, opinions on what is good life differs for each

Not only is it an opportunity to understand ourselves, but we can also learn about teachings form different philosophers that we can apply to other people and in real world. Additionally, philosophy can teaches us the we are not as aware as we think we are. From all the concepts, theories, and teachings from different philosophers that I have been introduced to, I feel as if I still fetus that has yet to be introduced into the actual world. However, I am delighted that I had the opportunity to take a philosophy class and to gain a better understanding of how this world actually works. If it was not for this class, my perspective on how I view the world now would forever be lost in my unimpeded