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How does philosophy help your mental health?
We found out that philosophy increases kids’ sense of autonomy (the ability to choose things for yourself) and decreases their anxiety. It didn’t make them feel more capable or give them a greater sense of belonging, though.
Does studying philosophy make you depressed?
Gets you through that so there's sort of dark anxious cosmic anxiety moments. So if doing philosophy does make you sad just remember that you're not alone and that happens to everyone sometimes.
How does philosophy impact our lives?
It helps us solve our problems -mundane or abstract, and it helps us make better decisions by developing our critical thinking (very important in the age of disinformation).
What are the benefits of studying the philosophy?
Benefits of Studying Philosophy
- The ability to think logically.
- The ability to analyze and solve problems.
- The ability to assess proposed solutions.
- The ability to write and speak clearly, attending to details.
How can philosophy affect my life as a student?
The study of philosophy enhances your ability to evaluate and resolve problems. It will help you to analyze concepts, definitions, arguments, and problems. It contributes to your capacity to organize ideas and issues, to deal with questions of value, and to extract what is essential from masses of information.
Can philosophy change your life?
Philosophy broadens the range of things one can understand and enjoy. It can give self-knowledge, foresight, and a sense of direction in life. It can provide special pleasures of insight to reading and conversation. It can lead to self-discovery, expansion of consciousness, and self-renewal.
How do you apply philosophy in your life?
Applying philosophy into daily living, it can definitely help me live a better life. It gives me the opportunity to improve how I can analyze and evaluate a situation or an idea, as well as, enhance my reasoning and critical skills, such as critical thinking, problem solving, proper judgement and decision making.
What is the main purpose of philosophy?
Philosophy overall aims to question assumptions we make about our lives and really dig in to the details of why we think what we think and how we choose to act. It can get complicated at times, but it can also help a person to see more clearly that there are other ways of looking at the world than is our habit.
How can philosophy help you succeed as a student in obtaining broad perspective in life?
Philosophy develops the capacity to see the world from the perspective of other individuals and other cultures; it enhances one’s ability to perceive the relationships among the various fields of study; and it deepens one’s sense of the meaning and variety of human experience.
What philosophy means to me?
Quite literally, the term “philosophy” means, “love of wisdom.” In a broad sense, philosophy is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other.
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