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This 7 page paper answers questions in philosophy posed by a student. Q&A format is used. Various philosophers throughout the ages are discussed. Most of the questions concern independent thought as related to education and religion. Philosophers explored include DesCartes and Socrates. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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what readings does this quote apply for you? Comment on your ice and axe. The frozen sea is perhaps not what people are born with, but what society
creates. For example, in EST, Werner Erhard tried to tear down the programming society has done and other movements, inclusive but not limited to yoga, are methods of searching for
ones authentic self. The ice is equivalent to the personality as it has emerged with the help of societys teachings. This begins with the way in which one is raised.
People are given rules to live by and this comes from ones parents and all others that are a part of an individuals upbringing. Some rules, for example, are that
boys like trucks and baseball where girls are expected to like dresses and play with dolls. The rules of society that seem to give human beings a sense of who
they are, as well as to teach them right from wrong, become ingrained. Growing up in a certain religion provides one with beliefs, but these are given to one to
accept automatically. In fact, many people go around preaching what they learn in church, but rarely question the meaning of the teachings. They are, instead, robot-like in that they do
what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, people should have their own ideas, something that John Locke highly recommended. Locke (1690) claimed that
ideas come from two things, which are experience and thinking. Hence, embracing ideas because one is told renders an individual void of ideas. If the block of ice is what
people have been made to be, and something that sits inside each and every human being, then philosophy is the axe that one can use to chip away at some
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