A philosophy for everyday life is, in other words, an investigation of the raw reality of life, philosophy is necessary because—this is my claim or thesis—we still have not tasted life in all its richness. We tend to cling on to certain norms or ideals in a way that does not honour our own experience and intuition. At worst our life becomes an imitation, image or representation of more authoritative ideals. An image is a copy, that is, a simulation of the real reality. We have lost contact with life because we follow ideas or images of how life should be. We live our life as an imitation of a moral model, as if such a model was not just another human artifact.

1. Subject – Philosophy
TOPIC –Role of philosophy in
all aspects of human life &
society

2. What is philosophy?
logic (the study of good reasoning),
epistemology (the study of knowledge),
metaphysics (the study of reality), and
ethics (the study of morality).
study
(1)it can help improve critical thinking skills and
(2) it’s a good way to know certain things. Even so,
much more can be said—especially considering
each specific thing philosophy can teach us.

3. Philosophy
2 sense
Formal
the informal
sense, as a
personal
philosophy, whose
focus is resolving
the existential
questions about
the human
Informal
philosophy is an
academic study
of the fields
of aesthetics, et
hics, epistemolo
gy, logic, metaph
ysics, as well
as social and poli
tical philosophy.

4. Reasons why philosophy is important:
• All human beings orient their lives around ideas about what reality
is like, that they believe explain their experiences, and ideas about
what reality and human beings should be like, that they use to
guide their behaviour. The first of these kinds of ideas is a
metaphysical theory, the second an ethical or moral theory.
• Human beings seem to need metaphysical and moral ideas because
they are not born with instincts that determine for them what they
should think and want, and are born with the capacities to make up
their own minds and to question any belief they have or meet.
• It is evident that most of the ideas in history that people have used
to explain human experiences have been false or unfounded in
many respects, and it is also evident that most of the ideas in
history or direct human behaviour have been harmful to other
human beings or to themselves.

5. • On the other hand, it is also evident that whatever adequate
understanding people have of themselves, of others, and of their
environments and possibilities, is based on the asking and answering of
the type of general questions that are philosophical and scientific, and
that there seems to be no way of being human without trying to ask and
answer such questions.
• All ideas about philosophy or science, including those that ridicule or
condemn philosophy or science, are themselves philosophical ideas, and
such as declare all philosophy useless, trifling, or impossible are little
better than a refusal to do any serious philosophical or scientific
reasoning.
• The ideas people live and die for, go to war for and kill each other for, or
let themselves be inspired to the making of great art or science, are all
philosophical ideas.
• The lives people lead and the choices they make are the result of the
philosophies they hold, whether they are conscious of this fact or not.

6. • Much of the history of the 20th century - "The Century of
Total War", in Raymond Aron's apt phrase, which is the title
of one of his books - is the more or less direct product of a
small number of philosophical ideas and the philosophers
who made them up: Marxism ruled the lives of more than a
1000 million people; Fascism destroyed the lives of millions
of people and caused a World War; both Marxism and
Fascism were opposed by men in the name of Liberalism,
Democracy, Catholicism, Protestantism, or Science, each of
which are themselves either specific philosophies or
derived from more comprehensive philosophical systems.
• While men like Marx and Nietzsche in their own lives may
be regarded as unsuccessful, their ideas and values, or
rather what was made of these by -proclaimed followers,
have in the 20th century created and destroyed civilizations
and the lives of millions of human beings.

7. Ideology, religion and philosophy
• Literally millions of people have been murdered in this century and other
millions of people have been sent to concentration camps for what were,
in the end, crude philosophical ideas (of the Marxist or Fascist variety,
often).
• All supposedly 'practical' men, whether they did the killing in the name of
a philosophy or were the victims of men acting out a philosophy or stood
at the side gawking while declaring all philosophy useless or nonsense,
were as philosophical - in the sense of being moved by general arguments
about what the world is and should be and how human beings should
behave - as any man, except that these supposedly 'practical' men were
less conscious of that fact.
Guides and misguides the lives of human
beings, and every human being meets daily
with many philosophical ideas, and makes or
avoids many of his daily choices by appealing
to and relying on philosophical considerations.
Philosophy's everyday
appearance, which is a
political or
religious ideology,

8. • In any case, it is an illusion to believe that philosophy only pertains to the
goods of the mind or only is of importance to a few intellectually gifted
and curious individuals:
• whatever happens in society and whatever human beings consciously do
and do not do to others and for themselves is based on general ideas and
values that are very properly speaking philosophical, and this has been so
since human beings started to think.
• And part of the reason is that all men need to answer the questions what
there really is, what they should and should not do, and why they believe
they know things. These questions cannot be answered by any special
science, and must be somehow answered by all human beings.
• Also, it is important to recognize that the philosophies that influenced
much of the history of the 20th Century, Socialism and Fascism, were - at
least in practice - dangerous delusions, and that indeed the same holds for
religions, that tend to be beliefs that are held in irrational and fanatical
ways, and tend to be very dangerous for those of a different belief. (This
last fact should give people pause who believe in an all powerful and
benevolent deity. It seems to me that the most a believer in God is
entitled to claim, within reason, if this is possible, is that he believes in
something that is totally beyond human understanding.

9. • A philosophy for everyday life is, in other words, an investigation of
the raw reality of life, philosophy is necessary because—this is my
claim or thesis—we still have not tasted life in all its richness. We
tend to cling on to certain norms or ideals in a way that does not
honour our own experience and intuition.
• At worst our life becomes an imitation, image or representation of
more authoritative ideals. An image is a copy, that is, a simulation
of the real reality. We have lost contact with life because we follow
ideas or images of how life should be. We live our life as an
imitation of a moral model, as if such a model was not just another
human artifact.
A philosophy for everyday life tries to
overcome seductive simulations and
beliefs that the truth is certain,
unchangeable, and universal.

11. Conclusion
• Although many people are unconvinced that that
philosophy is important, I think there are good
reasons to think it is important.
• Philosophy can not only help improve critical
thinking skills, but it can help provide us with
knowledge of logic that can greatly help improve
critical thinking.
• Moreover, I do not find the view that philosophy
makes no progress and provides us with no
knowledge to be plausible based on the fact that
it seems clear that everyone knows something
about at least one philosophical domain (logic),
and some people know more about that domain
than others.