What is Philosophy? — A Personal Reflection

After a year of learning philosophy, I have realized that philosophy is not a usual study because instead of teaching new information, it shows students different ways of thinking. For example, people may be studying material they already know, but they will be looking at the information through a different lens. Philosophy requires unlearning rather than learning. It makes people go back to their childhood and grasp children’s limitless curiosity and love for learning. Most people believe that an answer to a question makes the question valuable, forgetting about the significance of the question itself. Thus…