“What the hell is a Hegel?”
“Dude, that’s the philosopher’s name. Your personal philosophy is philosophic history.”
As I read the description, “You’re not right, but neither am I. You understand that the world is made up of opposing ideas, and no person is 100% correct. This is Hegel’s idea on thesis (the original idea), antithesis (the opposing idea), and finally, synthesis (the truth). We’re all just looking for truth in the world, and using the past to help us understand the present and the future,” I began to notice how easily people believed in this apparent nonsense.
While I understand that this is just an educated guess on our beliefs, how is it possible that people easily accept their philosophy from a fifteen question quiz, where half of the questions would never happen in reality? Personally, I have no clue what I would do if I saw a man about to jump off of a bridge or if some person came up to me and said, “God does not exist anymore! You have all been duped!” I mean, have I really been duped? Or is this person the crazy one?
After discussing with my team however, I realized this “educated guess” about my personal philosophy was indeed relatively accurate. As a representative of Hegel’s beliefs, I am the type of person to question everything to find the truth. By breaking down and criticizing these questions, which at first I thought were beyond ridiculous, I was able to understand why I share similar beliefs with Hegel. My curious desire for truth and understanding had inadvertently proven my personal philosophy to myself.
Even though I may be over thinking the whole situation, I am a Hegel: I do this to understand and find truth in society.
~ Simon L.
I share similar views in that at first glances how could a 15 or so question test tell me what my philosophy is. Though the questions were odd and somewhat unyielding to their purposes they did prove to fabricate an educated guess of what my philosophy is most near.
ReplyDeleteJosiah K.
Hi Simon,
ReplyDeleteI know the Philosophy quiz wasn't necessarily "scientific," but I thought it might give you guys a good starting place.
I really like that you were skeptical, but willing to learn. Your discernment combined with your curiosity is one of the many reasons I like ya so much!
Well really any philosophy test with multiple choice cannot be 100 percent accurate, because sometimes our answers are not there. However, they can give a general idea. The fact that your results were the "thesis, antithesis" stuff is acutally slightly reflected in your blog. Just the fact that you believe it could be true, but could be off shows the idea of Hegel's philosohy. I guess when it comes down to it, it really doesn't matter-because as you said it's just a guess-but it's really human nature to explain the unexplainabl;e isn't it. That's why studying these philosophys are important, because they can help us in our search of our truths and beliefs.
ReplyDelete-Alicia M.
Yeah, it really is hard to completely rely on a test taken on the Internet, where there are billions of different ways the truth can be obscured, to give us an exact approximation of what we believe in. Of course, only we ourselves can really learn that; that's one of the inevitable consequences of growing up. I think everyone's always looking for the truth, but it's also a possibility that you can't find the complete truth in one single thing. The funny thing is, I was "diagnosed" as a Hegel too, and I was very skeptical, but this skepticism and desire for the pursuit of truth is exactly what made the test accurate: exactly what happened to you and some others. We still have a long way to go, and as an idealist, I'm sure we will find just the answers to the questions we've been asking.
ReplyDelete-Lian C.
I get what you mean by feeling skeptical about the whole online test but the weird thing is how closely the test results seemed to reflect us. Maybe we just all want to believe that some test out there actually can understand us, or maybe we each are that predictable because we can reveil ourselves eaier to a computer than to another person.
ReplyDelete