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Philosophical Reflection 1

This document outlines a process for philosophical reflection that involves crystallizing an experience, identifying an appealing idea or teaching, highlighting its significance through a personal example, drawing an insight, and making a response. It provides an example of applying this process to reflections on pursuing happiness and a good life. The insight drawn is that while pursuing wealth is not wrong, focusing only on money fails to fulfill greater human needs for communion, peace, and love.

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Philosophical Reflection 1

This document outlines a process for philosophical reflection that involves crystallizing an experience, identifying an appealing idea or teaching, highlighting its significance through a personal example, drawing an insight, and making a response. It provides an example of applying this process to reflections on pursuing happiness and a good life. The insight drawn is that while pursuing wealth is not wrong, focusing only on money fails to fulfill greater human needs for communion, peace, and love.

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PHIL 01: PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

Philosophical Reflection Crystallize an experience


Φ
Identify a particular idea or teaching in the theory that
appeals to you in a special way. For example:

Plato advocates that the virtuous man is the


rational individual who is truly happy. He explains the
human condition using the charioteer analogy. Reason, like
the charioteer, must be given the right to govern the
irrational components of spirit (good horse) and appetite
(bad horse) because passion cannot distinguish between
what gives higher or longer-lasting happiness and what only
seems to provide this . . . And reason must possess true
knowledge. One cannot be a moral man if he bears this form
of ignorance.

Highlight its significance

Recall a personal incident that the experience addresses. Let


the idea happen to you; let it become your own.
For example:

In a few months I shall graduate and I already


started to submit my resumes to prospective companies. I
asked my mom once, “Mama, saang companies n’yo ako
gusto mag-apply?” Without missing a heartbeat, she replied,
“Kahit saan, basta malapit sa bahay, at may pinakamataas na
sweldo.” I was expecting a different answer so I asked her,
“Hindi ba dapat sa kung saan ako masaya?” And she
explained, “eh, kung gusto mo nga pero wala ka namang
pera, hindi ka rin naman sasaya d’on. Pag may pera ka,
sasaya ka rin.”

Draw an insight

Learn a lesson that will apply to your personal incident and


which you can profit from. For example:

There is nothing wrong with wanting the good life


per se . . . However, is this what it means to live? Are we
human made to work for money, the eventual key to a good
life? While there is nothing wrong about wanting to be rich,
we fail to be virtuous when we blindly pursue to be rich,
making everything else secondary. We all aspire for a life of
money, thinking that this is the key to a good life, but there
is more. . . There is the happiness that springs from a
satisfaction of greater human needs like communion, peace
and love that are priceless and irreplaceable.

Make a response

Resolve to do something good. Allow the insight to make a


difference in your life. For example:

I can’t blame my mom for wishing me the best in


my career. But I will have to disagree with her on what
considerations I prioritize in my choice of companies to
apply for. My reflection has certainly made me think about
“If there is no INSIGHT, then the EXPERIENCE is what direction I am going to take in the next months. I have
not REAL; if there is no RESPONSE, then the to love what I do, and what I do must help me unleash my
SIGNIFICANCE is not TRUE.” potential, and propel me towards becoming the best person
I can be. There is more to life than money.

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