Philosophy to me is understood in many different ways, helping us to pos questions to ourselves, our elders, our educational systems, our way of living. Philosophy is a way to help in understanding history, of why believes are what they are today because of people that asked the questions of why we did things, or what the purpose of doing them was. I believe that philosophy is used in order to help us in our …showed first 75 words of 539 total…

…showed last 75 words of 539 total…is continually expanding the horizon of human thought.” (Garforth, 08/22/02) Nevertheless, the emotions remain in my view; the focus is on if we want to salvage something useful about existent values or do we have the right to change them? Can the questions that philosophy help conjure up help the community, the individual, or future generations by changing them or by keeping the values that are already in place? That to me is somewhat philosophy is.