For studying hard for that subject- philosophy
Although the term philosophy alone gives them headaches, makes them smile or, on the contrary, leaves them cold, not telling them anything, the truth is that we do not want to reach either of these "goals," but to prove or understand, as we say from the very title of this essay, the need to study philosophy in schools, and when we say schools, we do not think only of universities (although we give it right to Marinoff altogether), not only in high school, but even in the younger years, let's say starting with the 7th grade. We would like you not to a priori treat this topic as stupid; after we have delimit both the meaning of what philosophy means and the direction of its study, we hope that we will not be so badly understood, or even more, that our idea will grasp the outline of reality.
After all, the 7th grade does not mean that our age is 13 years or older, maybe 14, maybe 15 years. Ages in which adolescents have already formed a cognitive base for understanding some of the introductory notions of philosophy. It is not, as will be seen later, not to teach philosophy to an academic level, but to familiarize them with a way of thinking. In fact, if we take into account the fact that in schools there is an emphasis on quantity, on the wealth of accumulated knowledge, then we can say that it will actually be the beginning to teach young people to learn to think and then to get acquainted with thinking, naturally. Afterwards, gradually, as it comes to advancing in high-school, high-school, the transition to other problems specific to philosophical meditation, but after all, life-threatening problems that our day-to-day lives and which our children will have .
In modern times, however, with the loss of land by religion, living in an increasingly intense, desecralized world, many contemporaries face an acute lack of meaning, with an immense inner void that they no longer have fill. Although they tried all the variants, neither the accumulated wealth nor the career achievements, to give just a few easy examples, could not fill this gap and put the big mud in which it sinks in the passing day.
People have always had questions, dilemmas, problems, troubles, annoyances. But never, as in our day, neurosis, stress or simply mental discomfort did not come to erupt so forcefully that they can not be compared to any known volcano. Because of these (those who profitely say thanks to them) there are today dozens of therapeutic schools, hundreds of methods and thousands, if not millions of therapists. And although we risk to offend many, the reality is that only a brawl among them really belongs to the field of therapy, and even a smaller part needs specialized treatment. The rest, the vast majority of them, although not yet (or rather, for some time, are no longer) re / known as such, are philosophical questions, questions which the philosophers have put and to which thousands have responded or hundreds of years.
Taught at a level appropriate to understanding their age, philosophy will provide a solid foundation, a virtually indestructible foundation for the construction of the subsequent building. Without claiming to have all the answers, philosophy creates, and this is most important, the most appropriate framework for each individual, no matter what field he will choose and where he will work in the future in life. Philosophy helps the individual become what he should be: man. That's where everything goes. If the society is made up of people (whose main characteristic, we repeat whenever we have the opportunity, is humane), then the world will turn itself into one in which it will be a delight to live, and it does not struggle like that is today without the need for any reform, without someone from outside trying to press and change us, which is also illusory, because change can only come from within. Changing the alienated world in which we live, the faulty system, the non-value, and the frustrating, we can all do. Everything can begin with the study of philosophy in schools.
