

Retired NYS trooper. Recently a Stringer for channel 9 WFTV. Now a citizen journalist reporting Port Orange Area News and Port Orange Police Radio Calls
But reconciling these ideas born of eternity with our daily decisions — when to wake up, what to eat, what to do today — is exceedingly difficult. Nevertheless, the quality of our philosophy hinges upon this very connection between eternal questions and practical actions.
Moreover, whether or not one explicitly reads or studies philosophy, anybody who thinks about how to live is a philosopher. And this is one of the primary misconceptions to dispel, that philosophy is only relevant to those explicitly interested in it. Philosophy is relevant to every single human alive. It lives not in books or complex ideas, but in the subjective experience of simply existing, and all of its subsequent curiosities, wonders, and perplexities.