Excerpts of Thought
For the past 8 or so months I’ve been gathering little notes on a few subjects that interest me greatly. I plan on placing these into my thesis for when I’m a Senior at college. Right now I’ll be entering into my second semester Junior year but have already started on this.
Right now I’m split on doing two things for my thesis (or, if possible, doing a combination to make into one). One is writing on the “Philosophy of Emotion”. This thesis will focus on how emotion and feeling helps our subjective understanding of the world through our human experience and how it is vital for us as human beings. I’ve seen emotion too downplayed in a lot of philosophy (mostly western) and feel that no one has really written extensively on the subject. Logic and Reason are put on thrones in the world of philosophy but I feel that such thrones should be shared with Emotion and Feeling as well. They serve as a basis for motivation, fuel our concepts of when we finally settle on things and ideas, and help shape our world so that we can contrive deeper thoughts. These are all major focuses that I want to touch on.
The second is more personal in which I will discuss how, throughout my life, before I even knew what “philosophy” was, I’ve been using it as a means to help people. I want to be a therapist (preferably a child therapist) some day and philosophy, more so than psychology, more so than sociology, has helped me with that (I’m not trying to downplay either of the latter subjects, I’m simply saying what has done more for me personally). Philosophy serves to understand something, to question and reason. Imagine, if you will, if you could communicate with someone, learn how they see the world through their eyes as best to your ability, and then you can learn to understand the problems they face for themselves and better help them through it. I want to write a thesis on this as well since I feel that philosophy is played off as not being practical for any means, but one thing philosophy helps teach us is how to think and do so effectively.
In the end, I’ll probably do the latter since it better deals with what I wish to major in once I go to graduate school (Social Work, in which I will be able to get a Therapy License). However, I have no qualms about combining them into one thesis if I found a good enough way of doing so.
And in all seriousness, I hope to make these into actual books to put into publishing. For years I’ve done poetry and wanted to publish it, I still want to, but these ideas, these thoughts, these are words I wish to focus on right now.
Just something I thought I’d share with all of you.
