Olivia Grounds
Mrs. Wilhelmus
AP English Language
13 August 2013
Slightly Furry
There
were many different philosophers that were talked about in Sophie’s
World. Some of them I agreed with, while others were not exactly
my cup of tea. Every philosopher has his or, in some of the rare
documented cases, her own take on life. Darwin believed in survival
of the fittest while Plato believed that everything was based off a
perfect idea of that thing. In fact, everyone has their own idea on
what makes up life. Because of this, not everyone believes exactly
what another does. I agree with Locke's idea, but not the ideas that
were presented in “Fate”.
Locke
believed that our senses build upon each
other. It has been said that a baby only feels six main emotions
after they are born. These emotions are happiness, sadness, surprise,
fear, anger, and disgust. Now, I am not sure if those are the only
emotions that are the basic building blocks of feelings, but I do
believe that when we are born, there is a certain set of feelings
that are present. A baby will not know heartbreak until there is a
reason to feel that way. Sadness and anger may make jealously, but if
you throw in some surprise, that emotion might become heartbroken.
This feeds into Locke’s theory that there are complex ideas that
stem off of simple and basic ones. He believed that a person would
have a simple thought before building those simple thoughts into a
complex one. You have to know your numbers before
you can do anything with them. This ties into another of
Locke’s theories. He believed that there were two different
perspectives on life. The first is that some things can be redone
over and over again, while using the
same guidelines, and getting the same
results each time. An example is one plus two equals three. One plus
two will always equal three because it
is the way math works. The second perspective on life is the one that
can not be reproduced by each person. This could be the way something
smells to what is most enjoyable to listen to.
One
idea that I least agree with is the one presented to us in “Fate”.
I do not believe that fate is predetermined This
is that I believe is true because no one truly knows what is
going to happen to them a week from now, let alone what is going to
happen in their whole life. Sure, there is a general idea of what
is going to happen to them, say
growing old, but no one knows what is going to happen for sure. I
believe this includes what ever higher power is up there, too. If
they knew what was going to happen, then why let people die because a
person decides to rob a gas station? Why let someone continue on a
path, knowing that there is something bad at the end waiting for
them? If the higher power knows something bad is going to happen and
does not stop it, what does that say about their morals? I would not
want to follow a god, any god, that would not do the right thing.
Each
philosopher has their own view on the way certain things work. No two
people believe the exact same thing and think the same way. That
being said, I feel as though my beliefs are more closely entwined
with what Locke believes than with the philosophers in “Fate”. As
to where I sit on the rabbits fur, I believe that I sit on a little
of everywhere, because who knows where my thoughts on life are in the
grand scheme of things. I believe that everything has to start
somewhere, so why not use the basic building blocks of life? But to
what those building blocks are, I have no clue.
