The way I perceive the concept of something as simple as a tree is fundamentally different than the way every single other person perceives the “same” concept. This is due to our historically unique experiences with “trees.”
The memories we form influence our experience of perceiving trees. I may have fallen out of a tree and broken my arm. You may be blind and can only touch or smell a tree. I may have chopped down twenty trees to build a house. You may have crashed into a tree and totaled your car. The point is, every single historical interaction with a tree has formed a unique interpretation of “tree” in our psychophysiology.
The same thing applies to abstract concepts such as love, God, and philosophy. We each have historically unique experiences regarding these abstract concepts as well.
Which brings me to the point of this article: we should own up to the fact that we each have a devastatingly unique perception of all things, including philosophy. And rather than merely piggyback, kowtow, or place all our eggs into a single historical philosophy forsaking our individuality, we should make our individuality foremost and create our own philosophy out of the mulch, fodder, and compost of past philosophies.
We should double down on our uniqueness and fatten our individuality on the food of philosophies past.
Most
people settle upon one established philosophy (religion, ideology,
worldview), unaware that they have a unique perception of what that
philosophy is. It is already the case that we perceive the concept of
philosophy in a fundamentally different way than others do even within
the same philosophy. Developing our own unique philosophy is simply
becoming aware and honoring our unique perception....<<<Read More>>>...
