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For anything manmade, from the tip of a skyscraper to the forehead kiss of a father to his child, they are the product of philosophy. Life can be translated to: philosophy. The question above therefore can be translated to: do you want to live (a happy life)? Though you can deny philosophy--simply allow the forces of reality to pull at your strings and wind your motor--the denial would require a mental process. A philosophy could be a rudimentary one, connotatively breath in short gasps, or it coulde be a complete system, analytically contextual like the oxygen atom itself. Philosophy is inexcapable--that is, if one is alive. To deny it, one must simply die, or be a vegetable in a coma.
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This means that one must identify what kinds of premises one has accepted. Have you accepted that premises cannot be accepted? Do you believe that convictions are impossible? Are you absolutely sure that you can never be sure? If you answer yes to any of these, or worse to all of them, then your self-refuting philosophy is probably Skepticism in the fields of Epistemology, Solipsism in the fields of Metaphysics, Relativism in the fields of Ethics, and so on and on.
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To identify the above as someone's convictions requires heavy thinking and mental organization. Most people don't even get there. With some, you can sum up their philosophy as hand-me-down socialization and indoctrination. One can live the life of a satiesfied puppet and allow the government to be up one's ass, in which case you're politically a Democrat. Or change the government with god, and you've become the worst kind of puppet. But no matter what you decide, your convictions have fueled them, even to deny it so.
So it is up to you...do you need philosophy? If you say no--well you can't. Or how else did you arrive at the no?
This is my personal homepage. You probably came in the door at Welcome To Apartment 8034. My name is Dennerick (Erick for short:) and I love Philosophy.
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