Personal Philosophy: A True Freethinker

We all have our own, somewhat unique and personal philosophy on life and its many facets. Its vital, i believe to our identity and overall individuality. It provides us a platform of values, and ideologies which serve as a guideline to how we live our lives. In short the way we think shapes us into who we are. The better our perception, the greater our reason, the deeper our thought, the more solid our understanding mean the more respectable our philosophy ultimately is. Our values become intune with our actions and thus the better the person you’ll be and the true freethinker you’ll become. That’s my philosophy on the matter at least!

We may sway whichever way we deem acceptable in our reasoning of various philosophies and ideologies. We may move backwards and forwards between contradicting philosophies, change and mould existing philosophies into our own version of whats right and acceptable or of more significance to us. Not all of us do this though even though we are on a constant road of change as we progress through life. Some philosophies in particular may stay with us, and even get further reinforced with greater understanding, reason and time. Just the same as some philosophies will get completely replaced with very different values and outlooks.We may take from various sources, as i do to add depth and further understanding of what we think.

Some of my favourite thinkers are Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Sartre and Albert Einstein and Ayn Rand, Richard Dawkins etc. Even though some aspects of their fundamental philosophies collide, as they do, one has to be open-minded and abstract from different sources, the ideologies which through reason, substantiate and/or harmonise upon ones existing personal values and ideologies. We need to incorporate them and expand upon our own personal philosophy. Thus over time evolving ourselves and the overall person we are. One who blindly follows any one type of ideology alone narrow-minded, free of reasonable morality is deemed ignorant, arrogant and the very opposite of a true freethinker. A real freethinker.