Jennifer Lei S.

Ibana
11-Courage

My own philosophy in life

After 17 years of living. I still don't have life figured out, and I doubt I ever will, but age

has given me some knowledge, and hopefully, I've learned a few things in all that time. I don't

have just one life philosophy, but more than one and they all influence who I am now.

I believe that each individual here on earth features a reason and none of us are

here occasionally. I know not numerous individuals consider on this but I do. So, I

have frequently asked myself, what is my reason in life? What is anybody's reason in life? That's

a question that we all deal with, why are we here, what is the point of life? There's the thought

that our reason in life is as it was known by God. That he has chosen it for some time recently we

were ever born but I still attempt my best to get the more profound meaning of life and how to

live the leading out of it.

One of my philosophies in life that has done great to alter my way of communicating is

that learn when to talk and how to tune in. It is no surprise the foremost individuals don’t know

when to begin and stop talking, they are moreover the same individuals who get

in inconvenience a part for talking as well much because they tend to say things

without considering. We have two ears and one mouth for a reason and on best of that, we have a

brain complex sufficient to handle information and get it circumstances altogether as it were in

case one would learn to utilize it.

 The gift of being able to specific our sentiments, feelings, thoughts or plans into

something called words. But as with each gift, overusing it may lead to startling comes

about. Talking and listening in a balanced way is basic in our world.

The commotion of useless words that many of us are throwing away in an endeavor to

induce a grip on somebody else’s consideration, makes a thick mist that

creates it truly troublesome to really get it each other. Unexpectedly, the more we talk, the less

we’re able to communicate.

We are likely to burn more bridges when talking than being calm, opposite to

the prevalent conviction. Keeping up quiet may be a sign of development and strength. It is much

harder to remain noiseless than keep on talking particularly on contentions. Talking as well

is really one of the reasons why connections are much harder to

handle nowadays. Everybody features a parcel to say but no one needs to stop and listen and

that’s the root cause of errors and contentions that can conceivably lead

to heaving derisive words that you’ll regret right after. Tuning in is brilliant. Tune in not

to answer but to communicate. It is a perfect way, the most perfect way to get it to

other individuals, by loaning your ears to them at whatever point they are required. You might

not know the idealized thing to say in certain circumstances but at the slightest, you know how

to tune in and individuals will appreciate it more. You're most likely to realize in life

when individuals trust and accept you and in return, you may continuously have combined of

ears to rage on.

Listening is also a pathway for new knowledge. People tend to speak more and think less,

more words doesn't mean deeper meaning. Dalai Lama once said *When you talk, you are only

repeating what you already know, but when you listen, you may learn something new".
 We've been blessed with the gift of talking and the gift of language. The gift of being

able to express our feelings. emotions. ideas or plans into something called words. But as with

every gift, overusing it may lead to unexpected results. Speaking and listening in a balanced way

are imperative in our world. The noise of useless words that many of us are throwing away in an

attempt to get a grip on someone else's attention, creates a thick fog that makes it really difficult

to actually understand each other Ironically the more we talk the less we're gble to communicate.

We often open our mouth without really knowing what we're going to say. Sometimes we

improvise and it may turn out right. But most of the time, we're just shouting randomly about a

topic, without any quality contribution to the conversation.

The result: no one really listen to us.Before you respond, no matter how urgent the

answer may look. Think for a while. Keep in mind the thought that you really have has many

options, not just one. Ponder and your answer will not only be well thought out but people will

be more apt to listen. The "need for speed" in our modern world often forces us to simplify our

interactions, to the point where they become useless. Based on just a few words, or a few

sentences, we often create a perspective on some thing or some person, which may simply be

inaccurate because we didn't take the time to actually listen listening means not only giving to

the omer the ume to Tinish their speecn. Out also the exercise of "borrowing" their perspective.

Listening means to see things from their point of view.

The next thing about my philosophy of life is a proper attitude what means that I have a

lot of faith in myself and I am taking challenges with believing in final success. Optimism is very
important in man's life and we cannot forget about it, because it helps in bearing up with

difficulties.

My philosophy of life tells that I always have to be myself and listen to my heart as much

as I listen to my mind and to play along with the voice of my conscience. I believe, that man

should develop himself, every time try to experience something new and always use an

opportunity to increase his knowledge in order to be conscious and intelligent.

Philosopher Aristotle

Aristotle, Greek Aristoteles, (born 384 BCE, Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece—died

322, Chalcis, Euboea), ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the

greatest intellectualfigures of Western history. He was the author of a philosophical and scientific

system that became the framework and vehicle for both

Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy. Even after the intellectual revolutions

of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, Aristotelian concepts remained

embedded in Western thinking.

Aristotle’s intellectual range was vast, covering most of the sciences and many of the arts,

including biology, botany, chemistry, ethics, history, logic, metaphysics, rhetoric, philosophy of

mind, philosophy of science, physics, poetics, political theory, psychology, and zoology. He was

the founder of formal logic, devising for it a finished system that for centuries was regarded as

the sum of the discipline; and he pioneered the study of zoology, both observational and

theoretical, in which some of his work remained unsurpassed until the 19th century. But he is, of

course, most outstanding as a philosopher. His writings in ethics and political theory as well as
in metaphysics and the philosophy of science continue to be studied, and his work remains a

powerful current in contemporary philosophical debate.

This article deals with Aristotle’s life and thought. For the later development of

Aristotelian philosophy, see Aristotelianism. For treatment of Aristotelianism in the

full context of Western philosophy, seephilosophy, Western.

Aristotle life

Aristotle was born on the Chalcidic peninsula of Macedonia, in northern Greece. His

father, Nicomachus, was the physician of Amyntas III(reigned c. 393–c. 370 BCE), king of

Macedonia and grandfather of Alexander the Great(reigned 336–323 BCE). After his father’s

death in 367, Aristotle migrated to Athens, where he joined the Academy of Plato (c. 428–c.

348 BCE). He remained there for 20 years as Plato’s pupil and colleague.

Many of Plato’s later dialogues date from these decades, and they may reflect Aristotle’s

contributions to philosophical debate at the Academy. Some of Aristotle’s writings also belong to

this period, though mostly they survive only in fragments. Like his master, Aristotle wrote

initially in dialogue form, and his early ideas show a strong Platonicinfluence. His

dialogue Eudemus, for example, reflects the Platonic view of the soul as imprisoned in the body

and as capable of a happier life only when the body has been left behind. According to Aristotle,

the dead are more blessed and happier than the living, and to die is to return to one’s real home.

Another youthful work, the Protrepticus(“Exhortation”), has been reconstructed by

modern scholars from quotations in various works from late antiquity. Everyone must do

philosophy, Aristotle claims, because even arguing against the practice of philosophy is itself a

form of philosophizing. The best form of philosophy is the contemplation of the universe of
nature; it is for this purpose that God made human beings and gave them a godlike intellect. All

else—strength, beauty, power, and honour—is worthless.

It is possible that two of Aristotle’s surviving works on logic and disputation,

the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations, belong to this early period. The former demonstrates

how to construct arguments for a position one has already decided to adopt; the latter shows how

to detect weaknesses in the arguments of others. Although neither work amounts to a

systematic treatise on formal logic, Aristotle can justly say, at the end of the Sophistical

Refutations, that he has invented the discipline of logic—nothing at all existed when he started.

During Aristotle’s residence at the Academy, King Philip II of Macedonia (reigned 359–

336 BCE) waged war on a number of Greek city-states. The Athenians defended their

independence only half-heartedly, and, after a series of humiliating concessions, they allowed

Philip to become, by 338, master of the Greek world. It cannot have been an easy time to be a

Macedonian resident in Athens.

Within the Academy, however, relations seem to have remained cordial. Aristotle always

acknowledged a great debt to Plato; he took a large part of his philosophical agenda from Plato,

and his teaching is more often a modification than a repudiation of Plato’s doctrines. Already,

however, Aristotle was beginning to distance himself from Plato’s theory of Forms, or Ideas

(eidos; see form). (The word Form, when used to refer to Forms as Plato conceived them, is

often capitalized in the scholarly literature; when used to refer to forms as Aristotle conceived

them, it is conventionally lowercased.) Plato had held that, in addition to particular things, there

exists a suprasensible realm of Forms, which are immutable and everlasting. This realm, he

maintained, makes particular things intelligible by accounting for their common natures: a thing
is a horse, for example, by virtue of the fact that it shares in, or imitates, the Form of “Horse.” In

a lost work, On Ideas, Aristotle maintains that the arguments of Plato’s central dialogues

establish only that there are, in addition to particulars, certain common objects of the sciences. In

his surviving works as well, Aristotle often takes issue with the theory of Forms, sometimes

politely and sometimes contemptuously. In his Metaphysics he argues that the theory fails to

solve the problems it was meant to address. It does not confer intelligibility on particulars,

because immutable and everlasting Forms cannot explain how particulars come into existence

and undergo change. All the theory does, according to Aristotle, is introduce new entities equal in

number to the entities to be explained—as if one could solve a problem by doubling it

When Plato died about 348, his nephew Speusippus became head of the Academy, and

Aristotle left Athens. He migrated to Assus, a city on the northwestern coast of Anatolia (in

present-day Turkey), where Hermias, a graduate of the Academy, was ruler. Aristotle became a

close friend of Hermias and eventually married his ward Pythias. Aristotle helped Hermias to

negotiate an alliance with Macedonia, which angered the Persian king, who had Hermias

treacherously arrested and put to death about 341. Aristotle saluted Hermias’s memory in “Ode

to Virtue,” his only surviving poem.

While in Assus and during the subsequent few years when he lived in the city of Mytilene

on the island of Lesbos, Aristotle carried out extensive scientific research, particularly in zoology

and marine biology. This work was summarized in a book later known, misleadingly, as The

History of Animals, to which Aristotle added two short treatises, On the Parts of Animals and On

the Generation of Animals. Although Aristotle did not claim to have founded the science of

zoology, his detailed observations of a wide variety of organisms were quite without precedent.

He—or one of his research assistants—must have been gifted with remarkably acute eyesight,
since some of the features of insects that he accurately reports were not again observed until the

invention of the microscope in the 17th century.

The scope of Aristotle’s scientific research is astonishing. Much of it is concerned with

the classification of animals into genus and species; more than 500 species figure in his treatises,

many of them described in detail. The myriad items of information about the anatomy, diet,

habitat, modes of copulation, and reproductive systems of mammals, reptiles, fish, and insects

are a melange of minute investigation and vestiges of superstition. In some cases his unlikely

stories about rare species of fish were proved accurate many centuries later. In other places he

states clearly and fairly a biological problem that took millennia to solve, such as the nature of

embryonic development.

Despite an admixture of the fabulous, Aristotle’s biological works must be regarded as a

stupendous achievement. His inquiries were conducted in a genuinely scientific spirit, and he

was always ready to confess ignorancewhere evidence was insufficient. Whenever there is a

conflict between theory and observation, one must trust observation, he insisted, and theories are

to be trusted only if their results conform with the observed phenomena.

In 343 or 342 Aristotle was summoned by Philip II to the Macedonian capital at Pella to

act as tutor to Philip’s 13-year-old son, the future Alexander the Great. Little is known of the

content of Aristotle’s instruction; although the Rhetoric to Alexander was included in the

Aristotelian corpus for centuries, it is now commonly regarded as a forgery. By 326 Alexander

had made himself master of an empire that stretched from the Danube to the Indus and included

Libya and Egypt. Ancient sources report that during his campaigns Alexander arranged for

biological specimensto be sent to his tutor from all parts of Greece and Asia Minor.
 After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C., anti-Macedonian sentiment again

forced Aristotle to flee Athens. He died a little north of the city in 322, of a digestive complaint.

He asked to be buried next to his wife, who had died some years before. In his last years he had a

relationship with his slave Herpyllis, who bore him Nicomachus, the son for whom his great

ethical treatise is named.

Aristotle’s favored students took over the Lyceum, but within a few decades the school’s

influence had faded in comparison to the rival Academy. For several generations Aristotle’s

works were all but forgotten. The historian Strabo says they were stored for centuries in a moldy

cellar in Asia Minor before their rediscovery in the first century B.C., though it is unlikely that

these were the only copies.

In 30 B.C. Andronicus of Rhodes grouped and edited Aristotle’s remaining works in what

became the basis for all later editions. After the fall of Rome, Aristotle was still read in

Byzantium and became well-known in the Islamic world, where thinkers like Avicenna (970-

1037), Averroes (1126-1204) and the Jewish scholar Maimonodes (1134-1204) revitalized

Aritotle’s logical and scientific precepts.

Destiny/Dream

Ever since elementary my dream has always been to become a nurse. I know that Nursing

is the profession for me. Becoming a Pediatric Nurse is what interest me. I am an outgoing person

who enjoys working with and helping others. I have watched my friends in facebook graduate from

nursing school and how hard they worked and how committed they are was in making her dream

of becoming a nurse.

  Today they are now a Pediatric Nurse. I have seen how dedicated they are and they’re

compassion for they’re patients inspires me to work hard and stay focus so that one day I too can

make my dream come true. It makes me more interested in becoming a nurse by seeing how much

they enjoys their job at the hospital.

I want to be nurse because I want to help people in many different ways. They work at a

fast, but focused pace; work side by side with Doctors and surgeons. Nursing has been a dream of

mine for many years. There are many different kinds of nurses. The nurse I would strictly want to

become is a pediatrician nurse, taking care of kids with illness. To work in this field you have to

have an understanding of what is all involved.

I’ve always wanted a job that uses my caring nature and becoming a nurse seems like the

perfect fit. Any job can be rewarding but working in the medical field where you can help save

lives, make differences and be supportive at a person’s time of need is at the top of my list when I

think of a rewarding career. I am choosing to become nurse because I love learning new things and

with a nursing career no day will be the same as the day before