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Without Good, There Would Be No Evil, or How a Philosopher Kicked Me Out of Class
Dive into the philosophical analysis of the contradictions of good and evil, and discover how one lesson can change the perception of life. Read the story of how philosophy led to an unexpected conclusion in the classroom.
Since childhood, I have been thinking about this: what is good and what is evil at all?
Essentially, these are terms to which we have attached our own concepts. We were taught from childhood: this is bad, and this is good. But what if everything were the other way around? What if we lived in another world where all people were bad, and for them this would be normal?
We wouldn't even realize that good is good and evil is bad in our current understanding. Perhaps everything would be perceived completely differently.
If you think about it, even in the current world, there are people who really do not understand this. For them, evil is good, and good is either bad or considered a manifestation of weakness.
Once in the 7th grade, I raised this topic in one of the first philosophy classes. And something happened that I did not expect at all.
The philosopher suddenly got incredibly angry and started yelling at me, saying that I didn't understand anything at all. To be honest, I was shocked. After all, I wasn't arguing with him or trying to offend anyone. I was just curious to reason.
I replied to him:
— But this is a philosophy lesson. Do I not have the right to reason, do I?
And here things got even stranger.
He literally lost it and just kicked me out of the class. :)
Even now, I sometimes remember this case and wonder: what exactly bothered him so much? Was it the question itself? Or the fact that someone decided to look at familiar things from a different angle?
I have always thought that philosophy exists precisely to ask uncomfortable questions. Those very questions for which there are no ready-made answers at the end of the textbook.
What do you think? Was I thinking correctly back then? Did I have the right to reason about such things in a lesson that is supposedly created for reasoning and exploring different perspectives on the world?
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