What is philosophical reflection and is it important?

Philosophical reflection is the activity of utilizing the tools that philosophy provides us to examine our lives, and our most basic beliefs about life. The end goal is to achieve a higher level of understanding which results in rebalancing or changing your life in positive ways i.e. rejecting unimportant things or activities in life in favor of the things which are truly important.

I am sorry to say that although I have a BA in Phil from a highly reputable research university, I do not know exactly what it means either. Maybe it means holding up a Phil text to a mirror and seeing its reflection!

The best I can make of it is as follows. Insofar as reflection involves the spirit of something bouncing off something else, I take it that philosophical involves a superficial examination of something from a philosophical perspective. Say something happens to you during the day. You go home and review what happened in accordance with philosophical methods, or in accordance with objects of philosophical inquiry.

Philosophical methods largely involve the use of logic, and the use of concepts like necessary and sufficient conditionality, and disambiguation of terms. Objects of phil. inquiry include the natures of reality, knowledge, right action, modality, logic, science method, mind, language.

If you bounce an idea or the details of an event off the methods or objects of philosophy, then I guess you are philosophically reflecting.

Is it important? It must be. People have been doing it for a long time, to some extent or other, and however astutely. Better yet, now that I have laid out a reasonable answer to the first part of your question, can you determine for yourself whether it is important to you?

Reflection of any kind is mandatory in my opinion. We should all reflect on our lives from time to time. The problem is when we stay in a reflective mode too long. One can see where that would be a problem and that includes people with philosophical leanings as well. I tend to ponder things once in a while but am careful not to dwell there for very long due to real time responsibilities. We need to live in the present conciousness but a short vacation into another one is often recommended.

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What is philosophical reflection and is it important?

I would like to understand others perspectives as to why philosophical reflection is or isnt important. I dont totally understand what is philosophical reflection.

What Is Philosophical

Philosophical reflection is genuine only if it comes naturally to you!

Otherwise, it's all show-off and nonsense!!

Philosophy IS reflection.

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First off, regarding to one's own theory, I personally believes that originality is misguided and overrated (just thought I mentioned that since a lot of young intellectuals tend to emphasize this aspect and causes them a lot of frustration). Secondly, the most important problem that people need to deal with in today's world is to re-evaluate the capacity of scientific pursuits/approaches and their relationships with our attitudes toward our life and the world. We need to realize that science, as with any system, itself is a metaphysical perspective with experiences as its evidences, but that is it no more no less. With that in mind, people can regain the freedom to form their own personal systems and structure their life without fearing the growing ruthless scrutiny of the dominating "science" which take itself for granted. It all boils down to subjective/objective experience, authentic self-reflections, and knowing the boundaries of knowledge.

My friend Adonis has a theory he calls his energy theory. He says that scientifically, when you get to the root of our physical world, everything is made of energy. Our feelings and thoughts are energy too. When you think or feel, that joins everything else. Whatever religion you may believe is true in your reality, and whatever you think is going to happen when you die is probably going to happen to you because it's what you are putting your energy into. So, basically everyone is right in their own way.

Philosophical reflection is open-ended in the

sense that the goal is not to arrive at one

definitive answer for everyone. This means that

while learners may not necessarily agree with

other’s interpretations, they do not dismiss them

immediately without trying to understand where

these people are coming from and what their

reasons are for holding their beliefs. This openmindedness

to the horizons of other people

enables learners to fairly evaluate different

interpretations and to distinguish which among

them are excellent, plausible, and poor

interpretations of the text.