Dela Cruz, Czarlie Mae S.
MWF 2:35 – 3:35
BSAT – 3E

“WHAT HAVE I LEARNED IN PHILOSOPHY CLASS?”

To be honest, I dislike this course before because I thought this would be another boring yet very difficult subject to pass, but obviously I was wrong; even though at the first quarter of the semester I had this impression that this subject is uninteresting because what we all did was to listen to the teacher while he’s discussing and copy notes, it really proved me that “first impression never lasts”. Our philosophy class during midterm and final got very interesting because of the various activities our professor had made for all of us; with all those topics that we have discussed, with all those stories that our professor have shared in class, with all those learning we have gained every after lessons, one thing had really etched in my mind, and that was the “Hell is other people” which was mentioned to us while we were discussing about Existentialism. I always have thought that the meaning of this metaphor was our relation with other people are poisoned, that those people who surrounds us are evil; but because of that discussion, I have found out that what it really mean is we look in ourselves by what people have seen in us, we are incapable of developing real opinions of ourselves via ourselves we take our opinions from others, we want to be our own masters, yet we cannot be and because of that we are fated to need others, whether we want to or not; People always say that “I don’t care about what others will think of me, I will do whatever I want to do.” But come to think of it, at the end of the day all that we want is to be liked, admired, and respected by others, which of course are some of the reason why Jean Paul Sartre said that “Hell is other people”.