Reading through the book, all I can say is that these attempts at understanding life and art seem irrelevant to my life.

Philosophy only has purpose if it can inspire and ease the tribulations we face everyday.

I was so bored and absent while reading the ideas Plato evoked. All his theories are so obsolete and impertinent. While we have always been human over the centuries and millennia and share the same faculties and senses, there are differences between us then and now.

I believe theories are only good if they effect change in the present. What's philosophy if it is dead to the people of today. Philosophy is not here to serve the ego of its creator. Philosophy is here so that we can bear the horrendous pain dealt every moment to us, the hell that we can only escape through our minds and intelligence.

Besides fulfilling a requirement, I want to take this class, because I want it to shed light on existence and myself and to bring me to a larger peace with myself and art, and to help me love literature more than ever, because it can be absorbed through a higher level. I want to see beyond the surface of words and hold thought in my grasp long enough to feel a certain euphoria that there is more to life than the banal and concrete. I want to go somewhere that I have never trespassed, and I'm hoping that I can find the right place that fills me with joy, as short as that joy or inspiration may be.