Undergraduate / 'Life in new aspects - On Philosophy' - CommonApp Essay [4]

A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.

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Like Ludwig Wittgenstien who was suffering from the torments of philosophical questions and thus found his way into becoming a philosopher to answer these questions, I paved my road to philosophy. My journey, though a long one, begun with short but subtle questions, they seemed straightforward at the first sight, but when examined deeply, they became the most difficult questions known to a man. Questions of existence, morals, knowledge and truth, questions that shaped our minds, questions that gave birth to the absurd, the dancing stars and the tragedy, but alas! No mind can produce a perfect answer to these questions, for perfection is ludicrous in many senses. And I must admit, it was a skeptical stage of my life where I faced the power of how, what and why alone, so I decided to dedicate my time to philosophy by attending philosophy classes and reading the books of many important philosophers, but somehow it turned out to be the changing point of my life! It seemed to me that I was revolutionized by philosophy. - I transcended!

The beauty of philosophy lies within its tendency to make us think about life in new aspects, but on the other hand, the beauty can also be found when it demolishes the simplest form of knowledge that we hold. And by applying philosophy to our life, we liberate ourselves from the chains of misconception and cradle the path into sound reasoning, and hence a better life! And If we apply it to the Middle East, we will find that the problems we encounter in both political and social contexts are caused by the absence of philosophy in our lives. And one can deduce from history that philosophy in Arabic-speaking countries has been bounded in universities and limited to certain people since the beginning of the 20th century, and this led to an ideologic problem or self-destruction; in the disappearance of the new thought and philosophizing, we become enslaved by the unoriginal thought that destructs us from within and then leads us to ignorance.

According to Immanuel Kant and his categorical imperative, studying philosophy in this case will be a moral duty since the nation needs a hand to extricate them from the mire of delusion, and I have always answered those who are in need.