Why do we philosophize? Ways of freedom

We will see at the beginning how questioning and philosophical thinking are beneficial to the mind, encouraging us to acquire a place for freedom, by distancing ourselves from suspicions driven by society and our preconceptions. Can the act of philosophizing then be defined as an attempt to question knowledge in the face of ignorance? Can philosophy contribute to reconciliation between us and others and the contemporary world? It seems that philosophizing coincides with the act of questioning. The birth of philosophy was characterized by amazement among the Greeks. It was not naive or gullible amazement, but sensory amazement that encourages intellectual curiosity and thinking and reflection. It was about questioning phenomena and working to understand them. If philosophy has been linked from the beginning, in ancient times, to rituals and myth, and then to a kind of belief, it has broken away from that. It has freed itself from the popular perception of the universe. However, the question of the origin of the world was strongly present. Because, in the time when humans found themselves "thrown" (jetés) into the world, they questioned and still insistently question the place they came from, and why there is a being. Publisher Ibn al-Nadim Number of pages 171