What I believe philosophy strives for most is unity. Some sort of unity of the mind and spirit. A unified understanding of purpose. A question of why?
Today in class we talked a lot about the concept of a "world." What exactly constitutes a world? For the most part we agreed with Kant's idea of das Ding an sich - the thing as perceived by oneself. Basically, most people thought that every person constructs their own world in their life and strive to build up their world. Everyone, through perception, has a uniquely different world. But there is something bigger--Hegel's Weltgeist. What if the world spirit is not the evolution of accumulated knowledge reaching a finality. What if the spirit of the world is every person's own life and own world, combined in a beautiful manifestation of humanity.
The human spirit and the human experience, coupled with the magnificence and splendor of nature, create the ultimate world spirit.
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