Three Things to Know Before You Dive Into Philosophy

Philosophy begins with questions that human beings have always asked in every civilization. In the ancient Greek myth of Pandora's box, you have a myth purporting to explain why the world contains suffering and it offers an answer, but the answer isn't based on evidence. So philosophy is the attempt to answer the most fundamental questions of all using our human cognitive abilities, reason and observation and rational discussion. And among those questions, I think the most fundamental is, does God exist? And philosophers from the beginning sought to answer that question.