Purpose: the reason for which something exists or is done.
Purpose comes into play in just about every area of our lives, and sometimes we ask ourselves: Why am I doing this?
I am writing this blog post so that I pass my Inquiry class. I have to pass INQ so that I can take classes in my major. I have to take classes in my major so I can become a teacher. I do not have to become a teacher, but I feel like it is my purpose in life to teach and help young people learn and grow. I agree with Viktor Frankl's perspective on meaning and purpose. You may be happy with your life, but the way to make it meaningful is to live for something outside of yourself and to help others.
Two interesting words from my classes this week were deism and Marxism.
Deism is belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation. In my history class, I learned that all of the founding fathers of the United States were deists.
Marxism is the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx that says the state, throughout history, has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class. We have been talking about different sociological perspectives like this one in my sociology class.
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