The guru has certain traditional ideas of how life is to be lived and the adherence thereof that he passes down to the student, who listens and understands the guru’s argument, but then, questions that theory based on his own experience and more often than not, comes up with a new explanation to that same theory.

We all know that philosophy is the study of how life should be lived idealistically in general whereas sociology is the study of human societies actually live! Now this is the tricky part – philosophy addresses hypothetical situations of what life ought to be like or how it should be lived – for example the idea of utopia (a perfect world). Which is all well and good however if we turn a blind eye to how life has actually been and how we currently exist in this world, we will never be able to address issues of existence and find solutions.

What it does is tells us what we ought to do with life as we know it. It’s like a code of conduct for life, which more often than not is not what it is made out to be! We know that life ‘should be lived in a particular way’ (get an education, find a job, get married, look after the parents in their old age, get the kids married off, retire, etc., etc.) but it never really turns out to be quite what we expected it to be! However, once we assess our strengths and weaknesses, we can then start working towards that ideal way of life that philosophers philosophize we should live in!

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