What do we know and what do we believe?
Examples of things things that we know are that the sky is blue, that we breathe air and that someday we are going to die. Examples of things we can only believe are the existance of God, life on other planets and the existance of multiple universes.
The factors that may influence a person's philosophy of life are environment, upbringing and time period. Environment and upbringning are considered nature vs nurture. The environment a person is born in will affect their philosophy yet if you teach them since they are young you are upbringing them with said philosophy. Time period is also influential, people do not think the same way they did two hundred years ago.
We are born with a conscience but we don't really know how to use it. As we gain experience and we are taught right from wrong our conscience develops and grows.
The importance of values depends completely on the situation that one is in. We are taught since we are young to be honest but if lying could save a person's life we would value that persons life more than honesty. This also brings the fact that some values ar more important than others by nature.
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