ason is our means of survival in a philosophical world. It is necessary for us to ask philosophical questions because through this, we gain knowledge, which helps us to make sense of the world around us and find meaning in life. When we learn about the world, we need to understand its nature and in order to do so, we need a view of the world around us to unify our knowledge. We need philosophy. We can live without understanding philosophy itself. We can live denying the fact that we need philosophy. We can even live without understanding our own philosophy. But we cannot live without a philosophy. Everyone must have had a philosophy in life. Without it, we would have no idea on how to look at life or the world for that matter.
             The importance of philosophy was further discussed on the chapter "Top Hat" which, by the way is my favorite chapter in the novel. Why? Because it changed how I viewed the world and myself. For me, this was the hook of the novel especially with these words that really disturbed my thinking, "A white rabbit is pulled out of a top hat. Because it is an extremely large rabbit, the trick takes many billions of years. All mortals are born at the very tip of the rabbit's fine hairs, where they are in a position to wonder at the impossibility of the trick. But as they grow older they work themselves ever deeper into the fur. And there they stay. They become so comfortable they never risk crawling back up the fragile hairs again. Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink." When I read this, I realized I was becoming one of those who are snuggling comfortably deep in the rabbit's fur and that I had become used to the world. This showed that most of us had lost our &qu...