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The key takeaway I had from the Magisterial Lecture is that we cannot know who we truly are without the help of those around us; we experience ourselves not by labeling and sorting ourselves into categories, but by living life and going through it with the relationships we have and make.

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The Magisterial Lecture taught me how much we are interdigitated with those around us. We are who we are, and we can define ourselves from others simply because of their existence. I am me, and they are themselves. Yet despite the differences that define and separate us from others, it's inevitable that we share common factors with others. Hence, it's our interaction with those around us leading to our own life experiences, that truly reveals who we are.

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Understanding becomes superficial and incomplete without immersion and experience.

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Life, like philosophy, isn't solely about looking and observing; it's about jumping in and experiencing with others.

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People often wish to be one-of-a-kind, independent of others, but as we try to embody that uniqueness, we actually move farther and farther from reaching our full human potential because it is in putting ourselves by each other, hand-in-hand, that we truly flourish and grow as people.

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Our interactions with others allow us to have moments of strong sense of self that define our personalities; it is through these experiences, not categorization, that we are able to understand who we truly are.

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Our relationships and interactions with others not only play an important role in discovering who we are but also play an important part for philosophical reflections.

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We can only come to understand who we truly are when we reflect on who we are while interacting with others.

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Father Ferriols' quote: "Lundagin mo, baby!" and how Dr. Angeles explained it: "parang swimming pool ang buhay; hindi tinitingnan,
hindi iniikutan, kung hindi nilulundag."

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In order to live life, we must learn how to stop, to reflect, and to dwell.

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You cannot flourish by yourself; instead, one must be immersed with the company of other people over time to be able to fully learn, live, and discover ourselves and others.

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The categories that we use to objectively define ourselves fail to capture who we really we are, but instead we can better define ourselves through our lived experiences with others, those that affirm us and our feelings of self-realization.

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We can't truly know who we are by categorizing ourselves. No matter how we break ourselves down into parts to analyze, we can never truly and fully define ourselves unless we commune with others.

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My most important takeaway from the lecture was how in order to know about life, we must experience it. Even then, we may have an answer but that answer only encapsulates my personal experiences. With that being said, I realized the value of self reflection from time to time since only then will I be able to fully answer the question "what is life".

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My most important take away is that I can only discover and live myself through the people around me.

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We get to know more of ourselves when we commune with other people because they, too, help in our growth as individuals. I also find it important to remember Fr. Ferriols' quote, "Lundagin mo, baby!" so that we may not stop learning about who we are.

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Since categorising oneself into simple categories does not fully encapsulate who we are, one can truly discover who they are in the grander scheme of things by living life, reflecting, and dwelling about themselves and their existence amongst other people.

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To know who we truly are is to experience life through our unique interpersonal relationships as opposed to mere categories.

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Understanding one self is a process of reflection. On top of that, we could only discover our true selves by interacting with the external world.

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We can describe the self through various categories and labels, dissecting oneself to the rudimentary components, however, to realise who the self really is, which are not grounded on any pre-existing categories, requires interacting with the self's external world.

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Philosophical reflection is not just about placing yourself in individual categories, but a big part of it is about situating yourself into a bigger whole in relation to your experiences and relationships.

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To live life and to understand the self is to interact with the people around us.

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I really appreciate and agree with the quote Ma’am Angeles mentioned, coming from Maurice Blondel: “Philosophy doesn’t explain life but helps constitute it.” Connecting this to what was mentioned in the video, I learned that life cannot be sufficiently be understood or experienced with mere words, but by living and reflecting on it all.

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If I were to define myself based on the categories that make up who I am, then I am not unique at all; what defines who I truly am greatly depends on how I interact with the people around me.

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My most important takeaway from the Magisterial lecture is that we should interact with people in order to find out our true selves through these moments that we experience with them and not just base how we are through categories.

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A major takeaway from the lecture is that humans are usually concerned with objective and tangible definitions, therefore often forgetting to just exist in the moment and reflecting about who we are as defined by these experiences.

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It is extremely important for individuals to continuously interact with their external world, for only in this way will they be able to discover their true selves and live a life full of goodness, prosperity and happiness.

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In order to found out who we truly are, it is not enough to look inwards but also to look outwards in our interactions with other people.

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Self-reflection consists of looking outward and figuring out who we are and what our role is in relation to the greater sphere of society.

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While we identify ourselves apart from one another by our respective names and designations, we only truly know ourselves when we come together with others, in moments of lived experience.

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We are meant to philosophize with other people because it gives us meaning and awareness to our own existence.

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We must have experience with ourselves in order to truly be able to philosophize about who we are.

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The self cannot be sufficiently discovered by mere description of categories, but rather it must be experienced in relation to the world.

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Reflection to life is important because it allows us to deliberately think about ourselves and our choices, and it is an essential part to having a more structured learning process and a richer inner soul.

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Explaining something isn't the same as experiencing something.

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I've always thought that the need to seek affirmation impedes the discovery of the "I" because instead of reflecting on the "I" in its rawest form, we are reflecting on the "I" given set conditions. However, Dra. Angeles challenged this with a good point— the "bulaga" game.  Although the pursuit to discover the "I" is a journey that is only for the self, it can only be captured by the key concept of "experiences", and our own experiences are inseparable to how we interact with other people. Hence, the importance of "others" in discovering the "self".

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The most important takeaway I got is to always support our dynamic life with reflection and building strong relationships truly matters. Dr. Angeles together with Mr. Spack, Aristotle are one in saying that a  reflective life leads us to thrive well.

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My favorite point made in the lecture was the inevitability of the "outside" having an effect on the self, especially when trying to categorize ourselves.

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My most important takeaway from the Magisterial Lecture is that getting to discover one's subjective "I" relies on a mutual and reciprocal interaction with another human being.

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My biggest takeaway from the lecture is how a person is much more than the categories they are put into, and how the only way to fully understand myself is by looking at my individuality in relation to the people around me.

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A balance between solitude (the act of reflection) and connection with other human beings is essential to living a full and wholehearted life in pursuit of understanding one's self in relation to others.

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My most significant takeaway from the talk was how the idea of philosophy on how we try to understand ourselves cannot function without analyzing our experiences in our relationships

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The meaning of life and who we are can only be discovered through our interactions with the world and other people.

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Life is like a baguette, no matter how much it is described to us and no matter how many descriptions it is given, eating it is a whole new experience altogether leading to very different realities of what we expect and what actually is.

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Our attempts at categorizing ourselves requires us to define ourselves in relation to others, but we cannot limit ourselves into these categories. Instead, we should bask in  our experiences and reflect on our relationships to get a better, deeper, and more profound understanding of ourselves.

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Simply studying these terms and observing the world around you is not enough to be considered as philosophizing; we must experience living and thriving, dissecting and reflecting, beyond what we already know and beyond the categories we assign to ourselves.

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Simple things like truly understanding who we are as individuals is already a practice of philosophy.

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We become more aware of who we are by interacting with and understanding those around us.

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Through philosophy, we are able to learn how to think and how to appreciate our life and the world around us.

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We are truly relational people. We must use this to our advantage to understand, appreciate, and learn the art philosophy in our daily lives.