How can philolsophy be taught?

Isn't it just an opinion of a view to life?

Much like religion, philosphy is an adherence to another person's set of ideals - you either subscribe, or you do not.
I find myself in a place of darkness; I'm lost and confused as to the point of life. If the point of life is to be happy, then without said happiness, there can be no point.
And yet, my being here has much bearance upon a great deal of things; my children's well being and education, for example.
So there is a point to my life, but it is beyond that which I so desperately crave.

The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the one.

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