Lang Ming

  

Volume 8 | Issue IV | December 2024

Northfield Mount Hermon School ’26

Massachusetts, USA

  

When I first heard about philosophy at the age of eight, I hated it. I remember having Sophie’s World in my hands, perplexed and bored out of my mind. Years later I would still review that scene, and examine how I have come to cherish philosophy as my most beloved academic interest. My fascinating odyssey started with German philosophers like Hegel, Fichte, and Kant. Then I roamed into Greek philosophy, religious studies, and existentialism, after which the philosophy of language came, and so did epistemology and brain studies. In the meantime, having been exposed to non-Western thoughts, I value philosophy as an asset of the human race; this is why I have always loved comparative philosophy the most, despite its diminishing popularity in academia. I run the philosophy club of my school and have been working with my excellent cohorts to both revitalize “comparative philosophy” and strengthen philosophical interest in our community. This paper is a cumulative product of my recent explorations in academic philosophy, where semantics serves as the medium through which the comparative ideology is conveyed. Outside academics, I play the violin, write poems, work in international charity projects, and am a fan of making changes to make the world a better place. As an aviation fan, I have also set up a mission to redesign the airport of every major city in the world…but that shall be for later. I am thrilled about the publication of my essay in The Schola.