Philosopher's Application

Finally! I decided to do my workout, after been awhile stop doing it for almost a year. A fresh idea suddenly struck in my head. Rather than just do my workout without any specific direction whatsoever, why I don't use an apps? So I try to install a workout apps to help me train more systematically and also organized, so I can save time with a maximum result. Also, I can track my record and routine with a great degree of precision. To my surprise, I staggered on how good the apps was. The feature inside is very helpful to a point I say, If my muscle is not going to grow properly after following all the steps in the apps, the failure must be resided in my part not in the apps. I must have been missed the instructions!

Today, the development of mobile apps is utterly astonishing. Around 29.5 thousand new apps are released every month just in Apps Store alone! We can create our own apps using software like Android Studio and start codding our own applicatio and then apply our application to google store. For more detail on how to make it we can read Michael Burton book entitled, Android App Development for Dummies. The author cover quite large range of discussion, and also very detailed in his explanation. 

In our device, almost everything we ever needed to develop our own-selves are available simply by clicking the screen and download it. There are apps that could help us in our diet. Apps that could help us to gain a better English. Apps that could help us to be a better reader and so on. The lists are countless. Suddenly, I think, why there is no apps that specifically track the record of someone to be a "better"philosopher in some extent? An apps that can help us to think and do practical things so that so, we will know our progress for instance in being more like our favorite philosopher take for instance: Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Rawls and many others.

There is actually lot of apps on philosophy but mainly is about lists of quotations from myriad philosophers. Some of them are pretty good yet still, the apps that I try to think of is more than just simply quotations. Albeit quotations are inspiring, sometimes, without giving some context behind we can miss the true meaning of quotation. Many believes that Enstein was talking about God from his quotation (God does not play dice with the universe: the word "God" here is written using metaphor) and conclude he believes in personal God but as we know, Einstein God is Spinoza's God, the God who is impersonal and remote from the world. So quotation cannot really make us a better philosopher or a better thinker in a long run. The philosopher's apps should move from simply quotation and include not just the summary of philosopher's thought but also give several quiz and test and most importantly, a practical lists of do and don't that we can start to implement in our daily life.

If we for instance want to follow the steps on how to be like Aristotle, there will be a several quiz to detect logical fallacies and wrong premises that lead us to a wrong conclusion. Or the apps can help people with helpful tips and tasks to live up the 12 virtues of Aristotle better (Courage, Temperance, Liberality, Magnificence, Magnanimity, Ambition, patience, friendliness, truthfulness, wit, modesty, and justice) or help people to be more like stoics by giving a steps and concrete tasks to improve the user to develop locus of self control, time management and stay focused in our thought and minimalizing distractions. It would be fun as well if every step and achievement there is a name or grade for it as kind of appreciation like for example, learner, thinker and philosopher or let say, student level, teacher level, master level (some can suggests more captivating name for each steps).

However, making this kind of apps ain't easy. Need lot of experts who well versed with the philosophers and their philosophies, and could translate the philosopher's thought into concrete real steps, tasks of becoming and living the philosophy out through real action plan. And of course, doubt it can be downloaded and used for free because of the immense effort of making the apps possible. I do not know whether this idea is good or bad but its definitely its going to be very interesting if in near future we can have this kind of apps in our pocket!