(May 18, 2018 at 8:41 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(May 18, 2018 at 7:18 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: People don't generally stroll on out of Plato's cave. Sometimes they have to be dragged. It's an unpleasant experience on the whole, but those who make it out are thankful once they clear the threshold. The gift of knowledge is the greatest gift there is. Try not to take it for granted.
Except for philosophy, P-U.
Yeah, yeah... I'm not so naive as to think that requiring a bunch of philosophy courses in college is going to open the minds of millions or anything.
But I've said it before: intro to logic is a philosophy course that ought to be mandatory to all. At my university the only majors that were required to take the course were philosophy and pre-law. Everyone ought to take it in my opinion. Logic is useful in any career. Same thing with ethics. Everyone ought to have to take it.
I believe that philosophy 101 was the only phil course required for a great breadth of students. To me, they would have been better served by taking logic and/or ethics instead. What path in life can one take that doesn't involve at least one of those?
