RE: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
February 23, 2022 at 5:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2022 at 6:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Ignoring that those things are themselves products of philosophy, you didn't have a single thought..at all, while you did that? You made no inferences, you acted out on no value system, and..I guess, learned nothing whatsoever?
I think you're setting yourself up in an impossible and wildly unrepresentative dilemma. I think..especially here, in the context of this forum "philosophy" as a pejorative is used as a term for some specific view that is understandably shit on - but it's a ludicrous baby/bathwater situation that isn't at all representative of what you actually do, who you actually are, and where your interests lie. At the bottom of it all, just as a human being, you're patently incapable of not "doing philosophy". We think about things, and can't even help but do so. There's no off button.
I think you're setting yourself up in an impossible and wildly unrepresentative dilemma. I think..especially here, in the context of this forum "philosophy" as a pejorative is used as a term for some specific view that is understandably shit on - but it's a ludicrous baby/bathwater situation that isn't at all representative of what you actually do, who you actually are, and where your interests lie. At the bottom of it all, just as a human being, you're patently incapable of not "doing philosophy". We think about things, and can't even help but do so. There's no off button.
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