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Poll: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
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[Serious] Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
RE: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
(February 24, 2022 at 12:37 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That environmental action is desirable or worthwhile, at all, demonstrates a held value system.  You make a good point, though, maybe you hadn't read any environmentalists manifestos - it just seemed to you to be the right thing to do.   You (likely) considered your own apprehensions, your environment, and the relationship between you and others, and your environment, in that environment.  You constructed a value system, and then acted on it.  I'm not sure what's objectionable about noticing that this is philosophy, and the practical application of it.  

Sure, you're not wondering how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, or whether or not some god cammands you to environmental justice..but why would you?  Not even the theologian I offered up does that.  That's the Bad Kind™ of philosophy, but also a historical footnote to philosophy.  That's not what they do anymore.

(I doubt I could find enough people who held the normative positions I hold to form a church, but it would be a hell of a racket if I could get into it, for sure.  In the meantime, I leave church-building to those so inclined.)

The thing is that I didn't define it as a philosophy. This was an individual behavior unique to me (as far as I was concerned in the moment) and repeated or not repeated as conditions changed.

Stop trying to justify that every action, thought, behavior.... has a valid philosophical explanation. I'm sure philosophers can make one but that does not make it valid, only arguable.

Unless you'd like philosophy to be skin to religion/god and argue it's necessity for all things into existence.

I've said before that philosophy has it's place, it's just not my cup of kool-aid and I don't find it all that worth while. Stop trying to justify that I drink it.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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RE: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study? - by brewer - February 24, 2022 at 12:53 pm

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