RE: How worthless is Philosophy?
November 16, 2023 at 2:55 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2023 at 3:00 pm by Bucky Ball.)
I found a series of Ethics courses to be of value to me, as I sit on a medical Ethics Committee.
It's useful to look at the unexamined assumptions in a statement or proposition.
I'm sure there are some "eye rolls", when they get around to table to me, as I tend to nit-pick, secondary to my great Ethics professors,
but I also get a lot of "thank you for raising that".
As far as I know, they still don't know what my positions are with respect to religion.
There are some fairly new (termed "feminist" "Duty to Care") Ethics that are in line with my positions in general.
Have been slowly going through the Philosophy of Kant recently. One day I agree, the next I don't.
It's useful to look at the unexamined assumptions in a statement or proposition.
I'm sure there are some "eye rolls", when they get around to table to me, as I tend to nit-pick, secondary to my great Ethics professors,
but I also get a lot of "thank you for raising that".
As far as I know, they still don't know what my positions are with respect to religion.
There are some fairly new (termed "feminist" "Duty to Care") Ethics that are in line with my positions in general.
Have been slowly going through the Philosophy of Kant recently. One day I agree, the next I don't.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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