(February 6, 2014 at 11:13 am)max-greece Wrote: Not that its worth much but my take is that I really like aspects of philosophy and that it can be really helpful in clarifying thinking, yet, at other times it just seems to be a road block where rivalling factions of philosophers go way off the original point (whatever it was) to discuss esoteric elements that almost no-one outside of philosophy can understand - least of all, me.
... which is why one's philosophy is another man's trash.
Meh. People who don't like philosophy at all I think are too wrapped up by the "I'll believe it when I see it" mindset - so they tend to put little value on the faculty of reasoning ...
Or perhaps they don't understand what philosophy is.
