Philosophy in College

[coberst]

In my opinion philosophy as taught in our colleges and universities has practical value but that value is well disguised under layers of mumbo-jumbo.

I think our philosophical academicians have ignored a responsibility to the common-good. A citizenry well grounded in philosophical fundamentals is a valuable asset to the community. Our philosophical professors probably do more practical harm than good with their narrowly focused emphasis on the fine intricacies of esoteric argumentation.

[loseyourname]

The best results that I can see coming from philosophy in the last century or so is the application of formal logic systems to computer science.

[Rasine]

i once heard this somewhere: a philospher proves the jackasses of socity wrong, which, in turn, makes himself one.