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Penny 4 your thoughts.
No I'm holding thta the subject of philospohy and professional philosphers are useless in the modern ageDissident Dan said:Wouldn't ethics fall under the general category of philosophy? I consider rthat highly important. Thoughts regrding deitical existence are philosophica and importance. Holding that philosophy is useless is a philosophy.
Njorl said:While no one ever says,"Hmm, we've got a problem here. We better call in a philosopher!", there are material benefits to studying philosophy. At good schools, the philosophy major is a challenge. Doing well in it is a demonstration of the ability to think well and think critically. Excelling in one of these programs is probably the surest path to getting into a good law school, and helps getting into grad school for other majors.
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jcsd said:Philosophy today is redundant, all the useful asres have branched off and formed disciplines such as psychology, social science, physics, etc, leaving a philosophers unqualfied to do little more than teach philosophy.
All philosophers should eb rounded up and made to pull a big wheel around like the one in Conan the Babarian.
LW Sleeth said:Your problem is that you lump all philosophy together. I'd say rationalism is dead and redundant, but all that represents is a misguided aspect of philosophy.
By your logic, because of the pseudoscientists we should get all the scientists together and have them pull that big wheel. Haven't the pseudoscientists proven the ineffectiveness of science?
Meanwhile, some others of us are pondering how we can improve the quality of our thinking.
jcsd said:No, I say that the subject of philosphy as academically taught and those who teach are redunant, this applies to the whole blasted bunch of them, not just the rationalists etc.
So my logic would not conclude that scientists should have to pull the wheel as only the redunat have to.
jcsd said:Philosophy today is redundant, all the useful asres have branched off and formed disciplines such as psychology, social science, physics, etc, leaving a philosophers unqualfied to do little more than teach philosophy.
All philosophers should eb rounded up and made to pull a big wheel around like the one in Conan the Babarian.