2006-12-13 21:31:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The area of philosophy I'm studying of course. OK I'll be serious now. The area of philosophy I'm passionate about is the philosophy of mathematics and science. Luckily you don't have to be a genius to study it, but you are studying the work of geniuses and that is lots of fun! It makes you see the world in an entirely different way. A good book for an overview of this which doesn't get lost in abstraction is "Journey through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics"...
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-through-Genius-Theorems-Mathematics/dp/0471500305
A good example of why this is so fascinating will become clear when you take a look at the way Kurt Godel's Incompleteness Theorem overthrew a lot of earlier math theory. A fairly good article for background on this is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_theorem
Small problems here though: Lots of philosophers in this line of work lose their sanity. Take a look at this book:
http://www.booksmatter.com/b188455010X.htm
Maybe it is a good thing that I love this area of study, but I'm just too ordinary for it to do me any real harm.
2006-12-13 22:17:09 · answer #1 · answered by Karma Chimera 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
...."high level, if any, genius?" are you asking what branch (s) are more prone to be practiced by geniuses? if yes to that then its entirely arbitrary, the genres of philosophy themselves do not indicate "high level" or genius, and a genius is just as likely to be working at mcdonalds as practicing any of philosophys discipliines.
2006-12-14 07:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by metroactus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of them. Anyone who has to reason through something ad infintum has a small degree of autism.
The man who can understand things correctly in their simplest terms without investigation is the genius.
2006-12-14 23:30:16 · answer #3 · answered by Clint S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
analytical; because it does not tend to leave out all substance of matter , the ability to look upon the whole and not disturb by taking away or adding of anything not common to the substance.
2006-12-14 06:26:00 · answer #4 · answered by Conway 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PARTY OF THE FIRST PART
2006-12-14 23:35:24 · answer #5 · answered by bev 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
logical
2006-12-14 07:52:17 · answer #6 · answered by les miserables 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋