Is it an actual job, how much is the pay, who the hell do they work for and above all what is their purpose. It's always been something of a mystery to me.
2007-02-10 05:50:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
a bunch of twats that get paid to tell you their mind,.
2007-02-10 05:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Philosophy means "the love of wisdom"
A person who is a philosopher for a living is a teacher of it (normally) at any level, mostly University level..
Besides teaching wages, you also publish books. This too is an income. My lecturer charges £70 for his books, so I think he's pretty much loaded.
Philsophy's purpose or the purpose of a philosopher, is to attempt to explain the questions that bug us all.
(What is the meaning of life is not one of them btw? 100 years ago major philosophers decided it is an unanswerable question, one that even if it was answered, we wouldn't understand said answer, so there's really no point looking; see -Wittgenstein, Tolstoy)
Currently, the questions being answered, among many, is Who are you? what 'thing' is you that exists through time?
2007-02-10 13:56:59 · answer #2 · answered by mexican_seafooduk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
1. Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.
2. Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.
3. A system of thought based on or involving such inquiry: the philosophy of Hume.
4. The critical analysis of fundamental assumptions or beliefs.
5. The disciplines presented in university curriculums of science and the liberal arts, except medicine, law, and theology.
6. The discipline comprising logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
7. A set of ideas or beliefs relating to a particular field or activity; an underlying theory: an original philosophy of advertising.
8. A system of values by which one lives: has an unusual philosophy of life.
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lecturer
writer
resourcer
everyone works in philosophy.
* Peter Abelard
* Theodor Adorno
* Thomas Aquinas
* Hannah Arendt
* Aristotle
* Augustine
* Francis Bacon
* Roland Barthes
* Georges Bataille
* Jean Baudrillard
* Simone de Beauvoir
* Walter Benjamin
* George Berkeley
* Judith Butler
* Albert Camus
* Noam Chomsky
* Hélène Cixous
* Gilles Deleuze
* Jacques Derrida
* Rene Descartes
* John Dewey
* Michel Foucault
* Hans-Georg Gadamer
* Jürgen Habermas
* Donna Haraway
* Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
* Martin Heidegger
* Thomas Hobbes
* David Hume
* Edmund Husserl
* Luce Irigaray
* William James
* Kant Immanuel
* Julia Kristeva
* Lao Tzu
* Emmanuel Levinas
* John Locke
* Jean-François Lyotard
* Maurice Merleau-Ponty
* John Stewart Mill
* G.E. Moore
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* Plato
* W. V. Quine
* Ayn Rand
* Jean Jacques Rousseau
* Jean-Paul Sartre
* Arthur Schopenhauer
* Benedict de Spinoza
* Ludwig Wittgenstein
2007-02-11 07:09:15 · answer #3 · answered by surfer_ade_uk 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are people who have discarded religion, and think that they can replace it with their clever dick ideas about life and things in general. Often, irreligious academic types, usually left wing, Professors of ethics etc. Nobody can prove them wrong, because there is nothing to test their ideas against. They think that they can invent morality out of thin air. Proponents of the 'Human Rights Act', are examples of such people. Think too much, feel too little.
2007-02-10 16:56:41 · answer #4 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would need to write about it.. philosophy that is.. if you want to make a living from it...
is a philospher not a great thinker and interpreter..
perhaps that what a journalist is or perhaps a politician ...
except most politicians are not very good at putting their thoughts into action ....
nothing ever seems to be materialise from the determined electioneering thoughts and speeches they make prior to being elected... once in office their memory tends to fail them.. . I'll be interested in the feedback you get from others on this subject..
2007-02-10 15:05:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People still brave enough to ask childish questions. i.e 'Why should I be good? If the Universe started with a big bang what was before? ect., you generally only find people giving such questions serious consideration in primary schools and university philosophy departments.
2007-02-10 16:06:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
philosophers philosophise, they basically do nought but thin about thinking
2007-02-10 17:15:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are people who have jobs as philosiphers. i dunno how much they get paid. but my friends parents are philosiphers. philosiphers are acutlly people how the world revolves (metephorically) they think about peoples thinkings and why the world is like this today.
2007-02-10 13:54:09 · answer #8 · answered by fariya k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋