I love philosophy!!! I just wanted to see what you guys come up with...
Best Answer gets 10 points
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2007-06-03 04:04:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Philosophy has never answered any questions. What it has done is explore all the ignorant answers and this can be highly beneficial.
Philosophy could find genuine answers but it will have to change its perspectives and name for this to happen.
2007-06-03 04:21:44 · answer #1 · answered by Wizard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a love/hate relationship with it. I love it when what I learn from it can be used constructively from day to day, and I hate it when it's otherwise. My wife tells me to forget about finishing my degree work in Education and to instead go for my Bachelor's degree in Philosophy. She says it better reflects my personality and would be a great undergraduate degree to have if I ever would seriously consider law school or seminary. She might just have a point. The areas of philosophy that interest me the most are rationalism, informal fallacies, determinism, and free-will. I won't even get started on political and social philosophy or we'll be here all day!
2007-06-03 11:59:22 · answer #2 · answered by RIFF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that something that is not applied does not impact your life. I enjoy philosophy because it is not just about examining the present, it is about the possibility revealed in the answers to these questions. While I believe you should define what principles you value, I also believe you should constantly question what you believe and judge it in reference to your experiences. Philosophy is about connecting with the minds and perceptions of others. I know my experience is subjective and that someone else will see it differently than I will. I personally extrapolate philosophy to questioning things you do not understand, not just the instances in human interactions. What I mean is I ask questions about how things I use everyday work, like a car or a computer. I am not going to be a mechanic or computer technician but I like to understand my surroundings. I do this because I feel the more knowledge you have, the more creative you can be.
2007-06-03 11:27:58 · answer #3 · answered by kenseavert 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To me philosophy is to me more important then all other fields. It is what we use to figure out what is our next best possible action. Everyone knows what philosophy is even if they dont know what the word means. We humans base our lives on our thoughts we are thinking beings before we are acting beings imo. Philosophy and understanding philosophy imo is the base for building wisdom. You can follow science fields like physics or astronomy but if you dont follow philosophy also all your knowledge gained is not amplified by the knowledge you gain when you understand how things effect you and others. I think the road to becoming enlightend is reflection of self and others philosophy is a great tool to use when u want to reflect upon self and especialy others.
2007-06-03 12:15:17 · answer #4 · answered by magpiesmn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have an ambivalent relationship with philosophy. Part of me loves it, but there is a part of me that knows all of this questioning usually leads nowhere. Philosophy is good for raising questions and trying to make sense of experience. But I am not confident that it is capable of providing satisfying answers to most questions.
2007-06-03 13:54:31 · answer #5 · answered by sokrates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a way for me to see the world in other ways. Its not just like black and white. Most people see things as one thing or another, good or bad kinda thing. I dont like that, it takes meaning out of everything. If you can see the depth in things then its more comforting, to me at least. Questions dont always have answers and if they did that would be quite boring. You would know everything and therefore life would have no meaning. If I only thought that things happen because something made them happen and that there wasnt a meaning for it i think i would go crazy.
2007-06-03 11:35:20 · answer #6 · answered by prettygirl_angel2007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy is often interesting, but making a hobby out of it, rather than practicing it is a waste of time. Philosophy is for the purpose of self-improvement, and an analysis of human reactions to events. In general, philosophy is kind of unneccesary. Unless you use magnificently poetic and persuasive language, no one really follows you, who didn't practice what you preached beforehand, anyways.
2007-06-03 11:11:21 · answer #7 · answered by Dinosaur 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Studying philosophy is good because you find out if your opinions, beliefs, actions and so on contradict one another or not. Which can be useful to know.
2007-06-03 11:42:21 · answer #8 · answered by emeraldas2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I regard philosophy as an art form... You can guide your life and all your actions with it!
My favored philosophers: Epicurus, and Socrates. and in general all the secular, existentialists, and humanists!
2007-06-03 11:59:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that when persons aspire to ascribe meaning and significance to garbled gibberish, they are simply pedantic practitioners of obscurantism...
And so "cat" might really be spelled "dog..."
How ya gonna know...?
After all...
This might be something worse than The Matrix...
It could be...
"The Matrice...!!! (doo wah!!!)
2007-06-03 15:09:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋