What do you think about philosophy?
We had an intersting discussion in my philosophy class and I decided to ask you the same questions, cause I'm really curious what you think. :D
Our teacher asked us to define what philosophy is and what someone has to do to be a philosopher. So what do you think? Can anyone be a philosopher? And is philosophy important in everyday life or more important then other departments of sience? I know that European philosophy concentrates around the meaning of life and being. Is philosophy different in your country? I personally think that philosophy is important for people even if it gives no answers, because many people think and muse about the meaning of their lifes and they wouldn't if it weren't important for them. |
Philosophy IS the meaning of my life. I couldn't imagine my life without it, yet there is no clear way I could define it. It's like a definition of "a company". Both this terms represent such complex phenomenon that it simply can not be moulded into a clear definition.
The best I can do is to ofer you a school-thought definition which is rather general: Philosophy - the search for knowlage and understanding of the nature and meaning of the universe and of human life... I think philosophy sadly isn't very important in people's lives. I think there would be much less fighting and misery if it was. It's the only way for people to understand eachother. |
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taking up philosophy when i get to college. Anyone can be a philolsopher if they wanted to. Although they have to really enjoy philosophy to be good with it.
I think philosophy is important in both aspects of everyday life and departments of science. Philosphy can have alot of meanings, but in general it is about life and meaning. It can get so in depth, that you can learn so much about yourself and other people from other cultures. |
freddie I also think that philosophy should be more important. Our society is too materialistic and since you can't gain anything from pilosophy in a materialistic way most people think it's unimportant.
I'm not saying it's the most important science because I think that people should have a basic knowledge in every department, but I do think that philosophy is more important than some people realize. |
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I think we don't even have to KNOW what were doing here or where we come from..the important part is to start thinking about it. Because I don't think there are answers for those questions that apply for everyone. You for yourself can find an answer, but maybe it won't fit for someone else's life. I totaly agree with you that you can't even begin to solve problems when you are not willing to think about the meaning of what you are doing, what you should do and what others think. |
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That's excatly what I think. That's the good thing about philosophy. There are no answers and most definitly there are no right or wrong answers. The moment you find an answer to a philosophyc question it moves into another department of science and stops being philosophy. Philosophy is science. It's the mother of all departments of science. The Greek for example started studying the sky. But it were the Philosophers who did that. The moment they found an answer for a problem surrounding the stars, that answer and question moved into Astronomy. Philosophy is in a way the science of all the questions you can't answer with the other science departments. Quote:
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freddie that really was philosophycal :D and I totally agree. Most people don't even take the time to listen to other views, but other views are the only things that can open up your own horizonts of thinking.
Sometimes people even have the same view, but only express it in different ways, but never take the time to question the other one's or their own responses and after hours of fighting they reallize that they had been saying the same thing all along. Quote:
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well, personally i am in love w/ philosophy. i don't read the books or anything, i guess i haven't gotten around to it *how can i when ppl like parrish and pt post their material here?* however i will say this, my former economics teacher and present accounts teacher qouted something that rattled my mind for days! and made me realize mankind and his possibilities. and deep we can get if we could just settle ourselves long enough. it was at that moment that i fell in love. i find debating interesting as well. just something about the human mind and the things that run through it.......
as far as the question concerned w/ needing it in our everday lives, i believe that if taken in and understood thoroughly, the world would be in a better state. if ppl would sit down and let intelligence of these philosopher's at least rub off on them, we'd have a lot more conscienceness and tolerance and alot less hate and violence. thank you! :10x: |
A practical meaning of philosophy could be the guideline everyone follows on their life. I think it doesn't matter if a person knows the concept of philosophy he/she could be practicing it by thinking about his/her own existance.
Are we all able to be philosophers? Yes, it's only a question of thinking and being interested about the world around. |
I don't know nothing about philosophy but it sounds interesting. Can someone please make a list of the different schools of thought? The only one i've heard of is existentialism.
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I think philos should be something that everyone profundizes in at some point of their life, but not a subject taught at school. I took an exam on it and it's the most VAGUE subject ever. Once its yours, it's easy. But not TAUGHT. :/
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It's great to see so many people being positive about philsophy. Half of my degree was in Philosophy. And God are Philosophy students easy targets for jokes. Most of them, predictably enough, concerning starring out of the window for hours on end.
Then again, Sheffield University didn't help matters by putting the Philosophy department on the 12th floor of the Arts Tower. We had some incredible views over the Peaks, meaning it was pretty hard to resist spending seminars gazing out of the window. La la la. I'm glad I studied Philosophy. Even if it very nearly sent me strange in the first year, with too many questions in my head at once. It might not have given me any answers in itself, but it taught me how best to go about looking for them. It's taught me how subtle even an apparently simple question might be. This is reassuring, I feel less inadequate when I don't always have the solution. I think anybody can be a philosopher, but not everyone can be good at it. To see long-established problems in new ways takes a remarkable capacity for insight which, alas, very few of us will ever develop. |
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Philosophy astronomy and gastronomy is one of the kind - something for the body and something for the soul.
Confused? Don't be - that's what philosophy is. ;) |
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No deep thoughts on the meaning of life, space or anything. |
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the other goes about theological things.. but they are always connected with eachother the out come of the one often leads to the other... A whole new stream is about evolution which is often seen as the produkt of the two main groups described above... |
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