A lot of people misconceive philosophy as giving answers to technical questions.
Philosophy is about inquiry, and having others join in to a discussion.
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I think one of the most profound effects that we could have—which I think is shared with other kinds of philosophy we teach—is to give people practice in having productive conversations about important issues that are unclear to us and that we disagree about (for which, at least in some cases, the stakes are pretty high). We have discussions, try to reason together about things where the issues are not settled beforehand and we care about the answers.
For example, a lot of people care about the relationship between the mind and the body, how we are to live together, or whether or not God exists. In many of those discussions the personal and social stakes are high, we disagree about the answers and we don’t even know what the rules of the game are.
https://dailynous.com/2023/03/07/phi...king-together/
A lot of people misconceive philosophy as giving answers to technical questions.
Philosophy is about inquiry, and having others join in to a discussion.
Philosophy is best done by otherwise intelligent and smart people over a pint. When academics do it, you'd be better off dropping acid after consuming a quart of whiskey...
When God does things right, you don't think God has done anything at all...
anonymoose (03-15-2023)
Karl Marx wrote his PhD. in philosophy. A lot of people would say he was influential.
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