If your parents are rich, the sky’s the limit. Money can’t buy happiness supposedly, but by the institutional standards it buys all kinds of grandiose things like a certification that you truly pursue wisdom. With that I mean that you can pay tuition for philosophy to get a degree.
Come on. In the real world with the common redneck folk we spend our life paying bills with brooms and shovels. We can’t just slip out and go grab a degree. And I can’t accept the assumption that you can claim yourself a “self-taught” anything. At the very least, something that’s proven authoritative discipline (school, in theory) needs to review your own discipline (needs to certify you).
In short, I think it demands effort and authoritative review to truly be able to call yourself a philosopher. I think it’s total bunk if you should have to pay the equivalent of a mortgage down payment just to get it. So should I shrug and say “life’s not fair” or is it possible to earn some small certification related to philosophy with little or no money, on some of its basic disciplines? Like could I get a certificate in propositional logic? The universities aren’t talking to me. Can anyone give me a link or point me a direction?
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I want a cheap, small certificate relating to philosophy. If possible, where?
Is that strictly United States? I’m Canadian. Can I go to a teacher, fork a $100, do proof of propositional statements, and get a nifty paper?
Essentially, is there a specific program that awards you like the GED? That’s about a 7-hour test for something like $120. And if you pass you’re considered high-school equivalent. No textbook, no course, no nothing. Wam-bam-thankyoumam.
I would really take you up on such an offer. But what convinces me that you’re an educational establishment? I could care less if you were fraudulent. What I need to ensure is that you could convince my resume readers that you’re not fraudulent when I list your educational institute’s reference. Plus: Are you good enough of a fraud to convince local universities that my certificate with you earns in the smallest way some credit to one of their courses?
And as a side note- seeing as we’re all scratching our heads wondering if such a thing exists. Does it not offer some evidence that the world is out of its’ fucking mind?
You can’t be a philosopher if you’re not rich, at least not by any authoritative claim. Is that not what we’re admitting? Is that sane in any way?
