Another words if you are a philosopher major, what are your reasons of becoming one, just as if you are a christianity what is his reasons?
Perhaps, the bottom line would be persuassion, but isn’t there something more? Faith? Having faith in philosophy will do you well, if you have taken your time of observance.
I became a philosopher because of persuassion, anf faith that it will do you well, and the delightful words from everyone and cousnlors, that philosophy is also a security job and can do everything . True or not I will soon find out.
Another reason is my parents. Pick a major you love and you think you will do well in it. Which then I cancel out my money security job majors; graphic design, pol sci, and film school. Final reason, my influences of one philosopher Bruce Lee. And I think without a philosopher who did not influence you, you are not suit up for it.
I would like to compare my influences with yours. IF that ye may provide.
I did it to piss God off, to make Satan jealous, to become smarter than my father, to expose the tragedy of my mother, to destroy the institutions that abused me as a child, and to show the world in general how it is terribly mistaken.
Oh, and to start trouble wherever I can.
I divide philosophy into two categories nowadays. There is bourgeois philosophy, which is “word fashion,” practiced by middle to upper class people (the majority of ILP). This includes acadamia and the luxuries of college education which afford the degree in philosophy. This kind of philosophical activity is parasitic to real material economy; the middle and upper class do not move the economy, they exploit it. The “philosophy” is a cover for “not having to work” and/or the means to persuade another that “one does work” only its a “different kind of work.”
The modern philosopher is a desk-jockey.
The other kind of philosophy is like a language science. It function is to unite the nobility (the working class) against the former “philosopher.” It consists of organizational propaganda and will always be the “left” in proportion to the mass consensus. History does one of two things: it either remains as a dichotomy of master/slave economic relationships, or evolves into a single class working type. The whole process of history works toward absolving this conflict between classes. In the former case, where bourgeois philosophy still exists, the elite hipocrit, who endorses relativism and individualism, but under the false pretensions of Platonic and/or Christian value systems, subordinates the lower class through “intellectualism,” “word craft,” the process of “making formal excuses not to work.” Yet this hipocrit is the first one to complain when I steal his car, or commit fraud, or avoid paying my taxes, expressions of my power to avoid having to work.
The last point to be made in the twentieth century is that capitalism is an enormous disaster and metaphysics do not exist. There is only historical materialism. The next five decades of “philosophy” will either come out of the mouth of the bourgeois, of out of the guns of the proletariat.
The rest is an intermission, a great “meanwhile in outer space.”
what about the person who has an intrest in philosophy for the sake of philosophy itself. I’m a college drop out, a bartender, a pot head, i’m taking Welding in school so i can make a living, and i read philosophy in my spare time. I read philosophy because i find it interesting. Mind you i haven’t read much(Plato-Euthyphro, Appology, Crito, Craytulus, Theaetus,Sophist) Nietzche- Beyond good and evil) but i look at philosophy as a work in progress. You start and when you die your finished.
I am majoring in Philosophy because I want to think clearer. But there is a problem. English is a second language to me, and philosophy needs complex words to describe the complex ideas precissely as they come to me.
I’m going to start taking a degree in Philosophy in september.
The practice of philosophy has intrigued me ever since I read “Sophie’s World”, and after taking it as one of my subjects in high school my interest was only strengthened. I felt that my eyes were opened to some of the essential questions about human existence, and I started to wonder more about our place in the world, the nature of our universe, how we can all live together in peace and harmony(the latter also inspiring me to become interested in Political Science). I also became more atheistic at this point, so another question that concerns me is the possibility of creating atheistically founded ethics.
I have been much in doubt about my future career, so finally I decided to take a path where doubt would be an essential trait to have in order to succeed. A true philosopher questions everything(or so I imagine). Its also a nicely broad subject, and it touches many other subjects, but at a nice theoretical level(I have always, throughout my entire education, preferred theory to practice).
I do not think I will end up “profiting by being useless”. I plan on becoming a teacher, possibly at a high school. Though I’d prefer to be able to make a living writing books, as my great ambition is to become a succesful writer, not neccessarily of philosophical books, though.
'trop you forget that even with such jurisprudence, Marx could not forsee the little magic box. Upon which millions of ignorant proletariates drool on primetime, this will indeed act as deterent to such an extent that the inevitable rise may be suspended indefinetly.
In one word I can sum it up; Freedom. Few people understand how wildly variant philosophy is in regards to careers. For instance the realm of philosophy helped create the theory of atoms. Without philosophy there would not be alot of things in this realm and without those things there would be no philosophy. But most importantly it makes me excited to think of things differently.
I study some philosphy on my spare time because I think it helps my mind grow to hear different views on stuff.
I believe benjamin franklins quote,
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Therefore, I do not study philosophy for philosophies sake, I study it b/c I think it will help my mind which will in turn help me in my future lives goals. (some of which are musical and career oriented, also I want to expand my ethical outlook.)
but in the meantime, I find it often amusing (the witty jokes, the funny arguments etc) to be on these forums as a by product of sharpening my mind.
Ha! I wish there were more to it, I wish philosophy were more exciting, I wish…I wish I was wrong, SIATD. My words are as stale as the arguments that what I say isn’t true.
To think that life started on this rock, will go through these phases, and finally dissappear from existence, isn’t a quarter as exciting as all the metaphysical hubbub I come up with when I’m stoned.
Oh the irony. You praise me for my words…I hate them.
Detrop, if your ever really bored there’s about a few billion people who could use your help. Spread the wisdom like peanut butter and the knowledge like jelly, so that everyone can enjoy a great PB sandwich
