I wish that I had enough time and money for philosophy, and in the meantime I am improvising. I would love more time and money to spend on philosophy.I feel that we live in such an upside down world. I think of philosophy as more of a default position or activity for trying to make some sense of it.

Philosophy and philosophical discussion is a wealthy persons hobby.

Maybe broke, ain't poor ...

You must go on.
I can't go on.
I'll go on. — The Unnamable

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Don't have enough time and money to do philosophy

What are you trying to get out of doing philosophy? What do you hope to achieve by it?

What are you trying to get out of doing philosophy? What do you hope to achieve by it?

Philosophy

Take a look at Schopenhauer. He was wealthy. He never worked for survival. He had enough time to read, study and write. He's truly a philosopher (not just philosophy professor as many).

We live in a time where work to make money takes good part of our daily time. More than before. No time to read enough books or to research or to write.

Are you free?

... of what? from what? for what? to do what?

To rephrase, do you believe that what you're experiencing is freedom?

If not, what keeps you from revolt?

Yeah.

There is only one freedom of any importance, freedom of the mind. — Iris (2001)

You want to do philosophy for philosophy's sake??


And Schopenhauer was a spoiled trust fund kid.

And Schopenhauer was a spoiled trust fund kid.

Definitely he was. Because of this he had enough time and money to be a great philosopher.

Philosophy that is cut off from real life is of no relevance.

I was under impression, philosophy is something that cost nothing. Just sit down and think about something in critical way, that is philosophy, is it not?

Philosophy – (free) thinking – only costs (free) time. If you're financially secure or independent, and do not have to spend most of your waking hours making a living (more than living a life), then you have plenty of time for philosophizing (study, contemplation (solitude), dialectical discussions, writing); otherwise, you don't have much time to think which makes it much harder to do, but not impossible.

The trick is to philosophise at nights when everyone is asleep, or during days coffee breaks and lunch times, and the weekends. When others are busy enjoying themselves shopping dinning and galavanting around ... we philosophers would sit in the corner of the garden or a room, and entertain the deep thoughts. :)

More or less how I've always done it.

More or less how I've always done it. — 180 Proof

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Philosophy costs nothing. And is "worth" nothing. Sad but true.

Ditto for lots of mathematics. :sad: