Well, this just gives philosophers a bad rap if you will. — Posty McPostface
I am taken aback by how many more problems appear if there are no real solutions. — Posty McPostface
Then forget the very idea of a 'real solution' - a chimaera that leads one to think 'quietism' has any content other than it's own guilty conscience. The only question is what the real problems are. — StreetlightX
To be able to address different contexts in philosophy. — Posty McPostface
You did not, but the link suggests that. As it is about remembering particular details necessary for passing a test in school. Memorization, repetition, mnemonic devices and such. — All sight
Didn't realize writing about nuclear weapons is a prerequisite for good philosophers to abide by. — Posty McPostface
Hope I clarified that issue somewhat. — Posty McPostface
Personally, I refuse to learn from anybody who has not written about nuclear weapons. — John Doe
What can obstruct such an observation is that it can quickly reveal than we, including almost all the so called "experts", are not the intelligent rational people we like to assume ourselves to be. — Jake
As example, writing an article about Plato as your kitchen catches on fire could be labeled philosophy given that Plato is generally seen as an important philosopher. But surely such an activity could not be labeled an act of reason. — Jake
Personally, I choose not to give much attention to thinkers who can't reason their way to grasping that the kitchen fire is a more pressing matter than their Plato article. — Jake
What nuclear weapons can teach us is that as human beings we have a very tenuous relationship with reason. We think we are reasoning, but usually what we are doing is referencing authority, typically in the form of the group consensus. — Jake
I like W.T. Jones, a five-volume set. He's more modern and readable. Also, he understands his task is not to make a philosopher of you, but to introduce you to philosophers and their thought from the pre-Socratics through the 20th century. In my opinion you can leave modern philosophy strictly alone. In any case to make any headway there you will have to have some grounding in what came before them.
This set, maybe with a good dictionary of philosophical terms, isn't so much to be studied like a bible, but rather read as quickly as possible, with return as necessary. Unfortunately, there is no good history that is free enough of error in itself to be reliable. — tim wood
I don't know it. But if it's respectable, why not? There are also so-called 60 minute introductions to this or that philosopher. And "Idiot's Guides" to. All this is introductory and pretty much whatever you take on is subject to refinement if not correction. At the outset, you're just jumping into the pool, or running into the waves, whichever you prefer - getting wet - a first set of steps before swimming.It seems difficult to get hold of the WT Jones 5 volume set. It is also very expensive.
How about Anthony Kenny's 4 volume History of Western Philosophy? — Corvus
I don't quite get yet how philosophy should be studied?
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