unless a voter also comments to say how they voted, voting is just throwing an anonymous token in a bucket. — Pfhorrest
I'm surprised that there are no students or associate's degrees. — Pfhorrest
Philosophy (as the imfamous badinage goes) really is the history of who said what when, and people who haven't learnt it aren't going to have a clue no matter what their native skill. — Isaac
nd yes, those who choose to get trained in it formally will inevitably pick up a bit of 'brainwashing' along with the methodology. It's not hard to break out of, but I think it's naive to image some kind of culturally neutral 'how to think' instruction could ever happen. — Isaac
Philosophy (as the imfamous badinage goes) really is the history of who said what when, and people who haven't learnt it aren't going to have a clue no matter what their native skill. — Isaac
philology - a study, interpretation and analysis - sometimes apologetic, rarely critical - of texts, as well as a history of ideas, or as you said, who said what when. — SophistiCat
And yes, those who choose to get trained in it formally will inevitably pick up a bit of 'brainwashing' along with the methodology. It's not hard to break out of, but I think it's naive to image some kind of culturally neutral 'how to think' instruction could ever happen. — Isaac
I am curious what people class as ‘self taught’. If it means they’ve read a couple of philosophical works then I’d call that ‘Not at all’. — I like sushi
Anywho, he argues in that first book that a certain degree/kind of indoctrination is necessary in education, but that of course you're counterbalancing that (hopefully) with giving students the very skills to then question the "indoctrinated" values, etc. — Artemis
Mostly though, it is reflecting on life as we live it, for better and for worse. That is the main entrepôt for evaluating reality. — Bitter Crank
with the names of the figures asking questions and proposing answers often just convenient names for those questions and answers, because we've got to label them something if we want to refer to them without restating them in whole over and over again. — Pfhorrest
One of the things that I liked most about philosophy classes as opposed to any other humanities classes was how we were never judged on what our answer was, but on how well-supported our argument for it was. — Pfhorrest
What about the entire pragmatism movement? — Isaac
I did a masters in applied ethics but I kind of regret voting and divulging that here. — Mark Dennis
As they should be really. — Mark Dennis
Was I being pissy about it? I was answering you tagging me? — Mark Dennis
I’m autistic, — Mark Dennis
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