Philosophy

There was some relief in hearing people from way before my time putting words into jumbled thoughts that I had. Made me feel a little less alone. But it is also depressing how many people would actively shun it, thinking it is a complete waste of time (especially from my STEM classmates). Philosophy is also the first time my mind is actively challenged and engaged in school. I'm fortunate to have a very good teacher and I leave his class with my mind blown every time. And of course the existential dread.

All in all 10/10 life changing

Philosophy is the disease for which it should be the cure.

― Herbert Feigl, Inquiries and Provocations: Selected Writings 1929–1974

Honestly doing a philosophy degree hoping for existentialism it was more like:

"Best I can do is Wittgenstein truth tables and quantifier predicate logic"

Depends on the philosophy you are reading.

I like the stoics because it's about being a virtuous person. Many of the core texts we're written 2000 years ago but still hold up (mostly).

A lot of the teachings were incorporated into the bible but stoicism itself is religion light, although some of the authors held religious beliefs their sense of right and wrong wasn't predicated on eternal damnation.

However, you could read some of their writings as pro suicide, so trigger warning.

Is there a good philosophy instance on Lemmy?

Schopenhauer & Hegel: allow us to explain why existential dread is considered the optimal outcome!

We live in a very strange society when men like these become rich and famous.

Yeah, I always feel like Chidi making peep chili when I think about philosophy.

More like "I'm not going to answer your questions. Best I can do is give you new unjustifiable perspectives on old thoughts." One of the points of philosophy is to theorize on matters outside the domain of science.

Even enlightenment isn’t always liberating.

I feel like research neuropsychology is a better option personally. Understanding human decisionmaking is the crux of making sense of the world, and the physical structures of the brain are where that originates. Trying to make sense of its outputs without diving into the nuts and bolts (or neurons and axons I suppose) of the machine itself is always going to be very challenging. It's still a very young field, so there's not always that much there yet, but that just means a lot of work is available to be done.

Not that philosophy doesn't have its own merits in other ways.

The key realization is that the existential dread isn't the final destination, but a starting point of acceptance.

I'm fine with it.

The truth hurts

Let's make a philosophy out of that!

Philosophy is so boring and abstract when treated as an isolated field. Just recognize a principle or two already and realize you are, like most people, a socialist.

I love my philosophy training. one of my professors was a logician, who taught 2 separate courses on philosophy of science, and 3 logic courses culminating in one on epistemics. I feel like the single most prepared person in my life to deal with the modern media landscape, and practicing my skills each day keeps me sharp.

I literally only consume right wing news. left wing news uses a lot of the same pedestrian rsophistry, but I hate beating up on people ostensibly on my team, or feeling like they're the ones lying to me. I have no such compunction about Glenn Beck, mark Levin, or the chuds on YouTube, and so I never pull my punches and actually complete my analysis of their rhetoric (in my own head).