Troy Monsivais: I would go into politics with a philosophy major. But I will warn you a philosophy major isn't that marketable. Which is weird considering how much of the world can be understood through philosophy.
Aron Ramu: it depends on how people view it, because they mite hat it and try to stay away from it or love the ideal and embraces it for what it is
Ermelinda Stalnaker: Metaphysics
Derrick Smsith: Philosophy is not something that can be defined in specifics. It is someones opinion on life. So, who's truth would you choose to be set in stone?
William Vickerman:
Emilie Santmyer: Initial question:I would suggest your philosophizing about the worth of philosophy, even if you did not realize it, demonstrates its immense worth. (Said with a smug grin.)Second question. Assuming that is what it is and you forgot to capitalize the first world in it:The truth....Show more
Dorine Nurre: Create your view please, the topic refers in gen! eral matters. As you please.
Cassidy Pangrazio: Philosophically speaking, it depends on his grasping capacity and wave-length. If the wave length does not match, either he will reject others or others will reject him. I think It is similar to magnetic attraction.
Vickie Clampett: Honestly, it is a pretty pointless major because it will not qualify you do do anything. The question you need to ask yourself is WHY you are at university!If you're looking to go on to law school afterward, major in Psychology because it will give you the study tools to succeed in law school.If you're planning to become a teacher, major in any teachable subject (English, History, Math, Science, etc.)So in other words, Philosophy is OUT!...Show more
Victor Macallister: Because we are limited by human understanding. In my experience, the more someone studies philosophy, the more they begin to understand how truly little they understand. You have to ask yourself, what is truth? Wha! t we call reality is just our perception of the world, which i! s different for everyone.
Aubrey Tirri: Philosophy is more of a point of view, than a list of facts.
Irma Poiter: For the vast majority, it is the determining factor.
Jefferson Sarson: Art and truth are not mutually exclusive.Truth is of the Genus: Identification and of theDifferentia: the non-contradictory identification of reality. http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Dictionary.h...This requires "The conformity of a proposition to the way things are. Precise analysis of the nature of truth is the subject of the correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, redundancy, and semantic theories of truth." http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/t9.htm#truth"Truth (or falsity) as predicated of "ideas" is today normally restricted to those which are propositional in nature, concepts being spoken of as being exemplified or not rather than as being true or false." http://www.ditext.com/runes/t.htmlOf such propositions, "A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if! it takes a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion nevertheless to be false. Otherwise, a deductive argument is said to be invalid."A deductive argument is sound if and only if it is both valid, and all of its premises are actually true. Otherwise, a deductive argument is unsound." http://www.iep.utm.edu/v/val-snd.htmYour proposition that philosophy may be an art thus might be "sound", but the case could be made that your idea of "truth" is not "valid" when it excepts "art"."...the truth or falsehood of [ ] propositions rests, not only on their relation to the facts [asserted], but also on the truth or falsehood of the definitions of the concepts [used] to assert them, which rests on the truth or falsehood of [the] designations of essential characteristics..."The predicate in such a case states some characteristic(s) of the subject; but since it is a characteristic of the subject, the concept(s) designating the subject in fact includes ! the predicate from the outset. If one wishes to use the term “tautolo! gy†in this context, then all truths are “tautological.†(And, by the same reasoning, all falsehoods are self-contradictions.)"When making a statement about an existent, one has, ultimately, only two alternatives: “X (which means X, the existent, including all its characteristics) is what it isâ€â€"or: “X is not what it is.†The choice between truth and falsehood is the choice between “tautology†(in the sense explained) and self-contradiction." http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/truth.htmlRemember at the top, we learned:Truth is of the Genus: Identification and of theDifferentia: the non-contradictory identification of reality? Philosophy requires the art of non-contradictory identification, but that necessarily designates the non-contradictory identification of an existent to be the "truth" when we understand "truth" to be "the conformity of a proposition to the way things are."If "the way things are" is not a truth, than nothing is. "Art" and "truth" are ! not mutually exclusive....Show more
Teodoro Lamond: because it is an idea from a person that may not be the beliefs of an otherjust like everyones painting is different, everyones thought and ideas are as well especially on certain subjects
Lewis Ranft: Philosophy means to think. You are searching for the truth about things and ideas that cannot necessarily be proven. I suppose because it deals more with thought processes and concepts it is called an art. It does include statistics and math, etc., but those are in everything that exists. :)
Azzie Trembly: Philosophy is for your personal needs. Philo -Love Sophy- Knowledge
Hubert Jestes: If college is judged as a job training school,then DeVry and ITT are the highest toolof use to the modern citizen,but just maybe we're called to be a denizenof the earth in an ever more complex world,and must understand what has unfurledfor age upon age of writing people,in the senate house, or under college steeple,t! o discern more info from more varied source,a more complete education i! s required of course,than just job training and that is true.What Philosophy will give you is nothing new,and you're likely to certify after you graduate,in welding, or business, or law school to abatetoday's hunger, but it will always be true,a Philosophy degree will grow what is you....Show more
Donella Vasta: because its shows the dark corners of a persons mind beautfly as if it was a poem or painting it can never be truth cause it can not be understood as easy as that
Catheryn Barringer: This is why philosophy is so mis-understood in the world today. What would you do with a degree in philosophy ? What kind of job do you want ? Philosophy has changes and most don't even realize it. At one time there were those who had insights that had either never been had before or were never expressed before. They were philosophers, people of original thought. Now people take some college courses and study those great thinkers and believe themselves to be philosophers. P! hilosophers can not help but be more curious than the average person and can not help but to pursue answers and knowledge. There are no doubt thousands of people lost in thought that never comes to anything for every one person who makes great advances in thought. I do think, however, that we each have small revelations that fit our individual lives and keep the hunger for knowledge alive. If you want to make a living in the philosophy field, it is probably up to you to blaze your own trail. Of course there are those who teach philosophy but those jobs are not that many. You could write books and give lectures but the trick is selling your product whatever it is....Show more
Joan Stavropoulos: What can possibly be understood through using philosophy if the human experience is subjective anyway??
Cordia Fivecoat: 1.Philosophy always asks questions; it never arrives at a truth because2.Truth, like morals and beauty, is in teh eyes of the beholder.~
Rosella F! igliola: I wouldn't even go to law school with one. Next to Art History! , it's about the most useless degree a person could pursue. If you like it, study it in your free time. Youtube has some incredible lectures, so does iTunes - - but do NOT ever think that you will be able to pay the rent with it.
Moira Woodrow: We wont know for 10,000 more years.
Isaias Badgley: with out Hitler and the NSDAP Germany does not have been in the placement the place they had to circulate to conflict, the comprehensive premise of the Nazi “restoration†from Weimar hyperinflation became in step with going to conflict to recoup their costs. With the excellent thing approximately hindsight it could be obtainable to declare that Guderian could have been efficient, although if he have been in part efficient and under 3 hundred,000 had escaped from Dunkirk, Germany became not militarily equipped to invade Britain. At a consumer-friendly point they had no safeguard way of transporting an invasion tension around the Channel â€" the “proper protection te! nsion minds/strategists†had not made arrangements to transport their troops. It became inevitable that they stalled, probable the proper probability became to starve Britain right into a treaty with the U-boat and floor fleet â€" as quickly as lower back the proper minds had surpassed over the prospect to construct airplane companies or perhaps value airplane with the objective of attacking the relax barriers â€" the Royal military and the Royal Air tension â€" no heavy bombers, no long variety fighter airplane so as that even the medium bomber tension ought to not be secure. Von Rundstedt admitted in his diary that it became he who cautioned Hitler to halt the tanks and permit the attack on the stranded BEF and French troops to be undertaken via the infantry gadgets supported via the Luftwaffe. This became to shop the armoured gadgets to attack the relax French armies whose armoured gadgets have been the equivalent, in theory, to the German. further there is genuinely n! o information that any of the German forces had any inkling that the Po! les and the British had compromised Enigma, so in spite of out Hitler’s help they does not have replaced the code (fairly different than for the price, training and logistical standards of adjusting the alerts shape of the Reich). on the top, however, the placement of dictator is often certainly one of paranoia, each modern-day dictator has had to eliminate astute and able leaders (skill opponents) to augment their very own place, they might desire to have a finger in each pie or they're going to fail.
Janeen Perona: ***** that's some deep ****(sarcasm)
Arlen Hamper: because it is the nature of philosophy to question. for philosophy to be considered the truth there would have to be consensus about what that 'Truth' is; it is not exactly common for all philosophers to agree- that is part of what makes philosophy so fascinating. that, combined with the fact that some philosophers don't believe that there are definite truths, and some others think that truth is n! ot something we can know, would make declaring philosophy to be 'the Truth' kind of paradoxical...Show more
Jude Kennelly: Yeah, it really is. Not too much you can do with that degree but I still find Philosophy very interesting nonetheless...
Burt Cheevers: You need to be noble to major in Philosophy.
Verena Koop: Nothing other than a teacher. Of the same, I would think.
Raleigh Lufkin: Thanks.
Kellie Waycott:
Penelope Armond: Because, with very few exceptions, the concepts involved in philosophy are subjective. There are no correct answers, we're just giving our opinions here & sharing how we feel... like poetry... it's an art of the human mind. :-D
Jorge Detlefs: Do I need the often worthless work of post-Jesus philosophers?
