philosophy phucks 01/23/07

Subject : philosophy phucks
Posted Date: : Jan 23, 2007 5:13 PM

so im taking philosophy courses. two and unfortunately two too many. on the one hand there is an overview course called "what philosphy is" and the other hand there is "the philosophy of language and thought."

the first course is too shallow for my tastes. apparently its only goal is to teach you how to think as rigorously as a mathematician in your everyday reasoning. a worthy cause i suppose. few things can be more frustrating than dealing with people that have illogical jumps to ridiculous conculsions but at the same time... part of being human is taking leaps because there is rarely time for rigor. i guess thats probably why people live to be more than two years old. time enough to learn to think with enough rigor to not get yourself killed (at least not easily) but certainly not more rigorously than that.

its not the point though. the class keeps poking at ideas and examples of rigorous thought (like plato's touching on how to define justice ... or was it socrates) but there is no delving into a questioning of the thoughts that are posed. all the professor wants to do is raise questions without discussing them. ah well. i understand he has to push things forward so i guess if iwanna know more ill have to go lavar burton on his ass and read a book myself.

the other class jsut sucks. its about the logic of language not the philosophy. its lame. its basically doing logical proofs to explain language. i mean its neat and all but certainly not teaching me what i want to know and furthering my illogical frustration with philosophy. it hurts my fucking head sometimes. people are not more or less just and justice is not a skill and even if it were a skill then surely there can be people born without it so what do you do with the people that cant cultivate the skill of justice, socrates! what do you do! shoot them off into space! thats what you fucking do. no harm. no foul.

philosophy sucks.