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Philosophy: Who Needs It?
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One question that might be relevant might be:
1. Do you own your ideas or
2. do your ideas own you?
Like the Tareyton smoker would you rather fight than switch?
Would you fight to the death for a principle, a religion, capitalism?
That's what the people who run the country want, they just wind us up and send us to war, it really is that simple.
(I would say it is easy to slip from 1 to 2 so the best option is just to pick the best ideas like a customer picks food and if one proves not to work then swap it for another - I believe in continuous self-improvement - I don't always believe your first guess was the best one I'll ever have)
1. Do you own your ideas or
2. do your ideas own you?
Like the Tareyton smoker would you rather fight than switch?
Would you fight to the death for a principle, a religion, capitalism?
That's what the people who run the country want, they just wind us up and send us to war, it really is that simple.
(I would say it is easy to slip from 1 to 2 so the best option is just to pick the best ideas like a customer picks food and if one proves not to work then swap it for another - I believe in continuous self-improvement - I don't always believe your first guess was the best one I'll ever have)
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Are you implying that you yourself have no philosophy?
That word you are so fond of repeating, Eudaimonia, what does it mean?
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No.
Think carefully about what the video is saying. What is its message?
eudaimonia,
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This reminds me of quote, I don't remember the author, or the exact wording, so I'm paraphrasing. Here goes, "It's an immature ideal to die for a cause, a mature one to live for it instead.".
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Who needs philosophy? Obviously not the youth of today if we look at school curriculums in the Uk. I personally think there ought to be an option for it. Probably thought its not viewed as economically significant by the powers that be, and therefore marginalised.
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Great vid.
Maybe we can speak of philosophy as a cultural influence, and therefore something to be valued even if it isn't engaged with an individual's personal life, and also philosophy as a personal continuing practice. The latter, I think, is the ideal, but if we're speaking of human happiness, thinking can be a very difficult and painful thing unless you're appropriately skilled at not letting the mystery overcome you.
Maybe we can speak of philosophy as a cultural influence, and therefore something to be valued even if it isn't engaged with an individual's personal life, and also philosophy as a personal continuing practice. The latter, I think, is the ideal, but if we're speaking of human happiness, thinking can be a very difficult and painful thing unless you're appropriately skilled at not letting the mystery overcome you.
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Thought IS reality in a very primal sense. Since with thought one cannot help but philosophize, all of us are philosophers.
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Philosophy should be it's own thing. I only did the short course so didn't do philosophy in GCSE, only in A level. More people might pick it if it wasn't called religion. In fact religion could even fall within the subject of philosophy.
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