Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it
Ronald Reagan
It sucks that such a profoundly important field is also a refuge for wealthy failsons. They're like the academic equivalent of libertarians who only think in their bubble of individualism without considering how their ideas scale up. If you've read all of those books and your conclusion is the same as someone who has only read young adult novels, if your degree is in thinking and what you've come to think is any episode of a late night talk show, that degree is a waste of pa-pa's money.
I mean when I studied nursing I took medical ethics and now that I study horticulture I've taken environmental ethics. Those have use-value and affect the relationships that make the world happen. Dialectical materialism is important, natural philosophy and the philosophy of science did a couple of good things, and that whole existentialism-absurdism realm underlies our politics.
When you're 15 and you just discovered the political spectrum
He's an editor for a philosophy journal or something
It sucks that such a profoundly important field is also a refuge for wealthy failsons. They're like the academic equivalent of libertarians who only think in their bubble of individualism without considering how their ideas scale up. If you've read all of those books and your conclusion is the same as someone who has only read young adult novels, if your degree is in thinking and what you've come to think is any episode of a late night talk show, that degree is a waste of pa-pa's money.
It was even a waste of your time even.
I mean when I studied nursing I took medical ethics and now that I study horticulture I've taken environmental ethics. Those have use-value and affect the relationships that make the world happen. Dialectical materialism is important, natural philosophy and the philosophy of science did a couple of good things, and that whole existentialism-absurdism realm underlies our politics.
All true. I was adding to
Oops, misread that as a waste of my time.
Is all good comrade