So now or not long from now, it'll be the time you're at work again. Hope you got enough rest!
I always look at philosophers the way I look at any other person.
I look at philosophy as guidance coming from a usually very opinionated source. So in my opinion, those who actually make a decision to become philosophers have an overabundance of hubris and feel they offer something of great importance with their euphemisms.
Have any philosophically catchy euphemisms ever served to solve, heal or change things in the real world, or do they just make us sound like we're smart when we interject them into normal conversation?
And when you think about it, isn't literally everyone a philosopher, and not just those ancient guys they made into statues and for whom we are to have the deepest respect?
Child please. ;)
Not sure about solving but I also don't think many of the problems are solvable as much as they are mutatable. From the bits and pieces, I read philosophy has kickstarted many things in the sciences and of course, our current politics in itself is a problem-based in philosophy. I think maybe a good term might just be brainstorming. If I were to be a philosopher I would not aim to lead and rule but just go well here are some thoughts on the matter, debate so we can strengthen or do without then when that is done may be many more accept it and it becomes a guiding light to all... I don't think philosophy or the person philosophizing can be at fault for not starting revolutions and forcing their views down peoples throats.
Agreed everyone can be a philosopher, almost everyone. Many just are not and maybe those abusing their rule and the ones protesting now can be said to be part of a school of thought and that surely makes them philosophers? It is not that those old guys are the only ones but that they formed the foundation and probably just because they are the most popular. There are modern philosophers or people I guess they more officially refer to as philosophers because those are the ideals they lived by etc. Simplest example would be like the Marxist things and there were Sartre and people like that which I guess played their political card very heavily. I don't know too much of the people themselves and like I said don't care much for the modern things as they seem a bit twisted but all are based on something showing how thought has developed and changed.
That is the parts I like how ideas and such change or are still relevant. Sure I took a jab at the philosophers that are alive and I guess there are people shaping our futures alive right now with their philosophies whispered into the ears of the masses etc.
But I don't think philosophy is irrelevant since how can it be if it is so all-encompassing. Solving things though is up to people and just having an idea has never been enough hence Christianity rose so quickly as in its time it gave people the assurance which I think philosophy just can't. We have to accept we just don't know things, unlike religion.
Haha and thanx for the tip again but really not necessary also I think I might be contradicting myself a bit so maybe I too can be a philosopher?
What is Child?
My own, personal philosophy on life would be that we can't "plan" our lives. We can plan an education, a career, a wedding, a funeral, etc., but we can't plan our whole life before we've lived it. I think of philosophy sort of the way I think about HR; it's there, and it's always going to be there, but I'm not sure there is an overall value realized in the end when accounting gets it.
I think what any philosophy accomplishes, especially when widely accepted, is to induce a subtle form of manipulation over a substantial portion of the general population. I see it as a tool philosophical scholars have used many times to simply shame a person into acceptance, even if it's a completely superficial acceptance. Superficial still promotes the philosophy.
And that's what's important to a philosophical belief, ideal or way of life - acceptance.
There was a time when I had that respect for philosophers that most people have, but when I developed my own philosophy, I then only saw them as opinions with which I could agree or disagree. But that's just me.
I think too many philosophical ideals being presented today lean towards completely upsetting life as we know it, and with purpose. Some of these "ideals" have nothing to do with philosophy and everything to do with, for lack of a better term, brainwashing. But it hides behind the respected name "philosophy," when it's really scam philosophy.
"Child please," was a quote by Terrell Owens, an ex NFL wide receiver whose philosophy was to make a lot of noise and get lots of interviews. In one of the interviews I think he was sitting out of training camp because he wanted more money, and a reporter asked him if he was worried about getting cut I think, and he said, "Child please" as a rebuff. I like to use it when I can, lol.
!giphy seriously?
giphy is supported by witness untersatz!