nikki show me a pic of yourself... plz :o :-*
ow some post-modernist thinks language is a prison house
Philosphy was the greatest class I took in college. A few years ago, I even bought a bunch of Philosophy college books off the internet just to read them. My brother is a Philosphy major and we spend hours talking about it sometimes.
Language has always seemed like it enables far more thought then it could possibly restrict. If anything the superfluous nature of our language allows are thoughts to be carried away into an endless stream of metaphysical nonsense.Quoteow some post-modernist thinks language is a prison house
This is the kind I like most, and I know most people hate it so I never bore anyone by droning on about it.
Yeah, I like philosophy a lot. I almost majored in it, but I wasn't interested in any of the primary careers that path leads to. If I could go back and do things again, I probably would be interested, knowing what I know now.
..and here I thought Mupepe was cool. My heart is broked.
If a fat girl falls in the forest, do the trees laugh? :lol
..and here I thought Mupepe was cool. My heart is broked.I am cool! We won't talk about philosophy if you want *mwah*
If a fat girl falls in the forest, do the trees laugh? :lol
Language has always seemed like it enables far more thought then it could possibly restrict. If anything the superfluous nature of our language allows are thoughts to be carried away into an endless stream of metaphysical nonsense.Quoteow some post-modernist thinks language is a prison house
This is the kind I like most, and I know most people hate it so I never bore anyone by droning on about it.
Yeah, I like philosophy a lot. I almost majored in it, but I wasn't interested in any of the primary careers that path leads to. If I could go back and do things again, I probably would be interested, knowing what I know now.
..and here I thought Mupepe was cool. My heart is broked.I am cool! We won't talk about philosophy if you want *mwah*
If a fat girl falls in the forest, do the trees laugh? :lol
Fat girls don't walk in the woods anyways. They wait til it's paved and they can take a taxi there.
My philosophy class was pretty awesome, but anyone who majors in it is wasting money.
:D..and here I thought Mupepe was cool. My heart is broked.I am cool! We won't talk about philosophy if you want *mwah*
If a fat girl falls in the forest, do the trees laugh? :lol
Fat girls don't walk in the woods anyways. They wait til it's paved and they can take a taxi there.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
I take it back, you're most awesome.
Are you talking about an intro informal logic course or an intro formal logic course. I see the value in the former, but the latter will have little practical value for most people. The informal logic class I took three years ago was one of the most valuable classes I have ever taken.
Also, all you haters: You ever take an intro to logic course? I guarantee you will learn quite a few things that will serve you well.
It's a good "base" degree. Law schools like em, medical schools like em (as long as you've taken the pre-med courses), and any academic discipline likes em.
I love cake.fixed
Sociology <<<<<<<<<<<<< ANAL RAPE
My philosophy class was pretty awesome, but anyone who majors in it is wasting money.
Our teacher was kickass. We watched The Matrix and Office Space to illistrate certain philosophical ideas (such as the idea of "nothing" and whether it truly exists). We read this amazing book called the Tao of Pooh. Awesome class.
The teacher was pretty young so maybe that's why it rocked so much
I love cake.Whatever floats your boat :heart
Sociology >>>>>>>> philosophy.
Are you talking about an intro informal logic course or an intro formal logic course. I see the value in the former, but the latter will have little practical value for most people. The informal logic class I took three years ago was one of the most valuable classes I have ever taken.
Also, all you haters: You ever take an intro to logic course? I guarantee you will learn quite a few things that will serve you well.
It's a good "base" degree. Law schools like em, medical schools like em (as long as you've taken the pre-med courses), and any academic discipline likes em.
Yeah... but you can't keep canceling your LSAT scores. :'(
And Phoenix, your philosophy class sounds like a joke.I love cake.fixed
Sociology <<<<<<<<<<<<< ANAL RAPE
Bah, why the hate on Sociology? It's like philosophy's inbred cousin!They seem to fail to integrate knowledge gained in other fields into their work, like Comte intended.
Sociology was created by a philosopher named August Comte. The first book with sociology in the title was also written by a philosopher, Herbert Spencer.
I bet that blew your mind little girl.
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Well people studied society before that point... they were called philosophers.Sociology was created by a philosopher named August Comte. The first book with sociology in the title was also written by a philosopher, Herbert Spencer.
I bet that blew your mind little girl.
:-\
Christ was a Jew. What's your point?
Sociologists couldn't have existed before Sociology.
Well people studied society before that point... they were called philosophers.Sociology was created by a philosopher named August Comte. The first book with sociology in the title was also written by a philosopher, Herbert Spencer.
I bet that blew your mind little girl.
:-\
Christ was a Jew. What's your point?
Sociologists couldn't have existed before Sociology.
Seeing as how I used the :-\ smiley face I wasn't really being serious. Nevertheless I do find it slightly ironic that your girlfriend dislikes philosophy when it gave rise to so many fields of study, from the natural sciences to the social sciences she prefers. Many philosophical ideas are antiquated, but they are nevertheless part of our intellectual heritage. It is also very difficult to avoid philosophical ideas that are contained in fields like law, politics or ethics. So a blanket condemnation on philosophy seems unwarranted.
That's my motherfucking point. I don't know whose mind you're trying to blow with your philosophers came before sociologists comment.
Dude, what kind of school do you go to? When you go to music class, do they show Amadeus? Inherit the Wind for any legal courses?
US community colleges sound like a joke. The sociology and psychology courses I took at a Canadian equivalent of a US community college used regular university text books and we didn't spend class watching movies.Dude, what kind of school do you go to? When you go to music class, do they show Amadeus? Inherit the Wind for any legal courses?
It was a college I went to. Basically I had to take introductory Sociology and philosophy classes, so they were pretty easy. I did wind up taking a higher sociology class and it was even easier. The subject just comes natural to me, allowing me to bullshit through the class without studying and still get an A. Ah those were the days.
Soft sciences. Nothing more than GPA filling for any student with half a brain and basic reading skills.
You could argue the same way about math, but I don't like math, either.Seeing as how I used the :-\ smiley face I wasn't really being serious. Nevertheless I do find it slightly ironic that your girlfriend dislikes philosophy when it gave rise to so many fields of study, from the natural sciences to the social sciences she prefers. Many philosophical ideas are antiquated, but they are nevertheless part of our intellectual heritage. It is also very difficult to avoid philosophical ideas that are contained in fields like law, politics or ethics. So a blanket condemnation on philosophy seems unwarranted.
That's my motherfucking point. I don't know whose mind you're trying to blow with your philosophers came before sociologists comment.
Mupepe, teach these boys about Pimpology, and help them minor in Whattabitchwantsology.I'm starting a class, registration starts tomorrow, bitches!
what, did all the moral and social relativism piss you off?Was this question directed at me?
Nah, his school just fucking sucks. I started out at a community college and it wasn't anything like that. That shit sounds horrendous.
US community colleges sound like a joke. The sociology and psychology courses I took at a Canadian equivalent of a US community college used regular university text books and we didn't spend class watching movies.
US community colleges sound like a joke. The sociology and psychology courses I took at a Canadian equivalent of a US community college used regular university text books and we didn't spend class watching movies.Dude, what kind of school do you go to? When you go to music class, do they show Amadeus? Inherit the Wind for any legal courses?
It was a college I went to. Basically I had to take introductory Sociology and philosophy classes, so they were pretty easy. I did wind up taking a higher sociology class and it was even easier. The subject just comes natural to me, allowing me to bullshit through the class without studying and still get an A. Ah those were the days.
Soft sciences. Nothing more than GPA filling for any student with half a brain and basic reading skills.
PD, you're treading your well-worn path into the Ignorance Zone (tm YOU) again.
PD, you're treading your well-worn path into the Ignorance Zone (tm YOU) again.Agreed. I think trying to read Kant or trying to do proofs in predicate logic is just a little more difficult than your business classes PD. Though philosophy is in the humanities and not the social sciences.
US community colleges sound like a joke. The sociology and psychology courses I took at a Canadian equivalent of a US community college used regular university text books and we didn't spend class watching movies.Dude, what kind of school do you go to? When you go to music class, do they show Amadeus? Inherit the Wind for any legal courses?
It was a college I went to. Basically I had to take introductory Sociology and philosophy classes, so they were pretty easy. I did wind up taking a higher sociology class and it was even easier. The subject just comes natural to me, allowing me to bullshit through the class without studying and still get an A. Ah those were the days.
Soft sciences. Nothing more than GPA filling for any student with half a brain and basic reading skills.
PD, you're treading your well-worn path into the Ignorance Zone (tm YOU) again.Agreed. I think trying to read Kant or trying to do proofs in predicate logic is just a little more difficult then your business classes PD.
Yeah the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus wasn't an easy read.US community colleges sound like a joke. The sociology and psychology courses I took at a Canadian equivalent of a US community college used regular university text books and we didn't spend class watching movies.Dude, what kind of school do you go to? When you go to music class, do they show Amadeus? Inherit the Wind for any legal courses?
It was a college I went to. Basically I had to take introductory Sociology and philosophy classes, so they were pretty easy. I did wind up taking a higher sociology class and it was even easier. The subject just comes natural to me, allowing me to bullshit through the class without studying and still get an A. Ah those were the days.
Soft sciences. Nothing more than GPA filling for any student with half a brain and basic reading skills.
West coast CCs are usually pretty good. . .some of them are really good, but anywhere else in the country is a toss-up.
And, yeah, PD, read some Wittgenstein and tell me what's easy again.
no, at nikki. The people that used to drop Intro to Philosophy courses either A) hated all the abstract language and high-falutin' terms -- or the insistence that you, y'know, DEFEND your arguments; or B) were actively distressed and angered by the notion of moral relativism when it came up.
I'd rather have fun here.
Upper level Philosophy seems more tedius than "hard" to me. Give me a book and tell me to write a paper and I can do it, no matter what.
Was he discussing George Barkley at the time?
I'd rather have fun here.
Upper level Philosophy seems more tedius than "hard" to me. Give me a book and tell me to write a paper and I can do it, no matter what.
Again, read some Wittgenstein and we'll talk. I also doubt you'd be able to grok even Derrida without instruction.
no, at nikki. The people that used to drop Intro to Philosophy courses either A) hated all the abstract language and high-falutin' terms -- or the insistence that you, y'know, DEFEND your arguments; or B) were actively distressed and angered by the notion of moral relativism when it came up.
I hate Intro to Philosophy because I don't give a flying fuck what some dead guy from the middle ages thought about things.
I've had classes devoted specifically to critical thinking, and I've had Logic classes for math. I can develop my own arguments for things, and I can think critically about the world around me. If the class was more about those skills, I'd be all for it.
As it stands, it's nothing more than a memorization fuckfest for guys like Descartes, Pascal, Clifford, and so on. I don't see any value at all in having to know exactly who thought what, and exactly what things like the fucking problem of evil are. What the motherfuck do I really care if some other schmucks do or don't believe in God?
Sociology was created by a philosopher named August Comte.
Yeah he created positivism as well. I believed he originally called sociology something like social physics.Sociology was created by a philosopher named August Comte.
Didn't Comte also start the ball rolling with positivism, or do I have my philosophers mixed up? I didn't know he created sociology.
Yeah he created positivism as well. I believed he originally called sociology something like social physics.
no, at nikki. The people that used to drop Intro to Philosophy courses either A) hated all the abstract language and high-falutin' terms -- or the insistence that you, y'know, DEFEND your arguments; or B) were actively distressed and angered by the notion of moral relativism when it came up.
I hate Intro to Philosophy because I don't give a flying fuck what some dead guy from the middle ages thought about things.
I've had classes devoted specifically to critical thinking, and I've had Logic classes for math. I can develop my own arguments for things, and I can think critically about the world around me. If the class was more about those skills, I'd be all for it.
As it stands, it's nothing more than a memorization fuckfest for guys like Descartes, Pascal, Clifford, and so on. I don't see any value at all in having to know exactly who thought what, and exactly what things like the fucking problem of evil are. What the motherfuck do I really care if some other schmucks do or don't believe in God?
..and here I thought Mupepe was cool. My heart is broked.I am cool! We won't talk about philosophy if you want *mwah*
If a fat girl falls in the forest, do the trees laugh? :lol
Fat girls don't walk in the woods anyways. They wait til it's paved and they can take a taxi there.
no, at nikki. The people that used to drop Intro to Philosophy courses either A) hated all the abstract language and high-falutin' terms -- or the insistence that you, y'know, DEFEND your arguments; or B) were actively distressed and angered by the notion of moral relativism when it came up.
I hate Intro to Philosophy because I don't give a flying fuck what some dead guy from the middle ages thought about things.
I've had classes devoted specifically to critical thinking, and I've had Logic classes for math. I can develop my own arguments for things, and I can think critically about the world around me. If the class was more about those skills, I'd be all for it.
As it stands, it's nothing more than a memorization fuckfest for guys like Descartes, Pascal, Clifford, and so on. I don't see any value at all in having to know exactly who thought what, and exactly what things like the fucking problem of evil are. What the motherfuck do I really care if some other schmucks do or don't believe in God?
Is there a better illustration of the educational divide than the above post? Ecro, it's not about memorizing the text, it's about knowing the argument and how to apply that argument to other situations. It's not a multiple choice problem with one correct answer.
no, at nikki. The people that used to drop Intro to Philosophy courses either A) hated all the abstract language and high-falutin' terms -- or the insistence that you, y'know, DEFEND your arguments; or B) were actively distressed and angered by the notion of moral relativism when it came up.
I hate Intro to Philosophy because I don't give a flying fuck what some dead guy from the middle ages thought about things.
I've had classes devoted specifically to critical thinking, and I've had Logic classes for math. I can develop my own arguments for things, and I can think critically about the world around me. If the class was more about those skills, I'd be all for it.
As it stands, it's nothing more than a memorization fuckfest for guys like Descartes, Pascal, Clifford, and so on. I don't see any value at all in having to know exactly who thought what, and exactly what things like the fucking problem of evil are. What the motherfuck do I really care if some other schmucks do or don't believe in God?
Is there a better illustration of the educational divide than the above post? Ecro, it's not about memorizing the text, it's about knowing the argument and how to apply that argument to other situations. It's not a multiple choice problem with one correct answer.
It is when I'm asked to restate Joe Blow's view on something for a test. I certainly can't go saying Pascal was an Evidentialist on my final if I have any plans to get a good grade.
And as such, I finished my final today, where I had to basically do just that.
no, at nikki. The people that used to drop Intro to Philosophy courses either A) hated all the abstract language and high-falutin' terms -- or the insistence that you, y'know, DEFEND your arguments; or B) were actively distressed and angered by the notion of moral relativism when it came up.
I hate Intro to Philosophy because I don't give a flying fuck what some dead guy from the middle ages thought about things.
I've had classes devoted specifically to critical thinking, and I've had Logic classes for math. I can develop my own arguments for things, and I can think critically about the world around me. If the class was more about those skills, I'd be all for it.
As it stands, it's nothing more than a memorization fuckfest for guys like Descartes, Pascal, Clifford, and so on. I don't see any value at all in having to know exactly who thought what, and exactly what things like the fucking problem of evil are. What the motherfuck do I really care if some other schmucks do or don't believe in God?
Is there a better illustration of the educational divide than the above post? Ecro, it's not about memorizing the text, it's about knowing the argument and how to apply that argument to other situations. It's not a multiple choice problem with one correct answer.
It is when I'm asked to restate Joe Blow's view on something for a test. I certainly can't go saying Pascal was an Evidentialist on my final if I have any plans to get a good grade.
And as such, I finished my final today, where I had to basically do just that.
That's just sloppyteaching. Please don't besmirch our fine discipline because some professors are teh ballz.