After a ridiculously difficult maths prelim my hopes for the music prelim are not high. I had 3 hours to finish the paper and yet I still ran out of time and as a result I've felt tired ever since.
Last week's Descartes stuff would have been more enjoyable if we didn't do Descartes to death in school - as we did Hume as well then I assume that the same will be true for next week's work but nonetheless this doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it.
Seen an increase in people dissing Philosophy to me recently - for a while in the face of it I just make fun of it myself so that other people don't have to but it's always the same 'Shouldn't you be doing something useful?' 'What career options do you want to get out of it or will you just work at McDonald's?' kind of thing. It tends to come up in any kind of topical discussion, relevant or not. It's as though other people are making me seem pretentious and cocky about it when in doing so it's making me the opposite and as much as I want to study Philosophy as a subject (I enjoy it and throughout school it was what I was best at) the thought of identifying as 'a Philosopher' brings with it so many negative connotations to the point where I'm losing sight of why I think Philosophy is so important.
It's not about finding all the answers to all the questions. We have something for that anyway - science. It's not about getting rich. It's about being critical and open minded and aware of our limitations, including the limitations of science. Philosophy is a means for people to express themselves through thinking for themselves. Furthermore, important fields of work like the scientific method and law have branched off from Philosophy, or at the very least philosophical thinking. Philosophy has contributed so much to the world and I think where the world is right now we need more Philosophy, not less, to help tell us where we humans are going disastrously wrong.
Philosophy doesn't need me to defend it of course but I definitely need to keep defending my study of it to myself or else it'll really get to me. Regardless, there isn't anything I'd rather study unless I go down the Maths route but my question to you is what makes Mathematics more useful than Philosophy?
Had my first proper driving lesson yesterday followed by a party which I think I needed but quite frankly I have no idea what to expect from the coming week. Good things hopefully!
Gertrude
After a ridiculously difficult maths prelim my hopes for the music prelim are not high. I had 3 hours to finish the paper and yet I still ran out of time and as a result I've felt tired ever since.
Last week's Descartes stuff would have been more enjoyable if we didn't do Descartes to death in school - as we did Hume as well then I assume that the same will be true for next week's work but nonetheless this doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it.
Seen an increase in people dissing Philosophy to me recently - for a while in the face of it I just make fun of it myself so that other people don't have to but it's always the same 'Shouldn't you be doing something useful?' 'What career options do you want to get out of it or will you just work at McDonald's?' kind of thing. It tends to come up in any kind of topical discussion, relevant or not. It's as though other people are making me seem pretentious and cocky about it when in doing so it's making me the opposite and as much as I want to study Philosophy as a subject (I enjoy it and throughout school it was what I was best at) the thought of identifying as 'a Philosopher' brings with it so many negative connotations to the point where I'm losing sight of why I think Philosophy is so important.
It's not about finding all the answers to all the questions. We have something for that anyway - science. It's not about getting rich. It's about being critical and open minded and aware of our limitations, including the limitations of science. Philosophy is a means for people to express themselves through thinking for themselves. Furthermore, important fields of work like the scientific method and law have branched off from Philosophy, or at the very least philosophical thinking. Philosophy has contributed so much to the world and I think where the world is right now we need more Philosophy, not less, to help tell us where we humans are going disastrously wrong.
Philosophy doesn't need me to defend it of course but I definitely need to keep defending my study of it to myself or else it'll really get to me. Regardless, there isn't anything I'd rather study unless I go down the Maths route but my question to you is what makes Mathematics more useful than Philosophy?
Had my first proper driving lesson yesterday followed by a party which I think I needed but quite frankly I have no idea what to expect from the coming week. Good things hopefully!