Why Study Philosophy?
Important as philosophy is to the world and the people in it, even I can see why a lot of people think it’s completely pointless. In fact, I know that as well as anyone: once you’ve studied a fair bit of philosophy you know just how quickly viewpoints which were once considered 100% right can be completely and utterly discredited.
The main problem – or the thing which dogs philosophy the most, depening on who you are – for me, is that philosophy is all about opinion. OK, most of it is based on fact somewhere or another, but there is a lot of philosophy that is very…well, made up. Actually there’s a lot of it that’s literally just been pulled out of fresh air and written down on paper. Add to that the way that a lot of philosophy is really inaccessible with big long words and sentences that take half an hour to make any sense, and you have a problem on your hands in trying to explain why philosophy is a good thing.
The last problem that philosophy has always encountered is the way that it’s very hard to make sense of. Even the experts have to consult books which interpret the greatest works, and even then there is a great debate over what is fact and what is fiction.
Still, those negatives aside, I will always love philosophy. There’s something magical about it, and I’ll never forget my uncle getting me onto it that time we all went to some Lanzarote Villas .
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