What is the point of philosophy?

Bernie Cerra: The question you are asking now is philosophical, what is the purpose? If you want to know go learn philosophy.

Shad Bushweller: This is old.It depends on how you define sound. if sound is the human sensation than no. If sound is the vibrations that cause us to perceive something than yes.

Floy Fague: There is no point and that is why we have philosophy.

Horace Escue: Its about opening your mind, learning to think in a different mind. Some don't get it because they are closed minded. Asking questions is why we evolved and progressed to where we are today.If you dont ask these questions where we we be?

Alise Rutgers: i imagine "who has it more beneficial sturdy" arguments serve no sturdy objective. same with declaring stupid custom's like conserving a door open for someone. I see no value in purposely attempting to create animosity adversarial to a gender. there are a kind of practices which legally discriminate and the most objective ! ought to stay on the actual shown actuality that they discriminate and that such discrimination should be bumped off. really anybody ought to consider their own protection, and that i really do not fault a lady for questioning about that once assembly someone unknown. although, publicly bringing up faux rape information, calling all adult men rapists and conserving all adult men to blame for the moves of an fairly few, isn't that. ~

Melvina Bieri: i think so but only God can hear it.

Ervin Laeger: low self esteem, feelings of inadequacies, and just plain dumbness

Coleman Petropoulos: Jealousy...

Danyell Rowback: By anti-intellectual I mean you do not want to learn about new ideas and think about life critically. And I do not mean that you become anti-intellectual for the rest of your life, just some period of time.thanks

Scot Sepulbeda: It's common to humans, came from Adam, and will be here until Kingdom Come-in short, a sin nature.

Monr! oe Rainey: No I actively seek those truths and am delighted to! get them and have some work to do - putting them into practise - Sometimes I feel overwhelmed at the idea of how to start but not enough to reject the idea.I suppose i have been at it long enough to change my attitudes about the whole idea of change

Maynard Reevers: egoism,enviousness...

Ira Porietis: It makes a sound into Mother Nature's wound... Thus, into all of our lives as a ripple effect of the reason why the tree felt... One tree is one life, thus its life affect to us all.

Porfirio Gartland: If this is true with any individual, "anti-intellectual" would mean the refusal to change when "truth...requires" a change in life. To refuse would mean eventual death, but in the short term a "requirement" to change would demonstrate itself in such a manner that one would be "required" to change, no matter his state of mind.Thus, anti-intellectualism would be overcome by such need, and the only effect it might have is to make the individual look ignorant or w! orse; or possibly make him look like someone to stay away from. But change he would, because as you word it, change is "required."...Show more

Lashawnda Anteby: If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to hear it does it make a sound?

Andrew Sinatra: people rarely look at what they have, it's always what they don't. Then they feel someone having something keeps them from having it. Ridiculous, but true. Imagine if everybody concentrated on making their marrage happy and the kids well adjusted...

Norma Marsalis: These are called Tetracts and everyone is born with a complete set of 7 or 8.

Myron Leftwich: philosophy makes you wonder. does not give answers but asks questions. is the path to knowledge, to understanding.

Benny Stehno: Human nature.

Craig Virani: Some people study it to become more aware of life. Others study it to become lawyers.

Barton Sease: i am asking a general question, its not related to me.

! Sharolyn Claybourn: once upon a time a pig flew and the event was witne! ssed by an entire village of people, unfortunately they did not keep written records, and none of them ever left the village, also they did not believe in mating so they all eventually died out... the knowledge of this event died with them, so did it happen?

Michelle Sohre: Philosophy is a method of training your mind and forming new opinions of things. It makes you open minded and clever

Rebbecca Sorkin: Steve Martin said this on one of his comedy albums: "I took philosophy in college. I learned just enough to f*** me up for the rest of my life."Not really much you can do with a philosophy defgree except teach others to be miserable too.

Salvatore Walls: it quite is stupid and is not something yet one guy or woman's opinion, so subsequently philosophy is actual a lie because of the fact it relatively is not based of definitely concrete information. the factor of philosophy is that there is none. it quite is a study made to make human beings experience sol! id approximately themselves and how they think of. there is genuinely no and that i repeat NO element to philosophy.

Myriam Hetjonk: It depends on how you define it, if there was a person witnessing that and if you take his word for it, that's one, if you don't believe the person, you might ask for a video tape. Again it depends on what you believe as a true depiction of events. If there was no one witnessing it, no one could say whether there was sound or not. It all comes down to what level you wanna analyze your senses.

Freeman Rutkin: philosophy is a religion for atheists.nihilism is my gravity; but i love to fly.

Adan Stribble: it still makes a sound, cause in that forest is still other animals and those animals around will get scared and run because they heard the sound.even if we ain't around to hear it something else is there to hear it.

Arleen Bussing: No one cause I think, so it would be "What are the causes". I vote for fear, greed, and je! alousy.

Eldridge Rieves: Nothing really has a point, philosophy i! ncluded. It's just super cool!

Curtis Josef: "We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. "--Charles Caleb Colton

Morris Cuomo: If you sit in a room by yourself and cry, does it really happen?Try to disgard anything you don't need. Why not travel light down the path of life?Sometimes things come to you with extreme clarity. So what do you see?

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Ilana Gaster: Knowing the Truth can never be anti-intellectual . In fact the nature has made us intelligent only to know the truth. New ideas and thinking critically about life is the basic purpose for which we all are here. Unless we examine ourselves critically there can be no scope for improvement. Knowing truth will certainly change the life and we must go ahead with it. It is a welcome step.

Antonia Mogg: Love your fellow man as you love yourself and you will not have those fealings.

Fermin Tara: To develop your own ! PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY.To come to some conclusions about how you are going to live your life. To increase your own wisdom about what is going to bring you happiness, success, vitality, and how you are going to act within your social group.

Javier Holsonback: I studied philosophy for about a year and a half out of interest, before switching to something more "practical" after I felt I didn't have enough talent to become a professor. But I wouldn't trade that year and a half for anything.I didn't really learn anything "concrete" that I could put my finger on (other than of course the history of philosophy), but what I did learn was more of an attitude, outlook, and way of thinking. I learned that, whereas most people simply take things uncritically for granted (just go look in the horoscopes, psychic, or alternative medicine sections of yahoo answers for examples) philosophers have a knee jerk reaction to question things upon hearing them. "Is there any evidence for these ! claims? What is the logical structure of this argument? What are the pr! emises? Are there any fallacies being committed?" Also, I feel philosophy (and especially logic) has helped me become much clearer in my thinking; I can recognize the structure of my own arguments and present them clearly to others. You also get a broader perspective and outlook on how different people think. You learn what some very smart people have said about the world. And, almost every claim people make nowadays, about ethics, metaphysics or anything can very likely be traced back to what some philosopher has said in the past. So by learning what philosophers of the past have said, you get an appreciation and understanding of what people are advocating and arguing for today, and already understand the issues somewhat. For example, sometimes I like to talk politics even though I am fairly ignorant of world affairs. However, usually I can take what my opponent is saying, and recognize the philosophical underpinnings (aha! so he's a communist/capitalist/utilitarian etc) a! nd so can press him in these assumptions rather then how most other people seem to debate politics (with emotionalism and sensationalism).This is what I learned anyways. Not everyone who studies philosophy may take away from it the same thing. In fact, I know a lot of philosophy majors who I think are not that bright, self-deluded, and seem to be incapable of admitting when they're wrong or when they don't know what they're taking about. Or maybe I'm not that bright, am self-deluded etc?And that's my rant....Show more

Clement Viscarro: of course. it makes a sound. that question never made sense to me.

Sammy Tabatt: Then the deaf man saw it.The blind man felt it.And the dead never knew to ask.

Bo Perham: yes