Just a curious point, and I'm definitely not trying to start any arguments here - but out of interest, what do people here think of philosophy? It's just personally, I find it pretty much pointless. A lot of other subjects that I'm not so keen on I can at least appreciate and see the use of them - philosophy however isn't one of them.
Talking to some of my friends it seems to be a very marmite (love it or hate it) type subject - but I do struggle to see its use! If I'm thinking very outside the box then I guess it encourages people to think differently... but I wouldn't say it's a better way of thinking per se. Just different. I sat through a couple of years of it, and all we did was argue for hours on completely pointless topics like "what are we doing here", "how do you decide what's right and wrong" and "if a tree falls and there's no-one around to hear it, does it make a sound?" If it could provide us with some definitive answers to the above I'd be all for it - but it seems all it actually does is ask questions and then teach people to spend ages trying and failing to answer them.
That's it really - is there something huge I'm missing here, am I being really harsh or does anyone feel the same about it?
Talking to some of my friends it seems to be a very marmite (love it or hate it) type subject - but I do struggle to see its use! If I'm thinking very outside the box then I guess it encourages people to think differently... but I wouldn't say it's a better way of thinking per se. Just different. I sat through a couple of years of it, and all we did was argue for hours on completely pointless topics like "what are we doing here", "how do you decide what's right and wrong" and "if a tree falls and there's no-one around to hear it, does it make a sound?" If it could provide us with some definitive answers to the above I'd be all for it - but it seems all it actually does is ask questions and then teach people to spend ages trying and failing to answer them.
That's it really - is there something huge I'm missing here, am I being really harsh or does anyone feel the same about it?