I used to be interested in philosophy back in highschool, but now it’s just not doing it for me. Alot of it just seems to be like I think therefore I am, but if I wasn’t I wouldn’t be because if I was I would, but if I couldn’t, then I wouldn’t be able to, and if i… like bro maybe I’m dumb, but wtf are these dudes on about??? 😭
On another note, some of the worst of it like Nihilism goes so well hand in hand with capitalism.
I’ve got a master’s degree in this field and I can honestly say that the only purpose of it is to be fascinating by itself. There are no practical application of philosophy in general because practice is a controversial topic like everything else. I’m just a pretty privileged dude that got into it at univ because it’s the biggest luxury I will ever afford in my life.
However there is one thing I am certain of is that a non-elitist teaching of some philosophy would be great in a socialist school, to get to fully know dialectical materialism and how it differs from other positions.
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I think philosophy could have the potential to help people out with some existential big-think problems in their head (or make it worse, lol). Intros to a variety of stuff made easily understandable would be very valuable in K-12 IMO as it could help show people how broad thinking styles can go, most of us are taught one way to think and we think it’s the only way everybody on the world (besides perhaps a spooky “Other”) thinks.
I had this social studies type of class back in highschool and I remember learning about Utilitarianism. I thought was cool because it actually dealed with how society organized itself, but of course, it lacked any real enforcement mechanism because it would rub up against Western notions of liberalism (as do pretty much all other philosophies).
Alot of the other shit just seemed so unnecessarily heady. Like how many times can you expand and expound on the idea of the universe being so oh so pointless. Like I get it, alot of people probably did a bad job of quotemining Nietzsche, and they’ve now come to conclusion that waaah nothing has meaning.