Fresh take: it is pretty much necessary to be university educated in philosophy to be a halfway decent philosopher. Philosophy is too difficult and vast a subject to be able to come to grips with it by yourself, reading alone. You will be reinventing the wheel, thinking that you have come up with some new train of thought that has already been discovered thousands of years ago, unless you are properly educated on the history of philosophy, which requires the assistance of a professor, back and forth conversation with peers and more highly educated people to check your understanding. You will also not learn to articulate your thoughts, or to reason and back up your arguments thoroughly, to the extent that the greatest philosophers do, unless you are aided by others, and receive constant feedback and peer reviews of your work. I do not understand why people on Yea Forums seem to think that if you simply read some philosophy on your own, that you will be able to actually be able to be a decent philosopher, or to come up with good philosophical writing. Sure, it's possible, but it's extraordinarily difficult. I don't know why it is that people seem to think that you need a Phd in physics to be a physicist, but you can be a philosopher by reading a few Nietzsche books on the side --it's time to dispel this myth. To further emphasize this fact, just take a look at any philosopher worth his salt: they all have phd's in philosophy.
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Fresh II: there are no openings for philosophers. All positions have even filled
No worries, there are plenty of positions where philosophy graduates can throw their life away for money outside of academic philosophy
Yeah, like machine learning for example.
>dude academia is a social club
thanks for the stunning insight there shakespeare
>data archivists
>lovers of wisdom
Fucks are going to be so blown away in the coming years there will be no going back. If not by the writings of some NEET then by the catastrophe of anti-humanist interest securities.
Fresh Take: There has never been a philosopher
The academic revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
>the academic revolution
please, tell me more.
A great philosopher and a wonderful man. Rest in peace, Mr. Parfit.
he was the absolute real deal. Probably was one of the most patrician people alive. The man would literally read Kant while brushing his teeth.
>encouraging mediocre people who need such supports
Corollary: Academics, grad students, and undergrads outside philosophy departments -- especially other humanities and the social sciences -- should not be able to touch philosophy at all without at least undergraduate and continuing post-graduate study in philosophy (this includes continental philosophy).
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Coronary: Burn down the museums.
"They have established time as a barometer of understanding. When a work wallows in the monstrous and inept brain of public opinion for an impressive number of years, then this work that has not been eaten but soiled by the saliva of society is accepted in the museum. It is recognised."
it obviously isn't necessary. it's just a lot more difficult to properly educate yourself without any sort of curation or social support system. clearly some people do, though.
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philosophy is nothing more than an unnecessary recursive exploration of simple things that are not difficult to understand. its embarrassing really. what has philosophy contributed to the world other than more suffering and more blowhards?
>philosophy is nothing more than
Stopped reading after that.
Nowadays you have to get a PHD just to be poor
The world sucks
so should I just not read Plato, Aristotle et al.?
Nah, this is bollocks; academic philosophy only values certain kinds of philosophy and labels all others as 'esoteric' or 'wrong think'. They do not approach every new form of philosophy with an open mind, they all have very similar opinions to one another and they are groomed to not come up with new ideas or thoughts but instead just muddle over what the semantics of long dead men used to say to one another.
Opinion DESCARTED.
Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus, Plotinus never went to university.
Those people over here did
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>t. never took a philosophy course
I'm kinda split on this. On the one hand I agree that the unexamined life is not worth living and that philosophy is the greatest thing you can study but on the other hand I dont want to end up as a wagecuck working menial jobs.
I mean I spent 4 years studying it so I should know, right? Phil study is either masturbating the literary ghosts of long dead mean, rarely women, or writing masturbatory fan fiction about it.
you might end up feeling worse, or better, but practically speaking philosophy does nothing for you except train your mind to be critical of what it absorbs.