Topics Philosophy

Question philosohpy is for the stupid. now im not trying to offend but after reading some of your articles and some deep thinking it is. in my opinion (not to say my opinion is right or wrong) philosohphy is just big word for question and answering. its not a typical learning field, for example math and science your taught something you wouldnt know any other way. or atleast with out spending countless hours finding out yourself. so you cant say math is for the stupid. its for the inexperienced or unapplied mind. where as philosohpyQNA is common sense or ones opinion of whats right or wrong. and your born with common sense(please dont lecture me on how your not born with common sense you get the jist of what im saying) by the age of 18 your common sense you have then is pretty much all your gonna have for the rest of your life) so well say philosophy is for the stupid, unless your under 18 then its for the inexperieneced. and a person who ask questions in the field of philosophy and doesnt know the answer is stupid (I use the term loosely) all philosophy is, is opinion and a person who doesnt have there own opinion is stupid. (so ill say philosophy is QNA/opinion not to blanket that if you ask a philosophical your stupid. so if a person asks a another person about an opinion and they dont know the answer themselves there mind still needs to grow there stupid alright I kinda over thought this but i dont want my question to get an easy answer. that dodges the question so with all that in mind philosophy is for the stupid, agree or disagree?

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November 21, 2005

Comments

OK, so I enjoyed your spirited attack! I agree with you that philosophy isn't like mathematics or science. But where I think we fundamentally disagree is about your claim that philosophy is just a matter of common sense. In general, that's not so: many of the greatest philosophical positions utterly fly in the face of common sense. Many arguments in philosophy lead to conclusions that seem quite outrageous from a common sense point of view. In fact, one gripe that some philosophers have with much of philosophy is precisely that it flouts common sense and that, in so far as it does, it's gone off the rails. It may be true that sometimes philosophers just tell you what your grandmother already knew. But (a) often that's not the case and (b) when it is the case, it's usually because the philosopher believes he or she's managed to wrestle down some outrageous beast that threatened your grandmother's claim to knowledge (sometimes, protection of the commonsense requires a detour through some pretty wild country).