Drasticomico

A few thoughts on my major and how it is seen

I am constantly asked why i choose to study Philosophy. It seems that a lot of people have this misconception that philosophy is useless, and I will never find a good job. Not only i think that that's a very sad mindset to take, as these people shouldn't try to intervene in my life, and they should think more about their own majors, (not having me to steal their jobs is actually good for them, haha) but I also truly believe that this partially comes from an endemic ignorance about what Philosophy actually is.

Philosophy is not a science. It's a field of knowledge to be studied or an attitude. A lot of philosophers are scientists, but not all of them are. Science works by assuming a ground on the work of the past. One does not research about genetics without previous knowledge about the peas. But philosophy is there to question the ground we stand on. It looks deeply into what constructs our lives. A philosopher would not apply the scientific method on those peas, instead they would ask what made life always follow a pattern from those that created them. Philosophy begs the question, science creates the hypotesis.

Not only that, but philosophy creates irrefutable theories. You can't disproove, with empirical evidence, that Schopenhauers quote "Men does what he wills but he cannot will what he wills", but that doesn't mean you cant disagree with it. Instead, philosophers search for their peers train of thought to refute the way they got to that conclusion. Science progresses, Philosophy always comes back to their roots. It makes other areas of human life improve, but philosophical knowledge on itself doesnt have anything to improve.

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Thanks for deleting the scent marking in the tag (graffiti) article. I'd thought the same thing as what you wrote in the edit description but I wasn't sure if I was just being defensive, so I'm glad you agreed and were more bold than I was :) -- NotCharizard ^🗨 14:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)