Comments on: The Decline of Philosophy

By: Mivry

Mivry — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:37:19 +0000

You criticize minds such as Leibniz and Kierkegaard, even Nietzsche, so very boldly. How certain are you that your mind is just as wise as theirs? Maybe you are just trying to show some conspicuous opinion in an attempt to elevate yourself, beyond the ignorant masses that you so tirelessly condemn, to desperately make the difference between them and you so obvious. Although I agree completly with you in the lack of philosophy knowledge of the population, it’s rather reckless to judge true (?) philophers.

P.S.: Forgive my lack of grammatical knowledge, just as my minor, nevertheless irritating, english errors, I”m just a 21 year old brazilian engineering studant.

By: Liew

Liew — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:44:59 +0000

Is that what (many) Americans think what philosophy is?

…I’m so getting out of here on the very next plane.

By: Anykey2407

Anykey2407 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:31:17 +0000

I wrote something similar about 3 years ago when I started studying philosophy. After I got sick of hearing the same thing from everybody all the time: “How can you study philosophy?! It’s a state of mind!” And then started telling me stories about how they got high and heard the “Soul of the world” or some other idea of the Castaneda/Coelho so called “metaphysical system”.

By: Friar_Zero

Friar_Zero — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:56:35 +0000

Outside of the academy, however, philosophy is almost worse than a Mother Goose rhyme.
*cough*StefanMolyneux*cough*

By: Cha

Cha — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:35:15 +0000

“Philosophy is something you perform while sitting in an armchair while intoxicated or high, without a care for any sort of coherence or intelligibility, and can be boiled down to pulling ideas straight from one’s anus shortly after removing one’s head from there.”

Deja vu!