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Interesting that intelligent students choose philosophy. Is that choice justified, though, or just a relic of the old glory of philosophy?
by ristretto 15y ago
Interesting that intelligent students choose philosophy. Is that choice justified, though, or just a relic of the old glory of philosophy?
- discreteevent 15y agoProbably because a function of intelligence is to get to the root of things fairly quickly so intelligent students invariably come around to: "what about knowledge itself?" "what about thinking?" etc. They are a bit more meta. Problem is if you ever go down that route you find its hard tI distinguish meta from bullshit because its so abstracted from reality where you can verify things by trying them out or observing. Maybe they attend philosophy for help with this and later when they grow up realize that actually, no, they really attended because it was a good place to just shoot the shit. And what a lot of fun it was.