Do you find philosophy easy or hard?

Question

I am writing my final essay for my political philosophy class and this thing is hard. In all honesty I know I am going to get a D at most. I aced all my other political science classes but this term with political philosophy I have no done well at all. I think math may be easier and I bombed that as well!

Answer 1

Depends.If you are going for the grade it is easy.If you go beyond the elite-funded textbooks for the truth it is quite difficult.

Answer 2

I found political philosophy very easy but that might have been because after trying to major in Math for a year and a half and only having a 2.5 , I ended up with a 3.8 for my first semester in Government & Politics.  



A lot of the credit for my liking political philosophy was my professor.  He started the class by finding out if we had read "The Prince" what we knew of Machiavelli,  and  what we thought of Machiavelli's morals.  I don't think there was a student who did not think of Machiavelli as amoral if no immoral.  He took it all in then assigned us about 50 pages of "The Discourses." to read before the next lecture.  One of the things I really liked about his method of teaching was that he used the Socratic method.  He'd ask us questions about the material rather than just lecture.  For his first question of his next lecture he asked our opinion of what we had read.  One brave soul who voiced what we all felt said it read more like a history of government which we all had read too many time to count.  The professor sort of nodded and then had the brave soul read a sentence from chapter two which was, ""In fact, when there is combined under the same constitution a prince, a nobility, and the power of the people, then these three powers will watch and keep each other reciprocally in check."



With a smile, he then asked if given that sentence had we changed our minds about Machiavelli.  At first no one got it so he asked a few more questions.  All of a sudden this light goes off, and I realized that Machiavelli in writing, The Prince wrote an instruction manual on how to save a democratic republic.  It completely changed my view of Machiavelli.  After that I loved political philosophy.  



Find out which professors make the light bulbs go off.  Those courses are the most challenging, the most enjoyable, and believe it or not the easiest.

Answer 3

Philosophy is stupidly easy... the problem is that most people aren't stupid.

Now, before I tick off all the philosophers here, let me explain.

In other subjects, you get results that you can see, measure or prove.  In philosophy, you get results that you can only THINK ABOUT.  For folks that are used to getting concrete results, this can be very, VERY difficult.  The last answer is a great example of this.

Personally, I love stuff that can't be proven - that you just sit around and consider and argue about - so I find it very easy.  My beloved bride hates stuff that she can't touch, eat or kiss - so she hates philosophy.

Answer 4

Philosophy is supposed to be pretty difficult to understand. You're no longer talking about what, when, where or how. You're talking about why. And that's complicated.