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Philosophy: Who Needs It

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  1. We all need it and use it whether we realize it or not.  Everyone has a philosophy, whether it's their own or someone else's.


  2. The great philosopher David Hume after enduring the mental angst of realizing causality was only a guess - concluded that philosophers would probably contribute more to society as shepherds.

  3. It is not a need it is a consequence of consciousness.

    Being aware of awareness begs many questions.

  4. We all do, esp from the time we started our secondary education. Part of philosophy is about morals, virtues and the art of living. See what has happened to the lives of countless teenagers and youths without proper directions. If only the education system could include it in their curriculum, society would be more orderly and happier today. :-((

  5. Philosophy is the art of attempting to confuse the maximum number of people at a time in order to demonstrate your advanced intellect.

    It is little more than structured obfuscation.

  6. It was a good book.  Liked most of it, disagreed with some of it.

    http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Who-Nee...

  7. If you do what you did, you will get what you got

    Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars

  8. It has it place.  For me, it gives me a chance to see things from other perspectives.  Living a life where you don't consider other positions leave a person in the dark on a lot of aspects of life.

  9. not I; I live it.

  10. I guess I was the only one to gather from your Capitalized words that you mean something like this:

    "Philosophy studies the fundamental nature of existence, of man, and of man’s relationship to existence. As against the special sciences, which deal only with particular aspects, philosophy deals with those aspects of the universe which pertain to everything that exists. In the realm of cognition, the special sciences are the trees, but philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible."

    “Philosophy: Who Needs It,” from

    Philosophy: Who Needs It; Ayn Rand

    or perhaps this:

    "As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation—or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind’s wings should have grown." ibid

    Am I correct?


  11. According to your name, you do.  

  12. Those natural -born thinkers who end up having no choice but to make of it a substitute for living.

  13. are you a thinker?

    if your answer is yes,

    You will need Philosophy. You can not avoid its like disease (as well as medicine) to you.

  14. Blamers don't need it but owners live it.

  15. Philosophy is nutritionl sustenance for the soul, for the mind, for the spirit, for those individuals who are inspired or have questions that require answeres, a calling from within to attain a higher, deeper truth.

  16. EVERYBODY & NOBODY.

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