#studying philosophy

[toprewolf1]

June 2025

🖤Halfway through my uni writing course🖤 artwork, Thin Ice by Miles Cleveland Goodwin and L’advertissement by Serafino Machiati.

[nonameformesorry]

Studying Kant be like:

Kant: "I present you with an idea™"

Me: "This is an awesome idea™!!! I would love to apply it!!!"

Kant: *throws the idea into a food processor, defenestrates the idea and the food processor, drives his car over all of it, launches it into the sun, retrieves it, puts pineapple on it*

Kant: "You're not applying it! I thought you liked the idea?"

Me (looking at the five scattered atoms of the original idea that are still left in his hands as he shows me a mess mutated beyond recognition):"... Yeah... I did..."

[all-the-stars-hills-milky-way]

🍂 29-9-2024

Woke up at 9

Took a shower

Revised philosophy twice

Studied two more pages

Checked with the quizzes and the other class exam if I'm prepared for tomorrow's test

Finished my maths homework

Did a project for history of art

Took care of my health (I have a strong throat ache)

Spent time with my mother after being without her this weekend

Watched tv

Read like five chapters of Winter

[scienceknowledge]

Quick Illustration of the Philosophy of:

Epistemology: 20+ pages of reading of discussion on if we can ever know we are dreaming or not (when we are in a state we would call "awake"), and concluding that we can't really ever know if we are ever dreaming or not. (But suggesting that we should still act like we do know.)

Ethics: Showing that it's useless to debate morals because all moral statements (e.g. "It's wrong to steal") can't ever be true or false. Science: a system of categorization of natural phenomena that uses models fueled by limited variables, to create useful stories that are not certainly true. 

Ancient Philosophy: The roots are mixed and separated by the two main forces Love and Strife to produce the world we sense and are a part of and the mixture and separation take the place of coming-to-be and passing-away (as well as earth, air, fire, and water). Love and Strife mix an unmix in cycles, where the daimones are absorbed into the complete mixture of the roots at the height of Love’s power. 

Mind: We're all just brains in vats.

[chimchimcheerios]

Has anyone on here studied Philosophy at university/gotten a degree in Philosophy? Also I don't want to offend anybody, I'm just looking for honest opinions...

I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I'm currently studying to become a teacher for English and Psychology/Philosophy BUT I'm not that huge of a fan yet. I promised myself I'd know whether or not to pursue my studies in this direction by New Year. Guess what didn't happen, what a shocker.

I wanted to change my second subject because there's literally no teachers needed for Philosophy/psychology and I thought I wouldn't enjoy Philosophy but here comes the problem: Upon studying for Philosophy exams it hit me, shit, that stuff is actually quite fascinating. Shit, I'm not supposed to enjoy this! So I read a book like holy shit this is actually so interesting what the hell?

My parents tell me to switch to just a major in Philosophy in general if I actually enjoy it a lot BUT I'm trying to be realistic here. Isn't Philosophy pretty much useless? I'm not going to get a job just because I find something interesting so I'd like to hear the opinion of some actual philosophy students or people with a degree in it. Would you say it is/was worth it? Do you think you can/did you get a job? What kind? And all that jazz.

If anyone sees this and answers, thanks in advance.

[quwerrs]

studying philosophy

[falsefangs]

ugh in contrast to creative writing academic writing is so tedious the longer a text needs to be to explain an idea because in my head an idea always feels like one (1) idea but when it’s a complicated one it takes x more pages to explain than a simple one so when i’ve been spending a whole day writing but know at the end that i still have to write so much more the coming days/weeks to successfully communicate this one idea that’s already painfully clear in my head then that’s a really exhausting feeling that makes me feel like not having gotten anywhere at the end of the day even after having spent 11+ hours working

[alunah-lalunah]

What is the correct stance for studying philosophy?

You study philosophy the way a physicist studies a system that includes themselves. Not to improve it. Not to redeem it. But to see how it actually works, even if the result is disappointing, flattening, or emotionally unrewarding. You allow understanding to undermine your motives, not justify them. You let concepts erode your self-image. You do not ask, “Will this make me free?” You ask, “Is this true, even if it costs me?”

Freedom then appears only as a side effect and never as a possession. It appears as decreased inner friction, reduced narrative urgency, less need to defend, correct, or justify yourself. Not bliss. Not detachment as a virtue. Just fewer compulsions.

This is why Spinoza didn’t seem to care about much. It wasn’t asceticism. It was that nothing needed him anymore not God, not society, not his own ego.

Freedom is not achieved by adding insight. It arrives when insight makes your attachments indefensible.