Posted: Jun 06, 2010 7:57 pm
anthroban wrote:....... do you mean that it is "bullshit" in the sense that it is all a priori speculation, or otherwise baseless musings; or do you mean that the study of philosophy is simply not pragmatic?
I must admit, I don't 'get' philosophy, so the above (though I didn't originally post it) might include some of my misgivings. I struggle to think why philosophy might be important, beyond just being historically interesting and possibly a generally good intellectual discipline. In this sense it seems analogous to those stationary, rotating exercise machines in gyms, or a hamster wheel.