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In short, the study of philosophy develops the abilities to read texts closely; to analyze positions critically; to uncover tacit presuppositions; to construct cogent arguments; and to explain and argue in clear persuasive writing. These skills are extremely useful, and applicable to many other disciplines and a variety of careers. Skills such as these are currently in high demand from employers in many fields, and one should not dismiss them lightly.

Employers often look for those who can write well and "think outside the box," and students of philosophy are well-positioned to meet these requirements. Nevertheless, the applicability of philosophical training goes far beyond the corporate world and business. Other areas where philosophical training is relevant include, but are not limited to: law, computer science, medicine, writing, art, publishing, and psychology.

Finally, philosophical training is of great benefit to those who are considering graduate study, whether in philosophy or in other disciplines. The analytical and writing skills that people develop in philosophical training are great assets for a graduate and professional academic career. These are the practical benefits of studying philosophy. But these are not the only benefits.

For one thing, philosophy helps to develop tolerance: a tolerance for ambiguity, ambivalence, nuance, and subtlety.

One comes to accept that the world does not exist entirely in black-and-white, that there are shades of color and of grey, that situations are often far more complex than they first appear to be. This does not condemn us to relativism or skepticism; far from it. Rather, we are humbled by our own ignorance and limited vision, and approach the world and others with greater tolerance and mercy.

It seeks to articulate and continue fundamental questions about what it means to be human and interact in the world. We do not philosophize solely to justify some end extrinsic to philosophy. Moreover, even though philosophy is concerned with how one views the world, it is not, as I stated in the Introduction, a purely subjective orientation or personal world-view, for which a justification is unnecessary. Indeed, philosophical wonder should shake one out of a purely subjective or personal world-view, disorient, and challenge a person to see if their views and beliefs are justified.

Philosophy asks us to engage in a study meant for human beings. We philosophize because we are not satisfied with simplistic answers, nor do we wish to be drones of the hive, merely reproducing local economic values, beliefs, and practices.

We philosophize because something leads us to see the world with new eyes — they open on to the desert of the real, but only if to see it more clearly, that the desert really is not a desert: only our clouded vision made it so.

Perhaps Russell sums up best why one studies philosophy: Thus, to sum up our discussion of the value of philosophy; Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and become capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Conclusion We have come far through the exploration of philosophy in this paper. My hope is that I have provided the general reader with a sense of the nature of philosophy, along with its origins, purpose, and value.

In this paper, I first examined four characteristics of philosophy: its origin in wonder; its engagement with its past; its self-critique; and its internal tensions. After doing this, I offered a provisional definition of philosophy: Philosophy is the perennial search for truth.

Then, I outlined the various areas into which we can divide philosophy. After that, I discussed how one might approach the study of philosophy. For my intended audiences: I hope that, for the general reader who has no knowledge of philosophy, I have shown what philosophy is like, how a person practices it, as well as its value and worth.

For the student who may have some cursory knowledge of the discipline, I have endeavored to show that philosophy is not merely a justification for an end outside of itself, nor is it a purely subjective orientation or personal world-view, for which a justification is unnecessary I will close with an invitation to the reader, to join in the philosophical conversation.

Wake up from sleep; step out of the Cave; take the red pill65 and begin to see the world with fresh eyes, with cleared vision. Philosophy will change your life, opening one to a deeper appreciation and experience of the everyday world in which you live.

And, it is not a serious and dour discipline. Philosophy can be a great deal of fun—entering into the philosophical conversation is like joining a club that has been having a rollicking good time for the last two-and-a-half millennia.

So, what will it be: the blue pill, or the red pill? Whichever pill you chose, your life will never be the same afterwards. For Further Reading Below are listed general secondary resources that may be of interest and help in learning more about the history and practice of philosophy in the Western tradition. This list is by no means complete or exhaustive. There is a multiplicity of perspectives represented in these materials, so I advise the reader to read broadly and critically as they begin.

Please contact me, if you would like a more focused bibliography on a particular topic or figure. A History of Philosophy. New York: Image. Borchert, D. Knowledge, Wisdom, and the Philosopher. Philosophy 81 1 , Thinking: From Solitude to Dialogue and Contemplation. New York: Fordham University Press. What Does it Mean to Philosophize? San Francisco: Ignatius Press. Craig, E. New York: Routledge. A History of Western Philosophy.

Has Passion a Place in Philosophy? In Philosophy in America at the Turn of the Century. Audi, Ed. Bowling Green: Philosophy Documentation Center. Why Study the History of Philosophy? Harvard Review of Philosophy 7, Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline.

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Zalta, Ed. Nadler, Ed. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. Early German Philosophy: Kant and his Predecessors. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Haakonssen, Ed. Garber, M. Ayers, R. Gabbey, Eds. Central Themes in Early Modern Philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Cosmopolis: the Hidden Agenda of Modernity. New York: Free Press. Baldwin, Ed. Chicago: Open Court Publishers. Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy.

Philosophical Gourmet Report, The Metaphysical Club. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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On the Study Methods of Our Time. Wachowski, L. The Matrix. Movie Script. Friedrich Nietzsche. Williams, B. Wittgenstein, L. Tractatus Logico-philosophicus. New York: Humanities Press. End Notes 1 I have drawn the basic outline of this overview from an overview written by Richard Heck for the Harvard University Department of Philosophy Web site, in its version which is no longer live.

While the words are my own, for the most part, I have credited Heck where they are not. I would also like to thank and acknowledge Sean Ferrier for helpful comments and feedback on an earlier version of this paper.

Ferrier, personal communication, 27 February There seem to be several points of similarity between his presentation and mine — any such similarities, unless I have directly referred to his book, are purely coincidental. No one has yet seriously challenged the idea, which comes to us directly from the ancients themselves, that with the so- called Milesian school in the 7th century B.

E a new way of considering the universe appeared, namely, philosophy. Rather than citing Homer or Hesiod, testimony indicates that Thales relied on a method of empirical observation to draw his conclusions — see, for example, the story on page 8 of this paper. And he was not alone in using empirical observation in antiquity; e. Furthermore, devices like the Antikythera mechanism Freeth et al.

Thus, what the reader should take away from this discussion: there is a long-standing connection between philosophy and science. In fact, one might say that science is, in a way, derived from philosophy, though we cannot collapse them into each other. Thanks to Sean Ferrier for reminding me of this. Also, while these early natural scientists challenged religious traditions and accounts, they were not necessarily anti-religious or atheists, though there seem to have been a few exceptions to this.

Keep in mind, though, we are trying to piece together the thought of these early philosophers from fragments and testimonia written centuries after the fact; therefore, our understanding of their thought must be provisional, at best. I would like to thank Sean Ferrier for bringing this to my attention. Reflecting upon this, I am inclined to agree with it. Political philosophy and questioning may indeed require that one think differently from others.

I would say that this illustrates one of the inherent tensions in philosophy, that between philosophical reflection for its own sake and political engagement, about which I will have more to say in Section II. D, Tension 2. The Mob. One proponent of this view is Heidegger. This view is not, from what I can gather from his writings, what Pieper intends. One does not practice philosophy over and against the Mob, to gain superiority over it, or to stand apart from it in sullen self- exaltation.

Rather, Pieper is inviting all who read his essays to participate, to join in, the philosophical conversation as a natural outgrowth of the wonder they experience in their quotidian existence. Ferrier S. It is hard to escape either claim.

Still, Pieper does actively challenge Heidegger in other places; see, for example, Pieper b and Pieper c. Furthermore, he comes out of a Thomistic background and tradition, which does not view philosophy and the religious as being at odds with each other. Indeed, for many centuries, philosophy and religion were not as rigidly separated as they are in many parts of the contemporary philosophical discourse. The relationship of philosophy and religion is, historically, contentious, and they have often existed in an uneasy truce.

Thomas Aquinas, for example, in claiming that faith and philosophy could not contradict each other, was making a radical claim in his day, one that did not sit well with many of his contemporaries, who viewed Aquinas as a dangerous radical.

See Kerr [], , for a brief overview. Thomas Aquinas, think that there is no gulf: Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself— so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves cf.

Ex ; Ps ; ; Jn ; 1 Jn From the religious side, Pieper debates whether there can be such a thing as a purely secular philosophy, challenging Heidegger and Jaspers; see Pieper c for challenges to Heidegger and Jaspers, and Pieper d for the question of a purely secular philosophy. It is beyond the scope of this paper to address the matter, but, suffice it to say that I will continue to argue that philosophy and religion are not necessarily incompatible, but neither, by the same token, must philosophy be religious.

I realize that I am going against many in the modern philosophical tradition in stating these two provisions, but will stand my ground on this. In discussing this paper, Ferrier S. There are too many Marxist connotations to the word, e. Can we even say that this class, as well as its manners and mores still exists? Can we truly extrapolate the term to other contemporary non-Western nations and cultures? Which is all well and good, but it doesn't add anything rhetorically. I am not certain how we can entirely avoid these.

This invitation is not dependent on historical context or milieu. Arendt , viii, might offer a more contemporary-sounding account of the sort of world-view that I am arguing that wonder challenges. When describing the doublespeak of 20th century political regimes, she writes: …when catastrophe overtook everything and everybody, it was covered up not by realities but by the highly efficient talk and double-talk of nearly all official representatives who, without interruption and in many ingenious variations, explained away unpleasant facts and justified concerns.

Perhaps a better word exists that describes the perspective that wonder asks us to leave behind. This is especially true in these times of conformity, and renewed calls for doctrinal and ideological purity on the part of political parties, religious institutions, and the like. And there is a part of the philosophical tradition that does seek to break with tradition and begin anew, as Kaufman , ff points out. But, make no mistake: philosophy, though it may not necessarily be destructive, is subversive, in a way that, say, psychoanalysis, is not.

Freud might question the hypocrisy and illusions found in sexual mores, sexual practice, and religion, e. Yet, in the end, the aim of psychoanalysis is to reduce neurotic suffering to common suffering. The critique only points out societal illusions and hypocrisy; it does not offer any program or hope for change.

All it does is urge people to resign themselves to the status quo, to their suffering, and to their place. Psychoanalysis cannot escape its bourgeois matrix, even as it critiques it. Questioning may lead to the replacement of old views with new views. Tension generates energy, energy that one can use creatively. Thus, we must resist the temptation to remove or resolve these tensions, even in the face of the mechanistic model of the universe and the human person so beloved of modern thought. Please see Hankinson for a more detailed examination of Stoic epistemology and how this influences the account of the Sage in Stoic thought.

It is also an integral part of the bourgeois mentality, which I have explained above in end note The situation is such that no one can be question or challenge their paradigm. Firstly, there was his involvement with the pro-Spartan oligarchy, the Thirty Tyrants, who took control of Athens after its defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War and eliminated some of their opponents.

Socrates was not responsible for ordering anyone put to do death, but his association with the Thirty did not win him any friends after the overthrow of the oligarchs and the restoration of democracy.

Secondly, there was his association with Alcibiades, the brilliant but troubled Athenian general. Alcibiades was a popular figure, but self-control was not one of his strong points. Among other things, he was accused of parodying the sacred and secret Eleusian mysteries at a party, as well as desecrating the sacred Herms before leaving on the disastrous Sicilian campaign. Recalled to Athens, Alcibiades defected to Sparta, whom he subsequently betrayed before joining the hated Persians.

Thirdly, there were questions of how the Socratic method was different from that of the Sophists. The Sophists were teachers of rhetoric who managed to grow wealthy from plying their trade by teaching the sons of citizens the art of public speaking the path to success in classical Athens.

However, the Sophists, being foreigners i. Nevertheless, through their pupils and wealth, they exerted a great deal of indirect influence on the political process.

Moreover, their questioning of traditional morality and religion were threats to the stability of the state. Finally, we need to understand that the Greek conception of the citizen was not ours: a Greek citizen was first a citizen of his polis city-state and a participant in its political life, and only secondarily an individual, and even then not in the modern, atomic understanding of the individual.

The notion of atomic individuals creating a social contract to form a government would have been alien to the Greek mindset. For this reason, they are not as innocent as they might initially seem, because they called into question the legitimacy of the government of the polis, upon whom the citizens depended for survival. For these reasons, Socrates was put to death for corrupting the youth of Athens and teaching impiety and atheism. The case of Heidegger is a difficult one, and the tradition is still assessing it to this day.