Who here studies or has studied philosophy?

[fela fan]

I certainly agree the Socratic method is the best one for you. Don't mean to pry, but fwiw my take is you're a smart guy, without much in the way of a formal education. Am I right?

I did a joint degree in Mathematics and Philosophy. It would have been a lot better career-wise if I'd done Computer Science. One grad student in the CS Dept tried to persuade me to switch. But it's not what I wanted to do at the time.

Mate, there are quite severe limitations when debating in the written form. Spoken communication is so so much faster and easier to stop and repair, agree and disagree, converge, diverge, and so on.

Your guess is pretty wrong really. As it happens i have a masters', done when i was 36. In the field of english language. Together with my extensive readings of all kinds of books throughout my life, and philosophical discussions with mates and people of various nationalities down the years living in an eastern country, the result is what i post here.

But writing is just not real time mate. People are too quick to try and judge who other posters are. It's not a good way to go, coz invariably they're wrong, and invariably it adds nothing to the debate. I never get over the amount of times i'm told i'm wrong about something i've directly experienced in life!!

Here's some good philosophy for the forum (or will i be told it's not philosophy?!): start observing and quit judging.

Much will be learned...

 

[Jonti]

Shame. Means you're not as smart as I'd hoped. That keeps happening to me But yeah, fwiw, I'd say that's where things take off, for everyone who has a love of knowledge.

But this

writing is just not real time mate. People are too quick to try and judge who other posters are

seems to me correct, but somewhat unintuitive. It's not real time, so what's the hurry?

Nevermind. Prolly best not to make reply right here. Follow that line of thought ... and it's new thread territory, somewhere in urban75 forums > art, tech and science. This thread is for the trained philosophers to own up. Specifically about career prospects, but hey, little slack doesn't hurt.