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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In this economic climate, the days of doing 'hobby' majors r over![/quote]

Exactly.  That's why Liberal Arts is the way to go.  Technology is changing too fast to know what skills will be needed in 10 years.  LeRning how to think will benefit you forever.[/quote]

Wrong.  I think the days of the SLACs are over too.  And I went to a SLAC, majored in history and went to Yale law school.  But nowadays I probably couldn't get back in my SLAC and Yale Law School.  It's just too damn competitive.  It's more important to get current with technology and move forward with it. Liberal arts doesn't teach you how to think (or spell, obviously).  It's a creature of the past when people could easily get in and parents and loan programs made it affordable to spend fouryears study geology, history, philosophy or whatever.  That's no longer the case.  A relative of mine graduated from a SLAC with a puff major and over $200K in loans.  He's bussing tables at an I-Hop.  I am not making this up.  At 26 he is going to have to file for bankruptcy (and yes I know the fed loans aren't discharged by bankruptcy).[/quote]

Liberal arts don't teach you how to think?  Philosophy doesn't teach you how to think?  Conducting history research and writing it up doesn't teach you how to think?  And by the way, geology is a science.

I'm sorry your relative is a slacker but thats hardly a scientific sample.  Then again, you don't seem to understand what science is.[/quote]

Not the PP, but no, philosophy doesn't "teach you how to think". There is no such thing. Philosophy teaches you about certain kinds of issues or problems (what it means to know, how we know what exists etc), and what various thoughtful people thought about these (I know because I was a philosophy major). But it's not something you can use in the workplace. There exists a 'general thinking skill' but that' is intelligence and it can not be taught - either you have it or you don't. Whatever can be taught does not transfer to other areas.[/quote]

You obviously lack the ability to.think and it was definitely not learned in your case. You can't write, nor can you construct a clear and logical argument.  How you earned a degree in philosophy, the discipline of logic and reason, is beyond me.  [/quote]

right. i have an IQ of 170 and was an absolute superstar philosophy student, like, once in a lifetime student (according to at least 5-6 different people). my undergrad department (top 20 school) begged me to attend their highly competitive phd program (i did end up with a phd albeit in a different field). what you are espousing is a naive view, from which philosophical discussion on the purpose of philosophy could, perhaps, begin. that your consider the claptrap about constructing arguments etc. well written and interesting shows at the very least a serious lack of sophistication.[/quote]

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