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I Like Philosophy

After the age of 16, I was drawn to philosophy. I think for me the questions of life have always felt so central to my life. So that how I answered them impacted how i felt.

Sometimes it seems you justify your own depression with pseudo philosophy. However, even as i've made adjustments in my life to maintain a healthier mind, i still find myself bothered by philosophical issues.

The philosophical issues that concern me are to do with how to live a meaningful life that is consistent with it being rational. I'm not satisified with modern thinking that claims we have to create our own meaning because I think that tends to just lead one to mindless consumerism. I need a careful and reflective basis for the way I live my life.

I'm sympathetic to thinkers like Roger Scruton, Heidegger, and Nietzsche (his eternal recurrence). However, I also think that Kant is important for helping an individual see the limits of human rationality, and so it can help us clear our expectations of what a rationale for a meaningful life could be.

According to Roger Scruton, when we reflect on these fundamental questions of morality, God, and death, we tend to naturally fall into mystical idea given the limit of human reason to find an answer in this area. I find that quite compelling.

On another note, I don't find modern humanism or scientisim at all intellectually attractive or convincing, although thats perhaps obvious.
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Success · 26-30, F
I loathe philosophy. To me it's a cesspool of specialized jargon leading nowhere. And I think that we shouldn't limit the ability of people to reason answers to the big questions just so God can seem a bit more plausible. I'd say we're opposites.
Gouzi · 26-30, M
@Success You're wrong to summarise more than 2000 years of various different thinkers with different ideas and beliefs as the same.

You're ignoring atheist philosophers like Jean Paul Sartre & Nietzsche.

To theist philosophers like Thomas Aquinas.

To the father of modern philosophy, Plato.

You should understand something more deeply before you dismiss it all. You clearly haven't read and understood enough philosophy.
Success · 26-30, F
@Gouzi All you mention were hacks. And I don't mean to be rude, but I've looked at your posts and despite all your interest you don't seem to have grasped any useful fundamentals. I wish you well nonetheless.
Gouzi · 26-30, M
@Success Haha. I'm not using similar worlds as a means to express thought through philosophical theories. & How would someone as yourself even recognize the fundamentals of a philosophical theory given they haven't read any philosophy.

I doubt you even know what a fundamental in philosophy would be.
Success · 26-30, F
@Gouzi I wish you much happiness while wading through the dung heap. I teach a postgraduate course on the topics you hinted at.
Gouzi · 26-30, M
@Success Those poor students. Listening to a teacher who thinks what they are teaching is valueless.
Success · 26-30, F
@Gouzi Poor you. Unable to properly separate categories and anxiously jumping to false conclusions.

I was nice to you. I'll even let you have the last word.