Philosophy Condensed

[darkon]

As someone who has read a fair amount of Philosophy, it never ceases to amaze me how these fellows can ramble, and ramble, and ramble when they could get their point across just as well in about 3 pages.

Well, these guys have taken the liberty of getting these philosopher's words across without the fluff.

http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/

[margot]

What the hell is the fun in reading those?

[darkon]

What the hell is the fun in reading those?

Have you READ any Philosophy? There is no fun in reading those, most of them ramble for hours and hours about how it has been proven throughout history that such and such is the case.

I love Philosophy, but as anyone can tell you. Why spend 3 hours reading something when in 10 minutes you can understand it just as well?

[uniform_motion]

Philosophical writings are more like essays, so rambling is to be expected.

[margot]

Have you READ any Philosophy? There is no fun in reading those, most of them ramble for hours and hours about how it has been proven throughout history that such and such is the case.

I love Philosophy, but as anyone can tell you. Why spend 3 hours reading something when in 10 minutes you can understand it just as well?

Of course I've read philosophy and I do enjoy reading it, but I guess I am more artsy than you.

Edited December 25, 2005 by Lindsay

[darkon]

Philosophical writings are more like essays, so rambling is to be expected.

Well, yeah, they're like research papers. You kill countless trees in order to prove, without a shadow of a doubt, you are right. And then you promptly have someone tear your paper apart and tell you how wrong you are.

[Alundra]

Claiming that reading the elongated versions of philosophy is more artistic is just idiotic. I have read plenty of philosophy, and it is more or less a compilation of a few key thoughts with tons of filler in between.

There is a reason that most colleges don't make you read entire scripts of philosophy: You'll get lost of the entire point of the reading if you try to read all the writers thoughts. Instead, they give you snippets of the most important parts of their writings.

I'm an art student, and literally no major contains any sort of an extensive philosphy class that falls under an art major.

[Venom112]

WTF!? No Diogenes the Cynic? I don't care if technically wasn't much of a philosopher, or that his documents didn't really survive, I wants me my Diogenes!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.iep.utm.edu/

All right, improvement city. Well, they aren't actually cities, but if they were, they would be blistering metropolises!

[Mithrandir]

*sigh*

I'm not going to insult the people who are too lazy to actually read real philosophy.

But I would like to say the following:

Yes, you can get the gist of any philosophy in a three page summary, but you can't call that a comprehensive understanding.

(and yes I fucking know what I'm talking about, I'm majoring in philosophy and have read a ton of actual philisophical texts)

[darkon]

Yes, reading it more would give you a better "understanding" of the philosophy. But for most of us, with so many interests in so many topics we literally do not have the time to give ourselves a deeper understanding. So we get the basic understanding and go to what we need to learn next.

[Ceraziefish]

I have never read philoshopy.

I probably never will.

*Shrug* No one's really convinced me I'm missing much.