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I was wondering guys,

Why are intro to philosophy courses usually dense? Why are students forced to read Plato or modern philosophers without much guidance from professors?

Most 18-20-year-olds (with the exception of the well-read/Ivy Leagues) are going to either fall asleep or be utterly confused by raw philosophical texts, yet these are the first things they are given in introductory courses. Thus, their very first introduction to philosophy is that of slog and trepidation.

Of course, these texts are valuable and worth reading, but as an introduction, might be too esoteric and arcane for your average young boi and grill.

Philosophy should be made fun in these intro courses. Make the students interested first, through modern day events and through laymen summaries of classic concepts, then hit them with the hard material in later courses. Of course, there should also be some sort of disclaimer about the difficulty of philosophical texts in these intro courses, and that these kids should really polish their reading skills if they want to pursue philosophy further.

I can't tell you how many people I've met that hate philosophy because they couldn't get through the dense ancient texts that their professors gave them, even though those texts are actually really interesting--it's not the content that has them disinterested, it's the difficulty of esoteric readings.

There needs to be a change in how philosophy is taught in intro courses.

I HAVE HUNDREDS OF READING LISTS AND THOUSANDS OF BOOKS WHICH I'VE BEEN COLLECTING FOR MANY YEARS, BUT I HAVEN'T READ A SINGLE BOOK EVER IN MY LIFE.

>>10188143
If you count all of the classes I've taken in Chinese and French, and all of the money my parents spent on tutors, you'll have a lot of wasted money and an individual with the ability to speak only English with arbitrary phrases on the side he can say at the dinner table like "fun pi!" (fart in Mandarin) to simultaneously amuse and shame his extended family and friends.

>>10156477
I had a professor (60yo) yell at me at the end of class for speaking with friends during her lecture. No warning whatsoever. Just came up the auditorium aisle and started screaming at the top of her lungs, turning red as a beet. For some reason she focused on me, even though we had all been talking. I just nodded at her in agreement, didn't say a word, which seemed to anger her further.

In retrospect, I should not have been talking during her lecture. But she handled it like a 12-year-old. Talk about emotional fucking baggage. I eventually dropped that class.

how many books does it take to become an enlightened faggot and not a pseud

>>10100041
I've tried for years to get people to like me.

As I'm mostly an oddball at heart, it hasn't worked much. I just subscribe to different philosophies than a great deal of people. It's probably congenital. Both of my parents are fucking weird.

BUT there's one thing that I've found to be valuable. I just do my thing and try not to care about socializing. I'll socialize with people the way I see fit, i.e. which ironically takes the pressure off of me to *act* any kind of way. Ironically, not giving a shit in this way seems to make people like me more.

In a nutshell b urself. It's dumb that this cliche is actually the truth. It's easy to hear and scoff at, and I think the path to achieving it is different for everyone.

My path: I eventually just got sick and tired of appeasing people in social situations. I pursue my hobbies and my work and talk to the people I think matter, drop the ones I don't. I don't necessarily go into conversations apathetically, but I do so with a somewhat don't give a fuck attitude. I don't talk for the sake of talking and I say what I think boldly.

God I sound like such a pseudo-intellectual. Honestly cringe stuff here. Carry on.