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I'm majoring in philosophy but I'm seriously thinking about dropping out because the more I learn about it the more I want to get away from it. I just can't stand it. Maybe I'm just too dumb for it but I don't want to read anything else about it. I'm burned out. I would rather read good fiction or spend time in nature, or draw stuff like used to when I was a child.
Having to go through text after text dissecting argument after argument about subjects I just don't care is dreadful and they don't grow inside me. The only ones that have not been 100% superficial experiences are Plato and Aristotle and the pre-socratics, but I still not really care about anything they said.
The only thing I have enjoyed is learning latin. Beautiful language.

>> No.11474469 [DELETED] 

>>11474468
the bible

>> No.11474474

Read some Kaczynski.

>> No.11474487

>>11474474
Why? I don't want to bomb innocent people.

>> No.11474496

>>11474468
Maybe you haven't studied something you liked yet. Most eventually find something that resonates with them, usually Nietzsche or Schopenhauer or something else that speaks directly about "mundane" (as in worldly rather than trivial) matters.

Unless you study analytical philosophy in which case p > q where p is "you're studying analytical philosophy" and q is "you're fucked".

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>>11474487
haha you really are a simp, aren't you?

>> No.11474565

>>11474468
stay away from your studies as soon as it is reasonable for yor to do and engage yourself in some other meaningful things. I arrive at that place you describe every now and than during the semester, when I am brooding over Lord Byron for example and realise that I don't care about him or what he says about the Council of Cintra in Childe Harold at all.

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>>11474468
got you bro

>> No.11474705

>>11474496
>Most eventually find something that resonates with them, usually Nietzsche or Schopenhauer or something else that speaks directly about "mundane" (as in worldly rather than trivial) matters.
Seems like something better done in literature

>> No.11474738

War and War
The Book of Disquiet
The Loser (Thomas Bernhard)

>> No.11474749

>>11474705
It kind of is. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is close enough to literature.

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>>11474487
>innocent

>> No.11474819

>>11474468
>goes to school for philosophy
>subjects I just don't care about
so why did you decide to major in philosophy in the first place, anon?

>> No.11474835

>>11474819
autistic analytical philosophy doesn't really give the same wonder when you started getting into Plato does it though?

>> No.11474840

>>11474819
I wanted to understand, now I don't care about understanding anything, and I have even started to doubt if I am even capable of understanding such complex thoughts, which at the same time don't affect me at all. I don't think philosophy and my body are made for each other. I see my classmates being really interested and passionate about different subjects while I just care less and less.

>> No.11474858

>>11474835
Is that not to be expected in a school environment?

>>11474840
then cut your losses and drop out

>> No.11474898

>>11474858
>then cut your losses and drop out
I can't. I need to finish undergrad at least.

>> No.11475827

>>11474468
Don't drop out anon

>> No.11475857

>>11474468
Do u live in Japan senpai?

>> No.11475867

>>11474840
What specifically are you studying? I assume it's mostly analytic if you're at a Western institution.

>> No.11475901

>>11474468
make Beneath the Wheel the next book you read. it gave me comfort when, like you, I was in school and felt weighed down by i just didn't care about.
Also if you enjoy latin, then study that more!

>> No.11476673

>>11475867
Its a little bit of everything

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>>11474487

>> No.11476681

>>11474778
Stop being an edgelord.

>> No.11476688

>>11474511
Ted fans are in the same league as Elon musk fans, you are a brainlet.

>> No.11477030

>>11476688
Shut up normie