/lit/ - Literature

>philosophy
Have fun flipping burgers

>>17443883
>Going to school for money
Ok pseud

>>17443880
>Just accepted into a university for philosophy.
Oh dude you fell for the meme.

>>17443880
Post the essay you shitposted that got you accepted.

>>17443883
I do make a good burger. Try adding mushrooms sauteed in herbs.

>>17443880
Philosophy is gay and retarded and has nothing to do with /lit/.

>>17443880
>It took years but it paid off.
How old are you?

>>17443880
Another shitskin that fell for the meme.

>>17443909
26. Wasn't going to school but took up reading as a hobby. That further ignited interest in philosophy and theology. Went to school again and now here I am

>>17443883
Philosphy students can do pretty much anything they want when they graduate. Burger flippers are literature students.

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>>17443934
Good on you. I always wanted to go back to school and do the same, but without some serious educational reform, it will be impossible for me.

>>17443938
>Philosphy students can do pretty much anything they want when they graduate
Holy cope

>>17443880
It's much better to double major in something that will actually make you money in the real world.

>>17443880
Wholesome. Congrats, anon. I wish you the best.
t. late bloomer religious studies major headed to grad school.

>>17443880

Studying philosophy is important, but so is having knowledge on the nature of money and its uses and abuses. Don't neglect one for the other.

>>17444043
I did that, and I regret it every day.

Remember to study continental philosophy on your own if your school's philosophy offering is mainly analytic. Also a tip, skim other departments for interesting courses with implications for philosophical anthropology / first philosophy. Don't just look in the obvious places for courses. Go through the course selection thing and look at EVERYTHING, from Anthro to Romance/Germanic languages to English and Comp Lit and Classics and so on. Even look at the weird little side departments you don't recognise. Trust me, you will find good shit.

Also if you're studying philosophy try to start soaking up some history now. You can only understand the really good stuff in context. The more you know about the contextual networks of communication and influence, the better. Learn about ancient Greece and the 17th and 18th centuries especially.

>>17444172
>MONEY MONEY MONEY
I assume you are on the wrong board? anyway kill yourself mindless ape

>>17443938
>Philosphy students can do pretty much anything they want when they graduate
Is that what they put on the pamphlet?

>>17443938
No literature students are NEETs. Fuck if I am going to work for a living

>>17443934
Good job anon! Proud of you.

>>17444507
>>17444047
>>17443966
Thanks bros. We're all gonna make it

>>17444400
Money is the liquidation of power and if you were a true philosopher you'd realize this.
Imagine entering into a voluntary contract of slavery in order to become a philosopher. The ancients would be shaking their head.

>>17443880
You can't put a price on wisdom :^)

>>17445242
Yeah, OP doesn't need to go to college to become a philosopher. You'll never have enough time to study if you're occupied by busy work all the time. Only a complete NPC who had no sense of self-direction or ambition would pay money to be taught what to think. OP will never be a skilled philosopher

>>17445242
Indeed no true philosopher would pay for philosophy class

rip OP
what a fucking idiot

>>17443938
Not anything but it’s a pretty good basis for law. Literature students are indeed tomorrow’s bugger flippers

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>>17446336
You think too black and white. The internet has rotted your brain and has made you second class citizens.

>>17446378
Lol what? Tell me how the total institution of the university is any less stultifying than the internet

Okay, here's an interesting enquiry of mine that is currently a mystery that is related to philosophy.
It has to do with abductive reasoning and the validity of explanatory power.
Basically, why should a hypothesis which answers more questions as to why or how, or one that is considered a fuller and clearer depiction of reality, be superior or more plausible by default?

>>17443938
Had a coworker at NASA with a bachelor's in philosophy, masters in math, and PhD in physics. The really really big brain people can definitely get away with majoring in philosophy and still wind up with those high paying stem jobs.

Congratulations, man- best of luck to you

Don't fall for the STEMcope. You won't succeed in those fields if you don't enjoy it. Congrats OP and have fun, just be careful with debt if you're american.

>>17443880
>Just accepted into a university for philosophy.
This is so painfully clueless it's like reading "Just accepted into a penal battalion on the Eastern Front. Thanks guys for convincing me to join the Red Army."

Please tell us at least you're not a white male.

>>17446526
>Had a coworker at NASA with a bachelor's in philosophy, masters in math, and PhD in physics. The really really big brain people can definitely get away with majoring in philosophy and still wind up with those high paying stem jobs.
Hey genius, he would have got the exact same job without wasting 4 years of his life on the humanities undergrad.

>>17443883
Rangeban the working class

>>17443880
Nice, I'm 27 and I'm going into philosophy too.

>>17446419
No offense but philosophy is not just all about trying to get under the floorboards of knowledge. What you have queried is another version of Occam's Razor. At some point you have to have premises, and 'simplest complete fit' happens to be the algorithm we're running. Run a different one if you feel like it

I can understand women going into these lmaonojob graduate programs, but why men? You won't be able to be a househusband while your rich mommywife funds your expensive hobbies

Did you guys ever write a thinker, an author or someone similar asking them for their advice on specifically where to study but also what?
or have you heard of how it went for someone?
I am obviously relating this to philosophy (and literature).

I am inclined to do this since I am having a hard time finding where to do my graduate degree.

>>17443880
>I'm ready to be poor for ever but it's all good.
No you're not. Quit before you realize your mistake and kill yourself as a lonely miserable virgin

>>17447355
Also poor, I forgot to say poor you future lonely miserable poor virgin.

>>17443880
Gl king

>>17447112
How ignorant are you of stuff like the state department, Reinsurance companies, consulting agencies, ethics boards, think tanks, international government agencies etc. ?
As long as you do internships during your degree you actually have a good chance to get into a decent paying job. Problem is most philosophy students don't do internships (either because they are stupid or they already have a job lined up for them from dad) because of a priest like attitude toward the field of philsophy.
My university did a great job at setting this up but near no one form my +120 year did this:
>Get direct university privileged access to elite internships
>Get a one semester degree in business/economics that counts as an official minor
>enter into alumni-student relationships for job opportunity
>get trained in CV and interview application and other skills to cheat your way ahead of the specialists (1 week crash course)
>extracurricular groups for that deal with politics and finance (that often include scholarships)

My first internship was at fucking Swiss Re and then the EU. I still havent even used my nations foreign embassy internship yet.

Unless you already know you only want to be an x-philosopher expert and want to spend the rest of your life as a hermit in the halls of an overbudgeted school,
you should read philosophers that encourage philosophy as being congruous with real world action; even ancient ones, like Plato and politics, Confucius and the state, etc.
I personally recommend anyone to read Spengler's "Verhältnis zur heutigen Philosophie" which is the 15th paragraph in his introduction for "The Decline of the West". (you can certainly find a pdf on libgen or similar)

All the less privileged but incredibly smart ones I met in the US, England and in Europe studying philosophy managed to do internships at banks, government agencies, etc.

last resort is to go to China's business world, but you need to have language skills for that

>>17447411
I'm sure you'll be able to compete with the Ivankas and Jareds who already have guaranteed jobs there from Daddy

>>17447411
Or you could just do a useful degree and not have to feel job insecure literally ever.

>>17443934
>>17447101
Congratulations. If your intention is ultimately grad school, you really need to hit the ground running. Philosophy courses tend to be easy, so you should be reading far, far more than is assigned of you. Take advantage of the fact that you're not 18, and put that maturity to good use. Also, it's imperative you see your professors after class. That'll gradually build your relationships with them, and increase the chances they write you great recommendation letters down the line.

If you find your courses or the program in general easy, no matter your grades, you're almost certainly not working hard enough. You will need to stand out as a student, and getting high grades won't help with that.

I learned all of this the hard way, by the way. Feel free to ask me questions.

>>17447426
I wish I could have studied Chemistry like a philosopher would have wanted but then I would have to do it at something like St. John's University and I am not doing that shit.
(I know the US and Britain a bit too, have it a bit softer with their college-university split; even if it msotly only exists formally in name these days:) If you are doing one of the "useful" degrees at a "useful" university you are jsut doing a training for a profession. You don't study electrotechnics to graps the fundamental groundworks of the science behind it, but rather so you can one day apply all you learned in whatever situation your employer will put you in.
These universities shouldn't be called that but rather "trade schools" since that's all they are. (Tell this to any one of the engineers, law students, economists and notice how their shock shows it's true. Any one form such a field who minors in philosophy, or wants to study their degree for a future pure academic position agrees with this sentiment btw)
Plato was right with his three different natures to each class in the state. If you are not of the philosophical ore you are not a philosopher, so be happy with being a "lower" caste member. This is a philosophy thread, so don't be offended when none of this seems to apparently apply to your world.
>not have to feel job insecure literally ever.
the idea behind the philosophy approach actually is that you are highly employable in various different fields but pretty much always doing the same thing. (cant speak on experience for this one though, it is what older ones say though)
Some retards like to pretend that "we" are the only ones who will never be replaceable by any form of AI.

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>>17445242
do tell me what I could learn at a university economics degree that will be useful for me that I cant jsut learn these days at home?

>>17447426
Imagine having to work for a living.

>>17447479
noooo you can't just get a STEM degree and be easily employed in your chosen profession by simply applying for jobs, no networking needed or anything

Well done. Sergey Nazarov majored in philosophy too.

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>>17447101
university is inherently judeo chrisitan, so you will never go beyond judaism if you go

>>17447578
I told you not to seethe, yet you seethe.

>>17447632
yeah I'm sure STEM degree holders are seething with their easy to find, highly paid lifetime employment

>>17443880
A waste of time and money. Study engineering or a hard science and take a few philosophy electives. After you graduate, keep philosophy as a hobby. If you're still desperate to waste money on philosophy coursework, hire a philosophy PhD to tutor you.

>>17447649
fucking kek you are so mad.

>>17447762
you want to be poor and without job, it's your life

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>>17447777
not sure why you're being like this, insistent on making a poor life decision from misguided ideals

>>17447780
dude, i dont know what your actual problem is, but it's hilarious seeing you seethe like this.

>>17447786
Uh, ok

>>17447787
>instant replies
>"no im not seething, I jsut am really involved in helping strangers online on my mongolian mountain climbing board"
top kek

>>17447793
Yes, "top kek", indeed

>>17444373
>study continental philosophy
Don't do this