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>>My first course in philosophy was nothing less than a summary of the important systems of thought put forward in Western Europe during the last twenty-six hundred years. Perhaps that is a slight exaggeration--we did gloss over a few centuries in the Middle Ages. For the rest we touched upon all the historic names from Thales to Nietzsche. After about nine weeks of this bewildering transit a friend approached me with a sour look on his face. "You know," he said, "I can't make head or tail out of this business. I agree with each philosopher as we study him. But when we get to the next one, I agree with him too. Yet he generally says the other one was wrong. They can't all be right. Can they now?" I was too much puzzled with the same difficulty to help him.
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Yeah, maybe it'll take you more than nine weeks of an introductory course to form your own opinion on the nature of this universe, morality and knowledge itself.
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>>3022059
The answer is simple - OP is a fag
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>>3022059
Not everyone cares about philosophy. They may unwittingly be influenced by a philosophers theories, but it ends there.
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Philosophy is all bullshit. Take the bullshit that's useful to yourself personally (stuff like stoicism, Kierkegaard).
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>>3022059
It just means that you're young and are weak to sophistry. You'll toughen up after learning more. Offset the curve by attempting to think rationally about things instead of nodding along as a train of thought is spoonfed to you. Sartre is written with prose that feels deep and wildly meaningful, but a younger me managed to grow annoyed with the man's libertarian free will nonsense. Just poke and prod at things, and keep reading.
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Ideas don't matter.
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