>>350369391Yes, college has become a kind of "finishing school" now, like young women used to go to back in the day to learn manners and conversation.
>>350369441You have no clue how little I care about what you think, though you've posted the same thing 3 times so clearly this is an issue of some deep bitterness for you. Please tell us more.
>>350369555Most of my work is in the history and philosophy of science. Logic is very uninteresting.
>>350369592>Do you think the decline of religion has created a culture of general alienation in the Western world?I've never been religious, even as a small child. But yes, it's a major problem and the fact is, almost all atheists back in the day considered it to be a private doctrine not to be taught to the masses.
>and if so, what do you think could replace/revive it?We're seeing the replacement right now: the cult of woke, and also consumerist materialist and social media narcissism.
>Also who is your favorite philosopher?I have a lot. Bayle, as noted. Aristotle. Hume.
>>350369629How do you major and minor in the same subject?
>y biggest take away from college was that philosophy students and professors are arrogant and maladjusted weirdos with a vindictive streak that rivals a teenage girl.It's true. Some of the worst humans I have ever met were philosophy professors.
>>350369690Thanks, I'll check it out.
>>350369786Democracies have been the most successful and stable societies in human history, by far. All the Greek writers, orators, poets, philosophers, historians, etc., we know of and read today lived in Athens. Sparta didn't produce a single one in 900 years.
