philosophical warfare

[Narbus]

[joe_canadian]

[Axtech]

[joe_canadian]

[Axtech]

[Odin]

[Soozy]

[Odin]

[Soozy]

My job's actually nothing to do with philosophy - I work in IT allegedly programming credit card software but actually team leading and trying to convince our customers that our product's not as full of bugs as it is!

I wasn't good enough to study that much more (I might have just got through a masters, but definitely no further) but I needed to leave home so I had to get a job. I still like to read philosophy books though and get some philosophy magazines and stuff.

I'm trying to think what the other people who studied philosophy with me are doing now. At my university you could only do philosophy joint with another subject (maths, physics, modern languages, theology, politics, economics, classics, psychology, physiology) so I think they tended to end up doing things either related to their other subject or totally unrelated.

I don't think i've really thought about philosophy related jobs. Maybe that's just because of the university I went to - if you were good at a particular subject and wanted to then you'd do more studying and go into academia and other than that most people went into city jobs making lots of money - IT, banking, law, accountancy, actuaries or some went into teaching.

[starvingeyes]

odin - yes.

you can be a philosopher. they ponder from 9-5, 7 days a week. the pay is awful (nothing) however, unless you write a book.

or

you can be one of those starving guys who hangs around downtown talking about how nothing exists but minds or some other such idealist crud.

or

you can write song lyrics for britney spears.

[soccerchick]

To begin, there is no anthropological evidence to suggest that the human opposable thumb evolved before intelligence. At this point, anthropologists simply don't know which came first. Evidence points to these two features evolving side by side, so many think they developed around the same time.
Opposable thumbs are nice and all, but I'm just going to sit in a tree and use it to pick off my fleas until I think about picking up a rock and throwing it at the local gopher to produce supper.

As well, I don't see how emotion and objectivism/ libertarianism/ individualism are incompatible. Granted, I haven't read Rand much, but I have read Nozick, as well as Kane, and I think that rationalism is the very essence of emotions. Emotions are all about doing what we want (we things go the way we want them to, we get happy; when they don't we get sad/angry). Rationalism promotes the liberty of the self, and therefore the ability to do what we want, which should make us happy.

[call me andrew]

hey... anyone wanna make out?

[happening fish]

ok now you're just being a tease

[Narbus]

[soccerchick]

[happening fish]

[Neil]