I feel that philosophy is less about theories and more about people and what they have wrote. I like philosophy because I like the idea of creating ideas that could work even if they are very unlikely. Science Fiction I don’t really feel like calling my theories. If I cannot call my theories science fiction then what do I call them? I thought just theories, till someone told me it was philosophy. Now when ever I talk to people about philosophy they bore me with loads of peoples names and then ask me if I read something by someone. At that point I am so bored by the amount of people and books I heard, I forget to ask them about any THEORIES FROM THESE PEOPLE!
So I thought I would look up philosophy courses. I found a few and one had listed that there was an exam. This is where my idea of philosophy changed. There are exams and most of the questions are religion based. Not just religion but religions that are far unheard of by me. Some examples, “Explain nature and types of Hetvabhas according to Nyaya” or “What is the Integral Yoga? Explain.” As seen these questions are boring and even Google struggles to answer the first one then tells me it is part of the Hindu philosophy. The second is a religion I had never heard of.
This makes philosophy very much like the history of philosophy, and LESS ABOUT philosophy. I was once told that theology is more about creating theories about what happened. This well is a little wrong theology is about creating theories on God, and religion. Theology is more religious studies as it is not solely about creating theories but researching other people’s theories.
So why is philosophy research and not thinking? There are three problems with thinking up random theories. If you get a theory that has already been thought up then people will say you are copying them. There are also other problems such as, how to you teach someone to tell you about a theory they have? Or how do you prevent copying. The answer really is you teach them something. If you teach something then you need something to teach. Therefore it is easier to teach philosophy then to just get everyone to think up random theories. There is also the need for history and research of philosophy. If people did not read about them the great philosophers would not be remembered. I do not think that is wrong but do feel people should be less tested on other peoples theories. I feel if someone wants to know about a theory then they will read about it. Telling people loads and loads about a theory that does not interest them is not helping. In other words, people should learn about similar theories.
http://visionias.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ias-philosophy-mock-test-3-vision-ias.pdf
A link on Nyaya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaya
A link on Integral Yoga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_yoga
So I thought I would look up philosophy courses. I found a few and one had listed that there was an exam. This is where my idea of philosophy changed. There are exams and most of the questions are religion based. Not just religion but religions that are far unheard of by me. Some examples, “Explain nature and types of Hetvabhas according to Nyaya” or “What is the Integral Yoga? Explain.” As seen these questions are boring and even Google struggles to answer the first one then tells me it is part of the Hindu philosophy. The second is a religion I had never heard of.
This makes philosophy very much like the history of philosophy, and LESS ABOUT philosophy. I was once told that theology is more about creating theories about what happened. This well is a little wrong theology is about creating theories on God, and religion. Theology is more religious studies as it is not solely about creating theories but researching other people’s theories.
So why is philosophy research and not thinking? There are three problems with thinking up random theories. If you get a theory that has already been thought up then people will say you are copying them. There are also other problems such as, how to you teach someone to tell you about a theory they have? Or how do you prevent copying. The answer really is you teach them something. If you teach something then you need something to teach. Therefore it is easier to teach philosophy then to just get everyone to think up random theories. There is also the need for history and research of philosophy. If people did not read about them the great philosophers would not be remembered. I do not think that is wrong but do feel people should be less tested on other peoples theories. I feel if someone wants to know about a theory then they will read about it. Telling people loads and loads about a theory that does not interest them is not helping. In other words, people should learn about similar theories.
http://visionias.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ias-philosophy-mock-test-3-vision-ias.pdf
A link on Nyaya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaya
A link on Integral Yoga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_yoga
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