Why are Philosophy addicts such narrow minded bores?

Question: Why are Philosophy addicts such narrow minded bores!?

Rather like sentient centipedes with delusions of grandeur!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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A broad focus will always trump a narrow focus!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Los you only ask this becasue you lack understanding, people who enjoy music are counted as pretty cool, but people who enjoy wisdom (Sophia) are rated lower in society than those who might be able to help society progress!. In what way is someone who feels there is more to life than mindless ideas, in what way are they narrow minded bores, suerly it is you who lacks the undersanding that puts wisdom on the same level as reading a noel, only more factual!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

My, my, aren't you the elitist!?

We have no time here for lengthy debate; chatting is against the rules; compromising on your principles is not rational!.

Therefore; we plainly state what we mean, and we mean what we state!.

THAT, if anyone wants to know, is the "modus operandi" for true philosophy: speak in black and white, not gray!.

When someone begins sounding like a mysic, trampling all over the valid forms of the very sentences they use, they are automatically "unsound" of epistemological "validity," because to get to "soundness" you must pass the test of "validity!."
"A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion nevertheless to be false!. Otherwise, a deductive argument is said to be invalid!.

"A deductive argument is sound if and only if it is both valid, and all of its premises are actually true!. Otherwise, a deductive argument is unsound!."
http://www!.iep!.utm!.edu/v/val-snd!.htm

We have to be narrow minded if we are not to play the game of "Let's pretend the stakes are unimportant in the battle of ideas!."

"The conflict of Aristotle versus Plato is the conflict of reason versus mysticism!. It was Plato who formulated most of philosophy’s basic questions—and doubts!. It was Aristotle who laid the foundation for most of the answers!. Thereafter, the record of their duel is the record of man’s long struggle to deny and surrender or to uphold and assert the validity of his particular mode of consciousness!."

Review of J!.H!. Randall’s Aristotle,
The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1963, 18Www@QuestionHome@Com

All people like freedom, and many people find freedom in their minds, but some like freedom of their mind just because there they can be whatever they like to be, because in the free space of their mind the could do whatever they most of the time liked to do, then here the feel as if they are reining free, or in reality serving the purposes of their secret desires without ever being caught or being seen!. With the space of our mind there are painful comparisons, it is world of our own where there are no laws, restrictions, criteria, standards, tests, trials or examinations!. Philosophy then is like an allowance for such a world!. It earns for the mind again from the mind a licence to be in action!.

Philosophical insights, right or wrong, are like Grand National Produce of a country or a nation that it lives on!. Without ever having to be realistic, specific and to the point the mind then gets narrower in a sense that it no longer has any specific purpose, responsibility of a wider world around!. What mind thinks and feels is freedom could be just the great of the illusions, for that might very well be the prison!.

Care therefore must be taken for there is no end to any philosophical thoughts, right or wrong, valid or invalid, the search goes on however there might not be any clear purpose in view, and even when sometime the door of truth is found open it is not easy to enter it is easy to turn away from all the fantastic possibilities of doubt!. What is the true occupation and the qualification of my mind for a realistic world around!? The question should be asked in order for the mind to grow, thrive and develop properly!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Depends what you mean by 'philosophy addicts'!. If you mean people who are interested in and read a lot of philosophy (like me) we are actually very broad-minded!. That's the whole point about philosophy!.
But if you mean those pesky objectivists, call them whatever you like!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

ego
with intellectual one-up-man-ship!.!.
thinking that the more depth one can think
the more right it is!.!.
and the opposite can often be the case!.!.!.

its like the dissecting frog thing
dissecting something to find out how it works
and finding out in the end that it doesnt!.!.!.!.because you've killed itWww@QuestionHome@Com

Sentient centipedes!?

Like the analogy, don't understand it!. Sounds like prog rock lyrics!.

Syd Barrett must've been a philosopher!. Now it all makes sense!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Boring I can understand, but wouldn't philosophy addicts be of a particularly BROAD mind, not narrow!? What do you mean by they're like centipedes!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Philosophy is nothing more than Cerebral Masturbation!

So, the reason is that Philosophers are all WAN!.ERS!Www@QuestionHome@Com

You are clearly mentally ill!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If what you claim is true, shouldn't you know the reason(s) why!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

whos narrow minded!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

A fish!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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