Quote Originally Posted by Reficulris View Post
People who think their own thinking equals philosophy should try to read a few of the greats in the original language. I'm sick of people using "philosophy" as a synonym for vision, thought, strategy and other mental constructs.

Granted, philosophy itself has issues defining itself, and it might be a matter of scale/depth, but john doe's "philosophising about soccer" is an entirely different beast than let's take the forementioned Logischer Utersuchungen or Also sprach Zarathustra (or any of the other books from the "canon" of philosophy).

Also, equating it to literature is akin to equating literature to emails (yeah, both contain words) or a van gogh to painting by numbers (both use paint).

The interwebs have made people stupid

//rant
point taken...

i mean of course i oversimplified the analogy but my point was that the practical utility of a college major in philosophy is not much different from a college major in literature. I personally dont see the appeal of dwelling on other peoples' thoughts/writings, but sure, I concede that some thinkers' ideas have shaped the world into what it is today...