So this is gonna be it for my philosophy foundations. First I gotta stress again that this is not a subject you should be majoring in. There are so many different things to learn about in this world. And even then, if you have little life experience, most of your thoughts are moot. So go out and live life and build a philosophy off of that.
I don’t believe the average person should spend a lot of time thinking about these. Again, this mainly applies to people in positions of power who are creating systems that regular people inhabit. I don’t believe reading philosophy by itself makes you a good person. Some of the kindest souls out here haven’t read a word and some of the evilest ones gotta whole library.
I studied this to lay the foundation for how to approach these big subjects. Kind of a sharpening the axe before I start chopping the tree.
The book didn’t show me as much as I was hoping it to. I wanted it to go deeper into metaphysics and epistemology since those are the branches that matter most in the real world. But like anything else, I’m only gonna study those when I’m ready to apply them.
My biggest hurdle with this was simplifying all of these posts. A 3-minute post only allows for about 600 words, even if I speed through some of them. I didn’t want to break these into a bunch of parts, but I left out a lot of details I feel like I should’ve kept in. So in the future, I might just say screw it and do multiple parts. Simplifying is important, but not at the expense of leaving out important details. I said before that not everything can be broken into kindergarten blocks.
So I know this was a very dumbed-down version of philosophy, but these next subjects are going to be a lot bigger. I really want to get into religion but Ima have to approach that carefully. I tried reading the Bible like a regular book, it doesn’t work out, at all, so don’t even try. I’m gonna have to research theology and historical contexts so I can do this right.
So for all of that, my next humanities subject will be politics. I have On Politics here by Alan Ryan. Same reason I chose Dream of Reason for philosophy, I’m hoping this’ll give me a bird’s-eye view on the subject so I can approach it better. And election year is coming up so I want us to be informed as we get ready for that.
I hope you learned something from this series. See yall next time.
Grant Abraham 