Today, Bets and I undertook a massive task: to go through the accumulated papers of 10 years, and dump what needed to be dumped. We just threw out a 4 drawer filing cabinet, and it was packed with useless papers. One of these papers was the following, from my time at OU as a Master’s student in philosophy. My observed rules of the academic study of philosophy.
- Whenever someone says “I will show” they probably won’t.
- Any ethical argument that relies on a Nazi example is automatically at question.
- The non-philosophical default setting for metaphysics is realism; for ethics is relativism; and for logic is ignorance.
- Even diehard Idealists won’t step in front of a bus
- “Ceteris Paribus” conditions aren’t and won’t
If any of that makes any sense, you paid attention in Intro to Philosophy.
2 replies on “Jason’s Rules of Philosophy”
Dude… Alarming! My Economics degree is obviously so far behind me that I can’t remember
what Ceteris Paribus means.. Uhmm All things equal? no. no. It means assuming the status quo right?
ARghhh.
BTW the textbox in your comments is annoyingly long dude.
My Intro to Philosophy didn’t cover any Latin terms. On the other hand, we did get to read Dashiell Hammett for credit. No Nazis, either.