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What is the use of philosophers? : Comments

By Pablo Jiménez Lobeira, published 7/10/2011

Philosophers perform the division of labour least practised and most needed today.

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Philosophy is important but it must not be a job paid for by taxpayers. Look what happened when religion became a job, nothing but trouble, same goes for philosophy.
Writers sell their books & if they're good they make a lot of money & they put effort & money into it so they deserve a reward. It's like any other job really. You put in an effort & someone wants to buy.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 8 October 2011 7:34:49 PM
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Formersnag,

Methinks you've missed the whole point of Jesus' teachings.
Posted by TrashcanMan, Saturday, 8 October 2011 7:40:17 PM
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'I'm wondering how long these people could survive if philosophy was deemed a field in which they'd have to find people to pay for what the philosophers have to sell. It's easy for them to live off our taxes which some irresponsible bureaucrats hand over to them with impunity for misappropriation.'

Towards the end of my employment, more than half of my salary was paid for by students who chose to do philosophy of education and paid full fees for the privilege. I could have earned all of it that way, had I not other teaching obligations.
Posted by ozbib, Sunday, 9 October 2011 5:13:58 PM
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Ozbib
Great. So you admit your services were only worth half what you were getting paid?

In your philosophy classes, how did you deal with the ethics, or rather then unethics, of such coerced payments?
Posted by Peter Hume, Sunday, 9 October 2011 9:05:18 PM
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No of course I don't admit that. How did such an idea get into your head? My other responsibilities were to students who were government funded. My point is that there is plenty of demand for philosophy.
Posted by ozbib, Sunday, 9 October 2011 9:32:50 PM
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http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12713#219678

ozbib, your dreaming, there is no demand for philosophy degrees at all, there is a demand from foreign students for visas to live in australia, any bogus qualification will do for a visa to the promised land.

in between 1945 & 1965 our education system was for educating australians, especially for TAFE college trade apprenticeship diplomas & university professional degrees, so our economy could WORK.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12713#219624
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12713#219626

Yabby & TrashcanMan, you misunderstand the TRUE teachings of christianity. Jesus was not a metrosexual softie, but a spiritually, morally & ethically strong man. christian forgiveness always has required REPENTENCE, first.

What do you suggest we do with criminals who have committed treason, sedition & corporate paedophilia?

Every member of the RED/green, getup, GAYLP/alp, Socialist Alliance over the last half century has a well documented, scientifically proven track record of committing these crimes.

So far, corrupt, lazy, LNP coalition governments have not bothered to prosecute these crimes against the people committed by the loony left communazis, because they too like our totalitarian, 1984, lame stream media controlled deMOCKracy/dumbocracy.

Moderate centrist conservative progressives like Bob Katter, Pauline Hanson & Don Chip are coming soon to a parliament near you & the price of supporting an LNP government will not be a carbon tax, GLBT marriage, or a tax talkfest.

It will be a royal commission on closet communism.

i would never advocate the death penalty or burning at the stake but a humanely run jail for the term of their natural lives with hard labour on community projects like planting trees, sealing the "gun barrel highway", other important "snowy mountains" type infrastructure projects, absolutely.

Oh & confiscation of all their assetts under "proceeds of crime" legislation to pay compensation to victims of their crimes.
Posted by Formersnag, Monday, 10 October 2011 11:31:30 AM
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