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James Ma

Professor Person

Philosophy Class

4 December 2009

Philosophy – Good? Indeed.

Throughout history, philosophy has been a really good discipline for some people to

study. It is good. In some cases, philosophy can help people to understand thoughts

and feelings about life (Mentz 2009). Occassionaly, this can be used for academic

research. For instance, some experts claim that the proportion of polar bears dying

is inadvertently correlated with the amount of breathing humans perform on a daily

basis and thus the meaning of life cannot be found in such frivolous pursuits as the

eradication or preservation, for that matter, of the polar bear species (Culling 2009).

As a result of such ground breaking research, the reader can safely assume that

philosophy is a worthwhile field of academia, a wellspring of knowledge, “a

proverbial conundrum of enigmatic proportions,” as Mentz put it.

To further understand the ideological credence safely placed in philosophical

research, one has only to examine those who have also perused the bookshelves of

a local bookstore searching for the meaning of life. “On first reflection there appears

a distinct lack of continuity in anthropological knowledge about Kurds.” (Houston

94, 2008). Clearly, there is a distinct correlation between philosophy and things that

are good.

Indeed, the following picture clearly illustrates the relative goodness of

philosophical analyzation:
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Furthermore, philosophy illustrates the internal need one has for

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trust and life (Culling 2007). The fact that deep

thoughts and processes occur occassionally is true:

“I made a typo in my annual budget request, but

don’t worry, there are only two things you can’t

buy for the test lab this year. Hardware and

software,” (Dilbert’s Boss, 2007). Sometimes when

people think about meaning of life, it is true that it

is meaningful per se. Such self-fulfilling prophesies

—as critics have deemed them—have not been

received so warmly:

“In the eyes of man, philosophy is but a small and

unrewardingly shallow pursuit involving only the

things you can think about on your own. This is

rather unworthy of further examination simply due

to its inherently cyclical, introspection-based

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approach to positivist study. Very little proverbial

‘new ground’ is ever broken” (Mentz, The Pitfalls of

Research, 2010).

In a similar manner, a wise and aged

scholar once poisted that umbrellas

represented a shift in the space-time

continuum: “With each opening of the

umbrella, it represents a shift in the

space-time continuum.” (Culling, 1854).

In some of Culling’s later writings, he

expounded upon this theory, arguing that

death comes to us all. “Life is but a gas

vapor. It smells good, but only lasts for a

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short time, and is bad for your brains,”

(Culling, 1907). As the work of this very

intelligent man shows, yes, Philosophy is

good.

According to the Wikipedia article on

philosophy, it has been growing.

“Within the last century,

philosophy has increasingly

become an activity practiced

within the university, and

accordingly it has grown more

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specialized and more distinct

from the natural sciences. Much

of philosophy in this period

concerns itself with explaining

the relation between the

theories of the natural sciences

and the ideas of the

humanities or common

sense.” (Wikipedia)
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As philosophy is on the

upswing, new theories

have emerged,

particularly in the area of

eye-crunchy

metaphysics. “Eye-

crunchies are the

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body’s natural way

of producing

croutons. An

essential

ingredient in all

salads” (Culling,
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2003).

For all of these

reasons,

philosophy

is really
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good

because

sometimes it

does
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make

things

really
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interestin

g about

life
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(Mentz,

1990).