Why isn't everybody like me?!?

[Izzy]

Re: Why isn't everybody like me?!?

I don't know anything about philosophy other than what the term means, but it seems a lot better to me than those highschoolers or even college students who say they are into photography and expect everyone to believe they are deep and thought provoking.

[Cavernio]

Re: Why isn't everybody like me?!?

"The way we organize our lives and pick our values is our philosophy. The fact that philosophy includes ethics and values, art and aesthetics, politics, epistemology, and metaphysics shows how inclusive a field is. Everyone has opinions on these things."

Ah, but the scientific way to study all these is not philosophy but social sciences like psychology and sociology.

[3Bey]

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Ah, but the scientific way to study all these is not philosophy but social sciences like psychology and sociology.

Some people don’t realize it but, it's the naturalist that created science. What is the naturalism? A PHILOSOPHY that said that we can discover the world with some experimentation. That the entire world is material and that we can understand it. That, even the humain was a subject of experimentation. That the entire world was functioning with some rules, that we need to discover. Philosophy created the "experimental method". It's this method that make the science so dam good.

see below:

1. Use your experience: Consider the problem and try to make sense of it. Look for previous explanations. If this is a new problem to you, then move to step 2.
2. Form a conjecture: When nothing else is yet known, try to state an explanation, to someone else, or to your notebook.
3. Deduce a prediction from that explanation: If you assume 2 is true, what consequences follow?
4. Test: Look for the opposite of each consequence in order to disprove 2. It is a logical error to seek 3 directly as proof of 2. This error is called affirming the consequent.[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

[ffraxis]

Re: Why isn't everybody like me?!?

Pople are not like you because:

other humans do not love you entirely, and thus they can never be "one" or considered the same or an entirely similar entity.
other humans already have something else, themselves, and they will never let go of that bit which is consistent of something universally unique, which provides for the spectrum of emotions to mix with the ego.
other humans do not want to be like you, because you are not like them. The same reasoning applies to yourself, since other humans are not like you, you may not want to be like them. You may want to take some aspects that in your perspective provides an advantage, but you may never want to try and take everything.

[BeatofIke]

Re: Why isn't everybody like me?!?

It's who are are, we're humans.