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Originally Posted by punkgrrrlie10
It has nothing to do with throwing it away at all. It has to do w/it not being useful in any other way than "enjoying being enlightened" which doesn't put food on the table.
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A perfect student of Charles Sanders Peirce and James ... and you say you don't use philophy much.
I've had to take a lot of mathematics towards my computer science degree and found that formal logic is pretty useful in formal proofs and, at times, some programming. Much of the other things I've learned in some basic philosophy classes more or less amounts to self-improvement and/or "enlightment" which may make you and interesting conversationalist at parties as long as you don't push it so hard that you become boorish. As for practical use in the job market, I'd have to agree with you that one of the few forms of employment that you'll find with it is in teaching it too others. It's not like you can roam the local ville like Socrates and make a living out of corrupting students ... even HE had a side job as a mason ... a fella's gotta eat ... and I'm not too crazy about the taste of hemlock.