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These 50 Philosophy Memes Might Either Give You An Existential Crisis Or Solve All Your Problems
Classical philosophers may have been sulking loners lost in their existential musings. But modern philosophers and philosophy students were born in the age of the Internet. The time when nothing makes sense and everything can be turned into a meme.
So, even our biggest existential fears and theories about the meaning of life can be funny. Don't believe me? Check out this selection of funny posts from the Instagram page "philosophy.memes" that, according to its creator, aims to fuel our existential crisis as we fail our thoughts. Memito ergo sum, or whatever Descartes said.
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HistoryNerd 5 months ago
Additionally, BrunoVI, the immigrant workers still get the lowest paying jobs without benefits that most "Americans" consider to be "beneath" them, the job the idiot lost was just cut for profit 's sake.
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SomeGurlOnline 5 months ago
https://www.history.com/articles/was-jesus-real-historical-evidence "It means that she or he, like 99.99% of the rest of the world at the time, made no impact on the archaeological record." Like me apparently, well so far, I guess.
How many humanitarians debating whether to major in Philosophy have heard that a philosophy degree is useless? Probably at least every other one. We can debate the practicality of "being a philosopher" all we want, but we cannot deny the statistics showing that young people are still choosing Philosophy as their major.
Private Wake Forest University, for example, reported a nearly 300% increase in Philosophy students in 2021-2022 compared to 1997-1998. For comparison, they point to their Politics & International Affairs department, where the number of students graduating grew by only 125% in the same period.
"But that's just one university!" you'll say. Well, not quite. In 2022, UC Berkeley saw a significant rebound in students interested in humanities education, too. Compared to five years ago, the number of students majoring in the Division of Arts and Humanities rose by 43.2%. And in comparison to 10 years ago, it's now up by 73%.
Philosophy may be having a moment in Canadian universities as well. Athabasca University reported a 12% increase in students taking philosophy courses in 2021. At the University of British Columbia, the number of philosophy honours students has risen by 17% too. The number of philosophy majors and honours students rose from 65 to 80 between 2014-2015 and 2019-2020 at the University of Alberta.
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Luke Branwen 5 months ago
Yes, all houses matter, but you should still prioritize the one that's on fire.
Young people might be turning to philosophy to make sense of the world in these tumultuous times. One student, Matthew Rowe, told UC Berkeley News that studying philosophy helps him understand and deal with the apathy people have for the current big issues, such as the climate crisis.
"Philosophy, in my opinion, asks more fundamental questions that seem to transcend global topics, such as politics, in terms of their everyday importance," he explained. "The problem largely has to do with how people have such a hard time comprehending the size and magnitude of the environmental crisis that they often turn apathetic toward it, in response."
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Nota Robot 5 months ago
I'm more on the Indiana Jones side of this picture, which is probably on the other side of the vase
If you've ever tried reading any philosopher's work (and not the SparkNotes version), whether for school or just for fun, you've probably experienced that it's not actually that fun (try Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze and Guattari and get back to me, if you don't believe).
Most great thinkers have used overly complex, sophisticated language, assuming that the readers will be noble intellectuals or at least members of the upper class. Philosophy is about humanity, but is it actually for humanity?
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troufaki13 5 months ago
Fun fact: the word gym - gymnasium comes from the greek word that means naked 🤭
Cambridge philosopher Simon Blackburn claims that the old masters of philosophy, from Plato to Wittgenstein, actually wrote for the people. Since Kant, Hegel, and other German philosophers, the subject apparently became corrupted. The concepts and the language have become so convoluted that philosophy has since been for the select few.
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Yet non-fiction cultural writer Stuart Walton disagrees. Just as many specialists (physicists, for example), philosophers have their own complex language. And claims that philosophy used to be more accessible are pretty ridiculous, too.
"It seems a reckless wager at best to portray Plato as 'writing for humanity,'" Walton writes. "When the philosophers in his ideal state are to be kings – that is, not just good at what they do, but rulers over the rest in a hierarchically ordered, rigidly unified polity. If ever a thinker wrote for his own kind, it was him."
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Kathy Brooke 5 months ago
The chemist: the glass is full, half full of liquid, half full of gas.
A philosophy graduate's chances of employment may be significantly lower than those of others. But there's at least one exciting prospect: being the curator of a successful philosophy memes page!
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Auntriarch 5 months ago
You are welcome to your own opinion. However, if you think I am anything other than fabulous, we will be unable to agree.
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Robert Beveridge 5 months ago
We all live in cages, most of us just call them "apartments" (or fill in the more upscale domicile)
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Highfalutin Heron 5 months ago
Reminds of undergrad physics dept T-shirts one year in the early 90s: "S*x kills. Become a physics major and live forever."
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Woof Yo 5 months ago
I am childfree, but I wouldn't ever say anything like this to my friends with kids. They have enough stress on their plate. And I wouldn't say it to my fellow 'dependent-less' folk either - cuz it might devastate them to hear something like that if they had wanted children and weren't able to. I don't wish to imply that this meme's message is invalid! The message is precisely one of the reasons I chose to not have children. There are just too many unknowns and this is a subject that requires a little extra compassion.
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Janet Sparrow 5 months ago
As a philosophy, major, I really appreciated all of these. I chose law instead of going into teaching on the college level, but I’m pretty happy. I still read philosophy and I still discuss it with my friends.
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SomeGurlOnline 5 months ago
As far as I know it, Nihilism doesn't mean life means nothing and therefore it's all suffering and b*llsh*t. Nihilism to me means life means nothing, so don't take it too seriously and therefore take joy in what you can while you're still here on this plane of existence. Please come at me. I like philosophy...
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BrunoVI 5 months ago (edited)
The idea in medieval education was that the philosophers would also study theology, economics, politics, science (then called natural philosophy), geography, etc. The priests who founded such schools wanted rulers (yes, mostly lay people) who would be competent in how to bring happiness to their constituents. This was before humanism was just an abbreviation for "secular humanism," but was a fairly unique notion that God wanted what was best for humans as opposed to gods, animals, etc.
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Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
They tell you that humans are creatures of reason and that's what makes them human, but in reality, it's our irrationality that makes us human. It is our propensity to look at a situation and then act in a way that is objectively wrong, and with unfortunate frequency, that makes us human. You want rational? You get a rock. A rock will, without fail, always act in the most rational manner. Drop it and it falls. You kick it and it flies. But only a human is going to look over centuries of economic data and come to the conclusion that the other country is going to pay for the tariffs.
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SomeGurlOnline 5 months ago (edited)
But please take comfort in that their perception of you is _nothing_ close to your own life experience. Unless they're your "soulmate", they _don't_ know you. Edit: and probably don't really, and I mean really and truly care.
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BrunoVI 5 months ago (edited)
Does OP mean if Clovis HADN"T been there? He defeated Arians, who argued the Old Testament and the epistles which argue based on it should not be included in the bible, although I think it'd be hard to argue that but for Clovis, Arianism would be universally accepted, merely that it would remain in much the same way Protestantism remains.
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Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
That's a really round-about way to all avoid telling your tag that you're currently being teabagged by a 13-year-old going by the name "xXMrMcDoucheswizzleXx78".
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