<p>You’ve obviously never taken a good phil class if you’re so confidently standing behind such a subjective assertion. :(</p>
<p>maybe I’m wrong, maybe it’s just the phil classes I’ve taken, or the professors</p>
<p>but the 3 phil classes I took were to boost my GPA (and they did b/c they were unbelievably easy)</p>
<p>^^^^
law law law law law law law law law </p>
<h2>also, not having arranged your schedule in same fashion as a phil major would, what gives you the right to call ALL of my classes unchallenging?</h2>
<p>“I am impressed with k and p’s arguments regardless.”
what specifically impressed you about K’s? because whatever did it, i just don’t see it. please help.</p>
<p>Probably the professors. In all honesty, I’ve had some easy phil professors, but I’ve had two that really challenged me and changed my life.</p>
<p>What phil classes did you take?</p>
<p>^ agreed.</p>
<p>my intro and critical thinking / reading in phil classes were really easy.</p>
<p>I took Ethics, Theory of Knowledge, and Contemporary Problems</p>
<p>the reading/tests/quizzes were normal and the phil majors thought the difficulty level was regular</p>
<p>contemporary problems?
that doesn’t sound like philosophy philosophy.
and what’d you study in ‘theory of knowledge’?
the greeks?</p>
<p>it was a phil class, it was easier than any class I had taken…leading me to the conclusion that philosophy classes are easy and individuals who only take phil and IGETC classes haven’t been challenged in college</p>
<p>again…it might just be the classes I took, but It’s just my perspective that any dumb dumb can ace a phil class </p>
<p>*
“contemporary problems?
that doesn’t sound like philosophy philosophy.” *</p>
<p>what is philosophy philosophy? we studied Kant, Hobbes, some modern ppl talking about global warming, war, and depletion of resources. It was an interesting class, I don’t know if it was “philosophy philosophy” </p>
<p>theory of knowledge was the Greeks, kinda dull</p>
<p>What were some challenging courses that you phil majors took?</p>
<p>daymm, my school only offers intro, critical thinking and religion…kinda lame</p>
<p>and theyre a joke…even the “philosophy club” was a joke…</p>
<p>modern phil - very hard… super dense text. i got a 98 in that class, but studied my ass off and still didn’t think i had it down when i sat down to take the tests. in this class we studied, in detail, descartes meditations (1-5), hume, leibniz, spinoza, kant and touched on locke’s empiricism.<br>
2 midterms, 1 final, all long essay format. 3 papers, “has to fit on one page and address each concept fully.” … i fit an otherwise 5 page paper on to each page.
he gave us a study guide with 8 questions for each test. “you choose 1, i choose 2.” which essentially means, “know them all.” during each of those tests, i didn’t stop writing for more than 5 seconds at a time, for an hour and a half straight…
3 other people got A’s in the class. </p>
<p>contemporary phil - also really tough, dense philosophical text. i did well here, but at a cost… we covered 12 philosophers in 16 weeks and had to write 2 page responses for each treatise. each one took hours to comprehend, and plenty more to write a cogent and objective response.
same exact test format as Modern.
4 other people got A’s in the class. </p>
<p>honors ethics - not nearly as dense as the others, but the essay format on the tests ensured that you knew what you were talking about.
also, same style for tests: study guide with 8 questions. we choose 1, he chooses 2 = forced to know them all. </p>
<p>symbolic logic. - hard at first, and then, once you think you’ve got it, it gets even harder. truth tables are inherently evil.</p>
<p>Same here for symbolic logic. Some portions of it can be quite tedious. Fun stuff nonetheless. :)</p>
<p>philosophy of religion for me - the professor I took it with was amazing, but hard. It was a small class and there was lots of heated debate and class discussion. Great class - I ended up scraping by with an A. Only one of two people. The other person transferred the following term to UCLA.</p>
<p>that’s what I really liked about my phil classes, how you could debate openly</p>
<p>and if your prof wasn’t a total dou che, they would allow us argue about contravention issues</p>
<p>"- pseudo-intellectual says what? "</p>
<p>Come on pinker, it was Nietzsche and Heidegger’s whole thing, not being so abstractly rational that they alienate their ideas from life. You know?</p>
<p>“that’s what I really liked about my phil classes, how you could debate openly”</p>
<p>I’m really curious why you were bothered by what was going on back there then. >_></p>
<p>The philosophy classes at my school were very interesting, but decently easy. Essays left and right, but all you have to do is talk about the philosophical concepts. The hardest was perhaps my first one, Introduction to philosophy: reality/unknown, or something like that. I was so new to that stuff it blew my mind! Also I skipped a buncha classes.</p>
<p>yeah… i wasn’t so lucky… i had people, i think, with that ‘it’s a phil class, so it’ll be easy’ mentality in contemp, modern and ethics. this made the class discussions totally anarchical and nonlinear. in the beginning of the semesters for modern / contemporary, we started falling behind because the prof was holding back, trying to be nice and give students the light of day… even though, more often than not, their arguments / questions would have been answered / addressed by simply doing the assigned reading…
eventually, he cracked down a little, and started cutting people off with, “no, that’s not it. let me get back to explaining it. thanks.”</p>
<p>if anyone has taken Bobro at SBCC, or has the opportunity to, by all means, do it.</p>
<p>“Come on pinker, it was Nietzsche and Heidegger’s whole thing, not being so abstractly rational that they alienate their ideas from life. You know?”</p>
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<li>stop telling us how it izzzzz, man.</li>
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<p>Well dude, you called me a pseudo-intellectual, at least explain yourself lol. Do you believe you have a better comprehension of existentialism? Where have my assumptions gone wrong? </p>
<p>I don’t even claim to be an intellectual, how could I be a pseudo-intellectual >_>.</p>
<p>definitely, bro!</p>
<p>have i mentioned how many friends i’ve got on myspace?</p>
<p>no?</p>
<p>OVER 412!</p>
<p>that’s right… i’ve got OVER 412 friends on myspace. </p>
<p>peace out.</p>
<p>forealz, though… OVER 412!</p>