<p>I'm VERY interested in studying it and I'm just wondering how difficult/fun/interesting it is to study? It seems like an excellent course.</p>
<p>hmmm how can you be so interested in it and not know what it's about? what do you think it is? you should take an intro course to see what it's like.</p>
<p>urmom, if you're interested in ethics, I highly recommend "The Elements of Moral Philosophy" by James Rachels to whet your appetite. It's the most popular "textbook" on ethics. It's a slim, compact, and very readable book. I can't recommend it highly enough-couldn't put it down when I first discovered it.</p>
<p>I think that the questions you'll wrestle with in philosophy are the most interesting and fun questions one can ask. I can't do justice by describing to you what it's like, I can only suggest taking some classes, but to get some more of a taste, check out: [url=<a href="http://www.askphilosophers.org%5DAskPhilosophers.org%5B/url">http://www.askphilosophers.org]AskPhilosophers.org[/url</a>]</p>
<p>The thing that REALLY got me interested in philosophy was the movie Waking Life. Have any of you ever seen it? It's an incredible movie, the most powerful, moving and thought provoking one I have ever seen, and it opened a completely new world of possibilities, interests and discoveries that I have never felt or recognized before. Even far before that, I have always dissected ideas, cultural movements, behaviors, emotions, etc. to their very core, ever since I was at the tender age of six, never able to ever arrive at a proper conclusion and thus feeling more and more detached from the world. This is probably why I am so intereseted in philosophy. I was just wondering how the courses go, what the workload is like, etc.</p>
<p>i haven't seen the movie, but i can relate to what you're talking about. some specific philosophy classes might be of interest to you (philosophy of feminism, your own values, etc. there seems to be a philosophy class for almost anything), but it might also not be what you're looking for. You can always expect reading in a philosophy class, but the amount and content varies with the teacher and level. some classes require you to write short papers giving a critical summary of the reading and then some exams or term papers. philosophy teachers seem to value attendance and the teacher's i've had would give out a small assignment every class to turn in at the end to count for credit for being there (helps plenty with attendance). most classes combine both writing papers and tests together, but there are a few that only does one or the other.</p>
<p>PLS disregard title....
I'm a philosophy -- person -- for my 2 year degree (wich means my trascript is different from others because it includes 2 philosophy courses)</p>
<p>I've had one online phil class stateside, plus one in another country. I enjoyed mythology and religion much more. For me, phiosophy is too left-brain oriented. There are better choises if you're the creative type.</p>
<p>^if you read Plato, there are so much literary decoding. Philosophy uses many literary techniques (metaphors, etc.). It's true, philosophy is not very easy to get used to. that's why i think there may be better ways for urmom to satisfy your original wishes.</p>