Philosphy is a waste of time

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

This thread seems to be more of a discussion about Philosophy as an academic discipline today, or "pop philosophers" which is just a tiny slice of philosophy.

Philosophy encompasses a lot of different things. Plenty of normal people engage in "philosophical thinking" in the course of a normal day or normal life.

It does need to be rescued, in some way, from the philosophers.

(For what it's worth, I'm wondering how the same might be true for theologians too).

Beautifully and succinctly put. To do philosophy is to cultivate a love for knowledge and for wisdom, which is relevant to everybody every day. It's a shame that philosophers seem to be some of the last people one expects to understand that.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The argument that philosophy is a waste of time is itself a philosophical claim — there’s no escaping philosophy! 

So what you’re saying is philosophy is like….a prison?

I could summarily delete this post. I won't...but I could.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Torie, in law school you would have been taught to clarify and/or obfuscate everyday language in much the same way that this Callard person teaches her students to. What you're making here is essentially just a distinction between the immediate social and economic usefulness of the two fields of inquiry. I think there's a lot less of any difference deeper than that than you seem to think.