thread: 2007-02-26 : Exorcism followthrough
On 2007-03-04, Matt Kimball wrote:
NinJ,
I honestly am having trouble figuring out what benefit I get from philosophy. And I'm thinking hard about it. What you may be getting at, I suppose, is that in some ways I was raised in a tradition which I find intellectually bankrupt, and I was able to reject the tradition, but that left a hole in my psyche which needed to be filled with something. That's certainly a possibility.
But that seems dangerously close to admitting that I am doing religion, and man, that is hard for me to admit to myself.
Free will, specifically, well, I dunno. It's a repsonsibility, but also an opportunity. I suppose it is an ethical motivator.
