EDUCATION IN PHILOSOPHY VS EDUCATION IN SKILLS
I don’t view philosophy as a trade or skill, but like history, as general knowledge: ‘wisdom’. Skills and trades are niche applications of knowledge that assist in production under the division of knowledge and labor. Wisdom is the means by which we assist in the organization of society such that the voluntary organization of production in a division of labor is possible. This is why wisdom matters, but why wisdom and skill are resources that are useful the the production of different things: one is goods and services. The other is the ability to organize the voluntary production of goods and services.
Philosophy is moral and political. It will help you in general life. But only in ADDITION to skills which support you economically in the short term.
1) Philosophy, Economics, Law and Politics : The skill of the organization of voluntary production.
2) Economics, Finance, Accounting : the measurement of the organization of voluntary production: cooperative instrumentalism.
3) Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, and statistics : Logical Instrumentalism for use in the organization of voluntary production.
4) Craftsmanship, Labor : the transformation of things from one state to another.
5) Aesthetics: the study of the consumption of the fruits of production. 🙂
Pretty much in that order. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-07 02:04:00 UTC
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