My academic interests are philosophy. When I was in the university, I took American Philosophy course as an elective. The subject was about Epistemology, a philosophy about knowledge. In the class, the lecturer told us about the development of thoughts in Epistemology and asked if we were agreed with them or not.
There was my favorite question in the class, does 'A Priori' exists in our world? A Priori is the knowlege before experience, for example, gifted, or child prodigy. If you think A Priori exists, do you believe that Mozart's ability in music is gifted (by god, superstitions, or else), and irrelevant to his experience? Some philosopher think A Priori exists, while the others think it doesn't.
I love Philosophy because it makes me think systematically. When I study it, I can see how paradigms of each period of times develop. How people in the different ages think differently, and how philosophy can help us to answer predicament questions in our lives?
Tuesday 9 June 2015
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It's an interesting class. I wish I could learn a philosophy class once in the future. I love the way analyzing other people thoughts and understand it, not judge it.
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