Come On Barbie, Let's Go Party
Today, I realized that my time might be better served picking "Models" short-term for many of my interests.
I'm slowly growing to realize that my interests (including Math, Economics, Programming, Theology and Philosophy) are so broad that there's truly no way I'll be fully satisfied in any of them if I doggedly pursue all of them. But I like them all!
So, I'm thinking... maybe I need to find myself totems of sort, or at least gateways into each (completely arbitrary and not anchored one bit examples: Group Theory, Game Theory, Python, St-Augustine, Nietzsche / Poltiical Philosophy...) I think that this might give me the means here of truly developing my knowledge and interest in a field without drowning in the seas of content, and also giving me realisitic objectives for personal satisfaction.
Clearly, a good counter-argument to this is that these topics are broad for a reason: many of their underpinnings are nuanced, and take more than a single person or language to be properly canvassed. Philosophy and Theology are especially daunting from this POV, in part due to the highly-specialized language that has evolved to describe its concepts and foundations, in part due to the highly complex interaction between the great figures of the field, as ideas are shared, disemboweled, reshaped, clipped and sometimes outrightly stolen.
I'm somewhat embarassed that I only recently found out that Nietzsche was hugely inspired by Schopenhauer (who in turn was trying to extend many of the ideas of Kant, who gave birth to the framework that spawned Hegel, whose work inspired the polemics written by Kierkegaard, another buddy of mine)
All of a sudden, my plan to create a large chart depicting the relationship between the main ideas and people of philosophy is seeming a bit more intimidating...
I'm slowly growing to realize that my interests (including Math, Economics, Programming, Theology and Philosophy) are so broad that there's truly no way I'll be fully satisfied in any of them if I doggedly pursue all of them. But I like them all!
So, I'm thinking... maybe I need to find myself totems of sort, or at least gateways into each (completely arbitrary and not anchored one bit examples: Group Theory, Game Theory, Python, St-Augustine, Nietzsche / Poltiical Philosophy...) I think that this might give me the means here of truly developing my knowledge and interest in a field without drowning in the seas of content, and also giving me realisitic objectives for personal satisfaction.
Clearly, a good counter-argument to this is that these topics are broad for a reason: many of their underpinnings are nuanced, and take more than a single person or language to be properly canvassed. Philosophy and Theology are especially daunting from this POV, in part due to the highly-specialized language that has evolved to describe its concepts and foundations, in part due to the highly complex interaction between the great figures of the field, as ideas are shared, disemboweled, reshaped, clipped and sometimes outrightly stolen.
I'm somewhat embarassed that I only recently found out that Nietzsche was hugely inspired by Schopenhauer (who in turn was trying to extend many of the ideas of Kant, who gave birth to the framework that spawned Hegel, whose work inspired the polemics written by Kierkegaard, another buddy of mine)
All of a sudden, my plan to create a large chart depicting the relationship between the main ideas and people of philosophy is seeming a bit more intimidating...