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RE: Thinking about knowing: How philosophy changed my life
Yup. You have said this with honesty and integrity and I'm hearing you. I think I learnt something similar and although I have written of it before (not on here as of yet) I certainly haven't said it as well. Oh, and I'm proof that you can learn to think about why you believe what you do without being a philosopher! That said, thinking and questioning your beliefs about things is best done in an environment that both challenges and encourages you. I do miss the rigour and the challenge, to be sure.
Ha, I'm sure you did learn something similar, and what's more, you learnt at least part of it in the same place as I did! As for you supposedly not being a philosopher, I'm not sure where to draw that line. Remember, a research degree in philosophy is neither necessary nor sufficient to make someone a philosopher.
lol. Granted, but lets just say I haven't been 'practising' quite as much :)
As Kurt Vonnegut Jr. said in regards to reading, it takes practice, and the more you do it the better you get at it (Or, I think he said something like this).
Its easy to take beliefs for granted, yet to question them, and scrutinise your assumptions, is something one can get better at the more one practises.