http://grasp.dk/why-future-business-leaders-need-philosophy/
Within your area is philosophy relevant?
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Within your area is philosophy relevant?
Please read the article before posting.
The rising demand for both creative and concrete problem-solving as well as abstract and strategic thinking indicates the necessity to broaden the reflectivity-horizon of the narrow business perspective that future business leaders will determine their decisions within. Business tends to seek one rationalised conclusion at the expense of others. This closes opportunities, rather than opens them. Philosophy, on the other hand, can through critical reasoning continually question and rethink the assumed certainties and its basic premises. In this sense, business and philosophy might seem poles apart at first glance and their interdisciplinary potential has for long been largely unrecognized on traditional business schools, but this is about to change.
Other disciplines have elements of how to think within them. I know a few sociologists and if you speak to them about any topic you will probably get a different insight. I guess that is down to various philosophy modules or courses they do which have a similar approach. They are also very good in an argument, I mean discussion. I don't think philosophy is as important as others might think.
Quote "People who are talented in observational analysis--problem solving and logical thinking--are more likely to want to study philosophy."
Why is that? Surely people are more likely to want to study something that interests them. Are those people who are talented in such types of analysis predisposed to being interested in philosophy? Does this same predisposition apply to medicine, engineering or drama for example?
I went to school with this guy who would fit snugly into the philosophical type based on his abilities at school. He left at 16 and went into a circus. Last time I saw him was on a gorgeously sunny day out of the window of a dull school classroom. He was entertaining us all by juggling while riding a unicycle wearing eccentrically coloured clothing!! One of the brightest and deepest thinkers I have met too.