Philosophy About Kant

Philosophy? Oh That’s Child’s Play. Literally.

By: Mariam Shams Tabrez

When fresh-faced and wide-eyed freshmen walk onto the Rollins College campus or any undergraduate campus for that matter, they are quickly exposed to preconceptions of all the majors. Biology/Biochemistry/Chemistry/Physics: they spend way too much time in the lab, breeding microscopic worms months on end is a lifestyle, and getting a 45% on at least one exam during your time is a given. English: learn a little too much about the structure of a sentence, read thousands of pages of reading, and be the grammar Nazi of their Facebook friends. Theater: incredibly animated bunch that are a little on the weird side in a way not many can describe. Political Science: not all of them know everything about the next presidential election, yes some of them will pretend they do. Psychology: there are two types of people in this major- those who know that taking one or two or five undergraduate psychology classes won’t deem them capable of psychoanalyzing all their friends and those who, sadly do not. Philosophy: a group of students who come off as a little pretentious, question everything, and are low key usually on the debate team. However, taking my neighborhood ICE class, Revolutions of the Mind (Philosophy for Children) my view of philosophy changed completely. Being a double major in political science and psychology and knowing all about the election and not psychoanalyzing the friends (only sometimes), I never thought that philosophical concepts could be easily attained by me, let alone 3 and 4 year olds.

In the beginning of the semester, it was a little bit of challenge for all of us to understand that there is not a clear answer to everything. Knowing that the point of philosophical discussion is to analyze things that do not have clear answers was not working for some. I mean as a college student living in an academic world of deadlines, memorization, and the constant question of Do we need to...