<p>Why is Philosophy considered a hard major?</p>
<p>Short answer: Lots of critical thinking. Additionally logic can be pretty challenging at times and is math-like.</p>
<p>“Math-like” Hahaha.</p>
<p>Go to a library or book store and pick-up a book entitled Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre. Try to read and understand it. Question answered.</p>
<p>i find it the easiest and most interesting general study class. I’m an engineer btw.</p>
<p>What do you mean why is it hard? It involves a lot of analytical and deep thinking - which is essentially required of any philosopher.</p>
<p>If you just want to be a student of philosophy and nothing more, you can get by simply by reading the required texts and listening to your professor’s analysis (or the editor of the text) of the text and get through college. You will need to take a compulsory logic course which is the only thing that might give you a bit of trouble. </p>
<p>But any student of philosophy, who is truly interested in the subject, typically wants more than that out of the course. If you want to be a philosopher, you need to be able to think logically and spend lots of time doing that. Its NOT just about reading texts of other philosophers ideas and writing about them. Its about what YOU think, you need to formulate your own rational opinions on philosophical issues and justify them. This can only be a result of very intense, profound thinking.</p>
<p>It’s cute when people in philosophy classes try to apply logic and fail.</p>
<p>I’m taking Philosophy this semester. What can I expect?</p>
<p>It really is pretty difficult. You read a text, but what you’re reading is only one level of the text. You have to think very critically to fully understand what the author is trying to get across. It’s very difficult to write good papers unless you have total understand, which requires a lot of dedication.</p>
<p>I’ve never found philosophy particularly difficult to understand (but I do find it boring and even annoying at times), but writing papers on it is torture for me.</p>
<p>Then again, I’m not a philosophy major (although I have a good friend that just graduated in it)…so I’m sure there are more difficult parts of it that I have very little experience with.</p>
<p>It really depends on the philosopher and the type of philosophy. Socrates/Plato is usually very direct and logical, while Aristotle, Zeno, and Parmenides can make your head ache. Math/science majors usually do well in logic because of the reasoning they already know.</p>