Essay on Feminist Thinking

This last point is not to be overlooked. As any professor knows (they were once students, too), the act of deciphering whether the piece is favorable towards the professor’s own view can be the difference between in-class embarrassment or favor. To disagree with the author of the piece is often to disagree with the professor. To dispute the relevance or importance of the piece puts the student in an even more precarious situation, since it can be seen as an implicit questioning of the professor’s decision to include the piece. To disregard the piece as guilty of improper development or careless thought is sometimes tantamount to labeling the professor (or at least this course by that professor) with traits not welcome in academia. Taking of an adversarial position is, after all, behavior that should not be undertaken without considerable thought.

Although it is true that not everything worth reading is a philosophical argument, I take my philosophy very seriously. If I have found answers to important questions in my life through philosophy, I will make decisions about how to live my life based on these answers. Witness my absence in the pew on Sunday and you will be in evidence of one of the most important life-changing decisions in my life. I am not willing to base important relevant life decisions on ideas that cannot be supported with proper argumentation. I take this to be as incorrect as someone who says that he understands some point but is unable to explain