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19990269 No.19990269 [Reply] [Original]

What is the most fulfilling field in the humanities/social sciences?

>Philosophy has no substance and is a waste of time
>Psychology is fiction
>History is probably the best of the bunch but 99% is boring.
>Literature is inferior to the other arts IMO. This is debatable
>Anthropology is also fiction
>Religion is good but I prefer the sciences for this aspect
>Political Science/Economics is another example of a waste of time/fiction. Nothing will change and no one has the answers
>Sociology is fiction
>Geography is interesting but most of the field isn't.
>Art is the only fulfilling one on this list don't even know if it counts as a field.

>> No.19990282

there are no fulfilling fields in the humanities/social sciences

>> No.19990363

>Modern academic philosophy is shit but by itsef is top 3
>There's a lot of interesting research but a ton of people just skim research some psychological concept and try to apply it to everything which is an unfortunate side effect.
>Same as #1
>Definitely inferior to good art and music.
>I like anthropology personally, only actual field research though not Prof. Goldberg cherrypicking stuff from studies and writing some pop sci book about the appealing lifestyle of the Mubumfuke tribe and labeling it anthro. Field also has overlap with archaeology which is obviously good.
>Religious studies have so much overlap with other fields that it's hard to rate but probably top 5
>Agreed
>Agreed
>Agreed

>> No.19990369

>>19990269
Philosophy is ironically the only field which actually deals with substance

>> No.19990372

>>19990269
>Philosophy has no substance and is a waste of time
Weird how pretty much everyone thinks through a philosophical lense and explains a vast percentage of why things happened from revolutions to cultural changes to differences in understanding. If you said it was a MOINTERY/work wast of time, I would agree with you.

>> No.19990379

>>19990269
>Nothing will change and no one has the answers
This is why no one will remember your name

>> No.19990390

>>19990379
Yeah everyone gonna remember your anonymous political image board posts in a hundred years

>> No.19990396

>>19990372
Reading philosophy adds nothing to anyone's mind. Anyone who has an IQ above 95 has already thought about all the concepts Kant, Hegel, and everyone has talked about so reading it just a waste of time.

>> No.19990446

>>19990269
archaeology.

>> No.19990478

>>19990269
Archaeology seems cool if you have access to the money and freedom to do field work on something exciting. Linguistics is probably one of the most respectable and might be fulfilling from a scholarly perspective.

History, literature, and the classics are all definitely fulfilling, but have little to no practical use. They are even worthless for elite socialisation now, but can be personally edifying. Still, you would surely find something to like within them because they are so capacious. Just need to be mindful that the low barrier to entry into these fields make them potential breeding grounds for charlatans and unscholarly personality-disordered people with axes to grind.

Some other fields are genuinely interesting and perhaps fulfilling - religion, philosophy, economics, political science - but attract the worst crowd.

>> No.19990729

>>19990269
None of it is "fulfilling." I'm not even sure what is meant by that word.

>> No.19990951

>>19990269
Law is most fulfilling financially, however Philosophy, economics, and history is much less boring.