Philosophical Dictionary

The third part of the "Philosophy Carol" series in which you meet the Ghost of Philosophy Present, coming along for a random and musical ride. You see how philosophy currently works in the world.

In the meme, the rest of academia asks philosophy to do something about its superiority complex, and philosophy calmly replies that it is superior. Philosophy was once called the queen of the sciences, physicists have declared it dead, and the term “superiority complex” comes from a psychologist. So who is right?

Philosophy started in the marketplace: Socrates talked to anyone who would answer and Diogenes ate in the agora. Plato’s Academy gave us the word “academic”, the Stoics named a school after a public porch, and philosophy cafés pulled it back onto the street. So who does it better, and is the degree worth the money?