Philosophy as a way of life!

Why Study Philosophy? As an answer, the University of Detroit's Philosophy Club posted the following points. What do you make of it? and let me know. Why Major in Philosophy? Philosophy is one of the most practical majors in college.  Philosophy imparts skills that will be valued by any future employer. Philosophy enhances your problem-solving capacities by contributing to your ability to organize ideas and issues, and to extract what is essential from masses of information. Philosophy helps you to distinguish between different viewpoints and to discover common ground among them. Philosophy helps you to appreciate a variety of perspectives so they can be synthesized into a unified whole. Philosophy helps to eliminate ambiguities and vagueness from your speech, and enables you to present what is distinctive about your position through the use of systematic argumentation. Philosophy develops your ability to explain and communicate difficult material. Philosophy enhances your persua

Ethiopian Philosopher  The Meditations of Zara Yaquob (1) Introduction I would like Zara Yacob to introduce himself in his own words: I was born in the land of the priests of Aksum. But I am the son of a poor farmer in the district of Aksum; the day of my birth is 25th of Nahase 1592 A. D., the third year of the year of [King] Yaquob. By Christian baptism I was named Zara Yacob, but people called me Warqye. When I grew up, my father sent me to school in view of my instruction. And after I had read the psalms of David my teacher said to my father: "This young son of yours is clever and has the patience to learn; if you send him to a [higher] school, he will be a master and a doctor." After hearing this, my father sent me to study zema. But my voice was coarse and my throat was grating; so my schoolmaster used to laugh at me and to tease me. I stayed there for three months, until I overcame my sadness and went to another master who taught qane and sawsaw. God gave me the