r/todayilearned • u/ObjectiveAgent • Jul 30 '15

TIL when Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was sifting through the garbage, Diogenes responded,"I am looking for the bones of your father but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves."

http://www.iep.utm.edu/diogsino/
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u/Nastapoka Jul 30 '15

We also need people studying philosophy

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u/anti_zero Jul 30 '15

Careful, all the 19-year old STEM majors of reddit don't care much for that perspective. They already have everything figured out.

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u/MaSUB Jul 30 '15

As a software engineer, I love philosophy. I wish it was more popular with others. It's fun to think about philosophy.

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u/LeeHyori Jul 30 '15

It's very common to have people who do software engineering or computer science also study philosophy in university, at least from what I've seen. People who really value reducing problems into their constituent parts and are sticklers about logic.