What Have We Learned?

Sarah asked "What have you learned?"

This is, of course, a rather loaded question, and doubtless one would have a different answer right at the end of the course than they might five, ten, twenty or more years down the line, so answering now could certainly provide an insight to my future self of how I once was (and in a public forum, no less! How delightfully narcissitic!).

I think I'll leave this in the form of a list.

1) I like eating meat, and will continue to do so, though I will certainly try to cut down on my consumption, and try to be more conscious of where it came from.
2) Socialists are not merely envious of those who excel.
3) Naturalism and supernaturalism will never find middle ground.
4) Time is real.
5) Radical constructivism, as it has so far been presented, is inherently unphilosophical, perhaps even anti-philosophical, because of its stubborn refusal to acknowledge the possibility of criticism.
6) I started this course as a constructive realist (or however we choose to name the philosophy). I now have a name for it, and the ability to explain and rationalize it.

To end with a very broad question that doubtless no one will tackle: What does it mean "to learn?"