煙腸日記:哲學系

鄺頌晴 Chung Ching Kwong
3 min readMar 19, 2019

腰痛到痴線,坐响同事房入面個健康球拉住筋發問兼傾偈。

同事話讀咗7年Law,考埋First State Exam,而家份工做研究可以睇下Social Science嘢「好refeshing」。

我打趣話「Philosophy都好有趣好Refreshing,而家要我legal thinking好辛苦」同事就話哲學嘢對佢嚟講 「too much」話細個自己訓响床上面諗點解自己存在已經好夠,唔想一日到黑都諗住呢啲冇答案嘅嘢。

我話,讀哲學就係每一日都諗下呢啲嘢,好開心架,明知冇答案都中個頭埋去,嗰個爽唔係來自「有冇答案」而係來自「感覺到自己用腦」。 同事表示唔識欣賞不了,繼續返討論點樣methodically證明Intermdiate嘅community standard有份塑造個discourse。

入文學院嘅時候,其實本身係想揀翻譯做主修,但讀咗幾個1字頭courses之後覺得難就唔難,自己啲grade都幾靚,但冇乜嘢好玩。反而個哲學1003令我覺得大開眼界,以前細個諗過嘅、聽爸爸家姐食飯討論過嘅問題都有涉獵,雖然係無「正確答案」,而且輕鬆A咗,諗住無死啦。

於是第二年就把心一橫揀咗哲學做Major,政政做副修,諗住大學4年一定好有趣。但之後我發現,如果唔係哲學嗰兩個1字頭必修咁簡單呢,我哋部門應該每年20個同學都收唔到…

於是Year 2開始,每年派grade之前我都好誠心咁做晒啲勁過儀式,寫勁過揮春、劈豬、勁過跑跑咗一年咁大把… 但最後都係搞唔掂,追唔返Year 1 瞓街搞到唔過2.5嘅GPA嗚嗚嗚。

但我都無後悔揀咗哲學系。

因為每一堂都可以「用腦」可以「諗野」嘅感覺實在太幸福。Year 3同Year 4每個sem都有上慈生(慈繼偉)嘅堂,通常都係1630上到1820,之後再有導修。個陣每一次落堂,都覺得自己好似個腦要虛脫咁樣,要用盡全力去聽去理解,啲嘢真係有趣到不得了。到而家望住自己寫到花晒嘅筆記,會好有滿足感。

而家响班律師身邊做research,慢慢開始無咗個種覺得自己無專業背景嘅心虛。因為training好唔一樣都好,佢哋係「專業的」都好,佢哋好多時都要靠我去幫佢哋去解一啲legal training無教佢哋嘅問題,例如咩係Discourse、AI Court Ruling有咩問題之類,哲學系去到呢啲時間就幾有用。

不過而家每次聽到身邊啲寶寶話想揀哲學做主修,把口都會阻止佢哋「唔好呀,爛grage啊,搵唔到食呀,出來渣兜呀」。同埋會話「It changes you as a person, not necessarily a good thing in this world」仲會叫佢哋準備定面試要答HR「哲學即係讀咩」嘅問題,但個心都會開心有人鍾意自己鍾意嘅嘢,有人同我一樣鍾意個種用腦用到盡嘅感覺。

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鄺頌晴 Chung Ching Kwong
鄺頌晴 Chung Ching Kwong

Written by 鄺頌晴 Chung Ching Kwong

貓老母。 IPAC高級分析員。 現於漢堡大學攻讀法律博士,研究個人資料保護/digital rights。所有內容均為個人意見。

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