Merci Tipex, tu sauve l'honneur pour le coup! Et t'as totalement raison que c'est chiadé pour les bacs S et ES (et je parle même pas des bacs technos!)
Translation: Thanks Tipex, you helped save face on that one. And you're totally right that it's handled badly for the scientific and economic baccalaureates (and don't get me started on the technological/technical baccalaureates!)
@Rayvy: philosophy is seen in France as teaching you different ways of thinking. You get to learn all about positivism, stoicism (a branch I try adhere to), objectivism, primitivism, et caetera ad nauseam. [/gratuitous latin] Yeah, it actually is very useful because a side-effect of this is teaching you how to think on your own.
What's more, you're confusing philosophy with immuable dogma. Philosophy is neither, it is a way to perceive the world.
@ Magus: you're on the dot, actually. It teaches you how others adhering to a current of thought think, thereby helping you forge your own personnal method of thought.
@Sirius: Logic is one aspect of philosophy among others: empathy, altruism, and misanthropy are others. Discordians are a branch of philosophy (before being a religion), and they willingly go against all logic. Yeah, philosophy teaches you counterarguments to help along discourse. Too bad most teenagers go into rage-mode instead of debating.
PS: Litterary baccalaureates FTW.