RE: Natural Order and Science
February 26, 2016 at 5:13 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2016 at 5:16 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(February 26, 2016 at 1:58 am)Harris Wrote: Saying that 95% of philosophy is pointless and irrelevant mental masturbation is equal to saying 95% of science is pointless and irrelevant mental masturbation.
Why?
Science is not the same as philosophy. It's like saying that if you think that 95% of juggling is pointless and irrelevant then so is medical science.
(February 26, 2016 at 1:58 am)Harris Wrote: Philosophy was the original inquiry into the nature of the world. (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc.) It combined what we now call “science” with other aspects of reality, and asked all those questions about the origin of the universe, what it was made of, what it was all for, etc.
Exactly. Philosophy is generally obsolete now that we have created the scientific method. If you ignore science and your so-called philosophy is not applicable or useful to the real world in some way, then it is mental masturbation. There is a need for some philosophical musings, to gain a higher level perspective on the way things are going and to figure out why we should be doing things, but again, that's because it is relevant.
Not that what you are doing is actually philosophy. It's rationalised superstition.
