(May 4, 2009 at 4:52 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(May 4, 2009 at 3:46 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: science is the only philosophy that actually works
How is science philosophy at all? Isn't that just away of saying philosophy doesn't exist? Or is it 'wooly thinking' based on known facts? Doesn't it deny thought as only thought based on hard fact is acceptable?
Philosophy seems to have (as is usual within the English language) a correct meaning and a number of common usage meanings but, thanks to Asimov (who was one of those dratted Doctor's of Philosophy as you probably know) and his "New Guide to Science", it appears that it derives from the ancient Greeks. Asimov devotes some space to philosophy where he referred to the Greek investigations of the universe and that they called (and I quote) 'their new manner of studying the universe philosophia ("philosophy"), meaning "love of knowledge" or, in free translation, "the desire to know"'(page 8). I would argue that it is because current day philosophers seem to provide little or no direct value to the real world that much of the philosophy bandied about today is little more than academic psychobabble. The true philosophers are scientists like Richard Dawkins.
Kyu
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