RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 20, 2018 at 4:37 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2018 at 4:41 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(March 20, 2018 at 11:02 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 20, 2018 at 7:01 am)Mathilda Wrote: I have often ranted about philosophy in the past, more so about people who think that they are doing philosophy because they string along some arbitrary premises to reach a specific conclusion without ever applying it to the real world.
What makes something 'real'?
IMO science deals with experiential reality. What we call the "real world" which is ironically, subjective rather than objective
(March 20, 2018 at 12:05 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: One could say that philosophy is the illusion of knowledge.
One could also say that all chipmunks smell strongly of acid.
Philosophy is not the illusion of knowledge any more than green is the illusion of an umbrella.
Epistemology which deals with what is and isn't knowledge, is a subfield of philosophy for christ sake lol.
(March 20, 2018 at 12:14 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It's the ground floor in the funhouse...at least, and everything contained therein may not be entirely true but you'll have no way of telling up from down once you're in it....lol.
Why is it that people who view philosophy in low light tend to regularly show themselves to be buffoons?
