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What's the point of philosophy any more?
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RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
(March 20, 2018 at 4:33 pm)Hammy Wrote:
(March 20, 2018 at 9:33 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: People have been declaring philosophy useless for a long time. Socrates' contemporaries couldn't find any use in it, and that was before it birthed the sciences.

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Philosophy is the grandfather of civilization.

-not even remotely.  For all of the civil utility of philosophy..it had nothing to do with the establishment of civilization.  That was a pre-existing condition.

Quote:Why is it that people who view philosophy in low light tend to regularly show themselves to be buffoons?
My opinion..because buffoons call their silly beliefs "philosophy"....and it gets ridiculed by association.  Case example above..when you call "experiential reality".... "subjective".   Tongue

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RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Sal - March 20, 2018 at 7:33 am
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Brian37 - March 20, 2018 at 4:36 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by tjakey - March 20, 2018 at 9:40 am
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Silver - March 20, 2018 at 12:05 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Brian37 - March 20, 2018 at 12:16 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Brian37 - March 20, 2018 at 12:33 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Brian37 - March 20, 2018 at 4:32 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by The Grand Nudger - March 20, 2018 at 4:41 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by bennyboy - March 22, 2018 at 12:30 am
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by bennyboy - March 24, 2018 at 10:31 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Angrboda - March 25, 2018 at 12:52 pm
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by bennyboy - March 28, 2018 at 10:24 am
RE: What's the point of philosophy any more? - by Shell B - March 25, 2018 at 5:05 pm

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