RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 21, 2018 at 8:24 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2018 at 8:30 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(March 21, 2018 at 8:12 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Can you appreciate, at least, that the thrust of philosophy halts as soon as something is taken to be incontrovertibly true
No because that's nonsense.
Philosophy would only halt if EVERYTHING was taken to be inconvertibly true. And even that wouldn't matter if literally the correct answer to everything had somehow been discovered. That won't happen, no one is omniscient or capable of figuring out the truth or not about everything. But if someone was omniscient and did know everything, then they would be omniscient and know everything so it would be absurd to say they were dogmatic.
Someone THINKING they absolutely have the correct answer is different to someone actually absolutely having the correct answer because the alternative has really demonstrated to be impossible. There really are truths that you can be absolutely certain of, and in fact... they are *so* certain.... that in many cases the person doesn't even believe they aren't certain, they just think they don't. If you think you don't know that your consciousness exists, then you think you don't but you actually do. If you think you don't know that a square is a square, then once again... you're confused. It's not that you don't know it. You do know it you just don't know that you don't know it. If you are conscious of the reality of something, you don't magically become not conscious of it just because you think you don't. Just because you're deluded about what you experience doesn't mean that what you are experiencing is an illusion. Illusions and delusions are quite different. Thinking you don't see something when you do because you are conceptually confused is different to seeing something that isn't there because you are perceptually confused.
