RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 25, 2018 at 8:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2018 at 9:06 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(March 22, 2018 at 7:47 am)bennyboy Wrote:(March 22, 2018 at 3:29 am)Mathilda Wrote: What then is the field of philosophy? You just study knowledge?
You have to love it, or you're doing it wrong!
Epistemology is just one subfield of philosophy.
Personally it's the category I find the least interesting.
(March 22, 2018 at 8:05 am)Whateverist Wrote:(March 22, 2018 at 7:47 am)bennyboy Wrote: You have to love it, or you're doing it wrong!
That comes awfully close to what the religious say about finding faith.
He was being a sarcastic dick.
Those people who think science is the answer to everything and have no respect for philosophy, are far more dogmatic than those who understand the limits of it. Philosophy even deals with the limits of itself, not just of science and other subjects. That's why metaphilosopy is a thing.
It really is the grandfather of profound and deep discourse. Big talk instead of small talk. You wouldn't even have politics without philosophy. Why do you think democracy and philosophy both started in ancient greece? There wouldn't even be any science without philosophy. And again, like I said, the fact that Lawrence Krauss speaks of a universe coming from "nothing" and then goes on to talk about something, and gets rightly criticized for that not just by philosophers, but by less philosophically ignorant physicists.... the fact you get people like Krauss making a complete ass of himself, is just one of many examples of why philosophy matters.
Shitting on philosophy is really like shitting on the greatest minds that ever lived. Even amongst scientists, the most intelligent scientific thoughts are the more philosophical ones. The theory behind the science takes more thought than standing in a lab coat or memorizing equations.
