Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?

[vulcanlogician]

If you want to lump critical thinking into philososphy that is fine. Otherwise science has superceded philosophy.

I guess you have a point... why would I lump critical thinking in with philosophy?

The earliest documentation of critical thinking are the teachings of Socrates recorded by Plato. Socrates established the fact that one cannot depend upon those in "authority" to have sound knowledge and insight. He demonstrated that persons may have power and high position and yet be deeply confused and irrational. He established the importance of asking deep questions that probe profoundly into thinking before we accept ideas as worthy of belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking#History

The scientific method wasn't plucked from thin air. It was painstakingly crafted by philosophers asking "How can we have consistent and reliable knowledge of things?"

Science was created out of philosophy. That's why it's called "the mother of all sciences." How can you have so much respect for science and yet no respect for something so awesome that it is capable of creating science.

And by the way, people were calling philosophy useless for over twenty centuries (since its inception, really)... well before it birthed the sciences or conceived of things like inalienable rights, balance of powers in government, empiricism, and civil disobedience.