RE: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
February 26, 2022 at 4:10 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2022 at 4:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There is a philosophy of steam cleaning your carpet, in fact, the philosophy that your carpet should be steam cleaned lead to the invention of the devices you use to steam clean your carpet today. It's a fascinating story.
Does your carpet need to be steam cleaned? In a word, no. As others have noted, as you yourself may suspect, philosophy can go far beyond any practical necessity or dry recitation of the facts of a matter. If cleanliness is virtue-making, and virtue-making is a compelling motivation to consumer activity, and consumer activity is a sufficient justification for industrial production on it's own.....
Combining this with Poly's concerns from before, with regards to alien species - they might notice that sterility (real or perceived) is the value making property. They could...as biological creatures, understand why biological sterility was important to a biological creature like us. Our ethics with regard to cleanliness and a possible need for steam cleaners would be explicable to them, and conceivable to them. They may not agree. They may be able to mount an evidentiary case that we're fucking nuts even by our own standards.....but that would be a demonstration that our normative statements are truth apt.
Does your carpet need to be steam cleaned? In a word, no. As others have noted, as you yourself may suspect, philosophy can go far beyond any practical necessity or dry recitation of the facts of a matter. If cleanliness is virtue-making, and virtue-making is a compelling motivation to consumer activity, and consumer activity is a sufficient justification for industrial production on it's own.....
Combining this with Poly's concerns from before, with regards to alien species - they might notice that sterility (real or perceived) is the value making property. They could...as biological creatures, understand why biological sterility was important to a biological creature like us. Our ethics with regard to cleanliness and a possible need for steam cleaners would be explicable to them, and conceivable to them. They may not agree. They may be able to mount an evidentiary case that we're fucking nuts even by our own standards.....but that would be a demonstration that our normative statements are truth apt.
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