How worthless is Philosophy?

[vulcanlogician]

So we decide we need to teach people ethics..whatever specific crisis we're responding to in that notion colors how we teach ethics.  

I'm not so sure we need to teach people ethics. The reason I espouse ethics 101 is that it teaches people to think about ethics. The hard problems with it. But also, how you can't just dismiss it.

This has absolutely plagued western post modernism.

I like postmodernism. But, if I had one criticism, I think postmodernists are too skeptical about ethics. Like, being skeptical about ethics is a good thing. But dismississing all ethics, or indeed any truth statement, because it must come from a certain perspective goes too far imo.