(July 20, 2025 at 7:50 am)Alan V Wrote: The problem is that certain philosophers still seem to think that some sort of absolute knowledge is possible.
Which philosophers are these?
Quote:But science changed the definition of knowledge in the process of learning, away from certain philosophical hopes of what was possible.
Scientists address certain kinds of questions.
Scientists cannot answer the question "what is a good life?" The fact that philosophy cannot find a definitive answer to this question is not a reason to stop asking it. And philosophers who address this question are certainly not expecting to find "absolute knowledge."
It is a mistake to ask of philosophers that they provide the kind of empirical, testable, quantifiable results that scientists work for. For some people it has become an ideological issue: they think that if someone writes a book that comes to conclusions which can't be scientifically tested, or doesn't allow us to make money or solve some practical problem, then that person has wasted his time. This is narrow-minded.
