Philosophy Versus Science

[Alan V]

Here are some ideas put into practice that came about thanks to philosophy (and that many of us here consider to be good solutions to many of the problems in this world):

• the scientific method
  
• government
  
• laws
  
• democracy
  
• secularism
  
• secular humanism
  
• human rights
  
• freedom of speech
  
• freedom of/from religion
  
• capitalism
  
• socialist programs
  
• ethical guidelines
  
• pacifism
  

I can keep going, but many problems have been solved* partly thanks to philosophy.

Science provides the tools in some cases; philosophy provides the ideas in these same cases and many more.

*Note if the question of what counts as "solved" crossed your mind while reading this, just remember what examining that question entails.

Yes, there are unquestionably all sorts of useful spinoffs from philosophy which, like science, are no longer accountable to philosophers. I would include logic in that list.

However, the point which you are now making is that philosophy has broken into separate disciplines, each a specialization in its own right but each of which includes the genetics of philosophy. That's simply how things evolve with time. Philosophy is their great grandpa.

I was raised to believe in the fine arts like painting and sculpting, but can admit that they are not what they once were because cameras, computers, movies, and machines came along and performed many of their functions with better results. Professionally I rode the wave of technology or I would have become obsolete much earlier than I did.