Philosophy Versus Science

[Alan V]

either pursuit would make me less useful in certain ways.

The idea that it is good to be useful is of course a philosophical idea. 

(etc.)

Like so many other philosophers, you seem to be over-thinking this.  I meant useful in terms of priorities, not in terms of good versus evil.

I studied "wisdom" literature for a long time in my life. I concluded that most of it depended on the idea that God exists, which was left unsupported.