When it comes to philosophy vs. science, the thing is that a philosopher in the past had the same role in the society that a scientist has today. For example, in Shakespeare's "King Lear," there is a line where Lear says: "First let me talk with this philosopher. What is the cause of thunder?"
Lear, inspired by the still rumbling storm, is asking the question concerning thunder, hoping that the philosopher has a scientific answer. They were kind of experts on everything.
But today, of course, he would ask a scientist that question. Or if you want to know about any topic and decide to read a book about it, you will rarely read a book by a philosopher, but you would likely take a book from an expert in the field you are interested in.
So I guess the question is, what role does a philosopher or philosophy have today?
Lear, inspired by the still rumbling storm, is asking the question concerning thunder, hoping that the philosopher has a scientific answer. They were kind of experts on everything.
But today, of course, he would ask a scientist that question. Or if you want to know about any topic and decide to read a book about it, you will rarely read a book by a philosopher, but you would likely take a book from an expert in the field you are interested in.
So I guess the question is, what role does a philosopher or philosophy have today?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
