RE: Has Philosophy over stepped it's boundaries?
August 31, 2014 at 1:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2014 at 1:07 pm by Mudhammam.)
(August 31, 2014 at 12:57 pm)PhiloTech Wrote:(August 31, 2014 at 12:47 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, for starters.
These things are no longer in the realm of philosophy but science. Although they do heavily stem from philosophy. Also Mathematics is 50/50 considering it is apart of logic although science is entirely reliant upon it.
The sciences are but specialized branches in what has always been known as "natural philosophy," itself but part of the trunk called "general philosophy." Empiricism and rationalism are still two philosophical approaches to questions about the nature of reality, or metaphysics, which is what I think most people have in mind when they hear the term "philosophy" nowadays.
The vicious abstractionism of the rationalists is to blame for the poor reception philosophy sometimes receives in the public mind.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
