RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 27, 2018 at 4:00 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2018 at 4:14 am by vulcanlogician.)
(March 27, 2018 at 2:30 am)Mathilda Wrote: Times have moved on yet I am not sure that philosophy has.
THAT is exactly philosophy's value. If things are moving along fine, and the sciences of the age are logical and coherent... philosophy will be of little use. But you might want to keep philosophy around anyway. Why?
What if the Zeitgeist makes a wrong turn? Philosophy will be there to say "Hey, you made a wrong turn." The science can't do this. They never have, anyway. Philosophy has done it countless times. That's what it's good for.
Philosophy doesn't conform to the times. Just because the times have moved on, that doesn't mean philosophy has. You are trying to criticize philosophy, but you are naming her virtues instead.