(January 7, 2016 at 1:33 pm)robvalue Wrote: By "best philosopher" I suppose we mean "best at writing the maximum amount of words without saying anything about reality"
I jest. Philosophy is important, I've come to realize how much as of late. In certain forms, anyway. It can also be entirely pointless if you're not careful. But if you keep your head in reality at least, the mental workout can be good even without practical applications.
It's not just about mental workout. Philosophy nowadays should be the guide of science, in a certain sense. It should be scientific in nature, or at least scientifically informed and oriented, but it's still extremely important, as it ever was. It's the purest form of knowledge there is in that it's raw.