RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 21, 2018 at 8:04 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2018 at 8:14 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(March 21, 2018 at 8:00 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It wouldn't be an active search for anything, just a list of dogma.
Coming to correct conclusions via valid reasoning from sound premises and deciding that the opposite is therefore incorrect doesn't mean the search ends or that the correct position is "dogma".
Dogma is what happens when you aren't interested in being rational at all and when you start with conclusions and confirmation bias rather than premises and logic. Dogma is NOT what happens when you reach a correct conclusion logically and discover that the alternative is logically impossible... and the fact that there are others who still can't see it doesn't mean it hasn't been seen. You are one of those folks who mixes up certainty and dogmatism. It's perfectly rational to be certain that squares have four sides that 2+2=4, that X is X and that those who disagree are wrong and confused. Either you understand something or you don't, and the fact that some people don't and offer alternative views doesn't mean that one view isn't certainly right for reasons that actually make sense. Moral relativism is bad enough but being relative about truth and logic and math is absolutely absurd. Sure, it's fine for the absurd position to exist... but it doesn't mean that the non-absurd position isn't non-absurd. In fact explaining the reasons why the alternative position is absurd is a great way to explain why and how the non-absurd position is correct. The truly best way to demonstrate the correctness of a position is to show that the alternative is logically impossible.