Timeline for How will learning about philosophy impact real-life?
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| Sep 2, 2012 at 16:30 | comment | added | stoicfury | @JonEricson I would argue that religion (and all those other things you mentioned), as epistemological approaches, are philosophies; just not very rational ones. And that's not a slight to your religion; it simply does not solely require reason. Faith is used as a reliable source of truth whereas other epistemological approaches (e.g., rationalism) rely only on reason. This is part of the issue with the modern masses of Christians today — they forget this and try to rationally justify their beliefs in the ever-growing shadow of science, ultimately finding great difficulty in doing so. | |
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| Jun 21, 2011 at 17:48 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | I would argue that religion, natural ethics, and tradition were thoroughly convincing to nearly everyone before philosophers came along and rocked the boat. In some ways this would be an example of philosophy messing things up. But who knows? Perhaps we will land on a better answer in time. | |
| Jun 21, 2011 at 16:59 | comment | added | robin girard | @user712092 philosophy helps to live a better life through exploring the share of mysteries in it. Take a walk, try to find a place you are used to and there find a point of view an image or an object you have never noticed. It is of practical nature. For example I found mysterious the way you cluster people and assign properties to cluster. I found it a bit abstract, or at least mysterious. I guess philosophy would ask what is a biology researcher. Would you care about that ? | |
| Jun 21, 2011 at 15:14 | comment | added | user278 | Yes, there is a chance that You may find something interesting and useful even in not interesting topic. | |
| Jun 21, 2011 at 15:13 | comment | added | user278 | What differend point of view are You referring to? Do You mean some how-to-get-new-idea, how-to-find-errors, i-came-here-to-help-You-fix-Your-theory or is-it-ethical-to-work-on-it? I as a programmer have never had a need for philosopher, I have my doubt that a philosopher are invited to help for example some to some biology research. It sounds somewhat realistic that they could analyze a problems but there AFAIK specialists in each profession. Could You provide me with examples of such cooperation? | |
| Jun 21, 2011 at 13:46 | history | answered | Phira | CC BY-SA 3.0 |