On Tuesday, 26 December 2017 06:14:38 UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 25/12/17 19:28, Norman Wells wrote:
On 25/12/2017 18:09, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 25/12/17 13:54, Tim Streater wrote:

If only philosophers through the ages had appreciated that universal
wisdom, they'd have saved so much time, and perhaps been able to do
something useful instead.

They have and they did.

What you don't understand is just what that is.

The human mind imagines possible explanations for things, and in most cases then confuses those imagined stories with fact. And we have about 7 billion of them. No wonder then that there is so much bs in the world. Philosophy's job is to determine and points out that a good bit of it is bs, and thus help to weed out a lot of unconstructive and destructive nonsense. Regrettably the supply of philosophy falls far short of what the human species needs. Nonetheless it has achieved a huge amount so far.


NT