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"Philosophy is a mental trap that produces no value." Then you find no value in the past 1000 years of Western thought? Philosophy helps me live a good life -
by peterashford 11y ago
"Philosophy is a mental trap that produces no value." Then you find no value in the past 1000 years of Western thought?
Philosophy helps me live a good life - I have a pretty good bullshit detector. Your post set it off quite well.
- VeilEm 11y agoIt think it was instrumental in helping us get to where we are. My comment is more around modern philosophy. Now we understand the importance of empirical observation and the benefits of liberty and fair laws we've probably maximized the value we get out of talking about how to think. Like I asked before, do you think that there would be a negative impact if philosophy departments disappeared overnight? What would they be?