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Sure but teaching you how to think doesn’t address the category error I’m describing here. A lot of religious people ascribe to a religion because some aspect
by neonological 6y ago
Sure but teaching you how to think doesn’t address the category error I’m describing here.
A lot of religious people ascribe to a religion because some aspect of that religion helped the in some way. Does this make all aspects of the religion the absolute truth? People following this flawed wisdom end up supporting creationism as the one and only truth. Are people doing the same thing with philosophy?
Sure you can learn logic from a philosophy class, but that logic cannot in turn explain why “aesthetics”, “religion” and “ethics” is a sibling philosophical field of study to “science”.
- ThomPete 6y agoits not trying to explain what they are its trying to ask the right questions.
- neonological 6y agoAsking the right questions doesn't negate the fact that there's a category error here. Either way, "asking questions" is not what people classically think of when they talk about philosophy.
- ThomPete 6y agoThere is no category error. Again asking the right questions teaches you how to think about the world. The fact that people have misconception of what philosophy is doesn't change anything.
- neonological 6y agoThe category error exists whether or not the questions are right or wrong, it is irrelevant to my point. Let me put it this way. Part of philosophy is the Milesian school of thought. The idea that everything is made of water. A completely ludicrous idea that I would argue makes the practitioner ask the wrong questions as we now know things are made of complex particles. Does this have anything to do with the category error I’m describing? No. Science and the Milesian school of thought simply don’t belong together regardless of what right or wrong questions your favorite field makes you ask.