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Do you think the Department of Philosophy is retro as well? Theology has shaped humanity, wouldn't it be weird for a school as prestigious as Harvard to not hav
by neom 5y ago
Do you think the Department of Philosophy is retro as well? Theology has shaped humanity, wouldn't it be weird for a school as prestigious as Harvard to not have a school for it?
- hogFeast 5y agoMost of the ideas within Theology are ideas that went on to become known as Philosophy (for proof: Christian theology came after Philosophy but Aristotle was regarded as the authority on basically everything for pre-Reformation theologians, despite him not being a Christian or having anything to with Christianity...this also occurred in Judaism and Islam). There are obviously topics that are fairly inseparable from religion, for example hermeneutics, but religion is just another frame of reference onto all the issues that are still important to humans today. Whether you believe that God exists or not is usually not particularly relevant, you just believe the eventual cause is different.
- neom 5y agoThere are many parallels between theology and philosophy, that's why I mentioned it... I still don't understand what that has to do with them being passé? There's nothing rétro about studying divinity.
- Black101 5y agoPhilosophy makes a lot more sense then Theology.
- Grakel 5y agoYes, philosophy was rendered irrelevant by the scientific method.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoI'm hoping this is sarcasm
- neom 5y agoI presume it must be, here is a post from them philosophizing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27789493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27789493
- cosmotic 5y agoMaybe the argument is similar to: Having a "School of Alchemy" is a poor choice for teaching the history of Chemistry.