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Jasper84 · 07-21-2007

Seen some pretty good points so far, papasmurf. Still think there is no use to philosophy.
Points i have seen: (I am biased, and i like lists)

There is no practical use if nothing has value. Contemplating what has value to you is considered philosophy. So IMO without philosophy, a person must have a huge gap in understanding of himself.

"Philosophy is a vessel, through which you take and share your wisdom with others. If your wisdom is water, then philosophy is the vessel. Each and every person in this world is a philosopher in his own way, and each differ in his/her own views." said dvvel, I disagree, i do not think philosophy is the act of communicating philosophy. Perhaps that is when we recognize it.

"The point of philosophy is not to find answers, but to understand critical thinking and debate." yaaarrrgg

I think philosophy is also about trying to strip distracting aspects off problems, by abstraction and assumptions. Finding underlying reasons for different opinions. Looking at opinions bottom-up.

All these seem pretty sensible answers to me. So dont go to another forum saying you did not get sensible answers until you can tell us why they dont look sensible to me.

(Ok, sometimes that is hard to counter even blatantly stupid arguments.)
Then there is still the definition of philosophy. I have the feeling that philosophy might be a too broad term? It covers metaphysics(?), 'the goal'-what we should do, and maybe i sneakily added the stripping of distracting aspects.

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Jasper84 under construction Join Date: May 2007 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Posts: 593	Re: What practical use is philosophy? Seen some pretty good points so far, papasmurf. Still think there is no use to philosophy. Points i have seen: (I am biased, and i like lists) There is no practical use if nothing has value. Contemplating what has value to you is considered philosophy. So IMO without philosophy, a person must have a huge gap in understanding of himself. "Philosophy is a vessel, through which you take and share your wisdom with others. If your wisdom is water, then philosophy is the vessel. Each and every person in this world is a philosopher in his own way, and each differ in his/her own views." said dvvel, I disagree, i do not think philosophy is the act of communicating philosophy. Perhaps that is when we recognize it. "The point of philosophy is not to find answers, but to understand critical thinking and debate." yaaarrrgg I think philosophy is also about trying to strip distracting aspects off problems, by abstraction and assumptions. Finding underlying reasons for different opinions. Looking at opinions bottom-up. All these seem pretty sensible answers to me. So dont go to another forum saying you did not get sensible answers until you can tell us why they dont look sensible to me. (Ok, sometimes that is hard to counter even blatantly stupid arguments.) Then there is still the definition of philosophy. I have the feeling that philosophy might be a too broad term? It covers metaphysics(?), 'the goal'-what we should do, and maybe i sneakily added the stripping of distracting aspects.