The Importance of Philosophy

[Mikkihiiri]

Brilliant. Just brilliant. Thank you, Dr. Johannes. Once more, philosophy may rise again.

[joshstudebaker]

What You said here reminded me of something I was learning today about Kant which is the synthetic apriori, I'm probably butchering that somehow

And the synthetic apriori is the thing that is At the very heart of the thing your talking about, and that is the thing that h
Isn't just rapidly dropping out of the culture but has dropped out of the culture for idk a hundred or two hundred years already

And thus the culture is at the cusp of a new phase and can't be resuscitated but must be reborn

So of course and obviously the key is a new orientation to science and being
Since science has severed the amblical chord to being and Kant saw this problem and was as you point out part of the problem himself

[hemlock]

Russell's view of philosoohy's limits makes sense to someone who treats philosophical problems as scientific problems.

[wandereroftheabyss-ol]

Science and religion both had failed when I had a psychological crisis. I longed for meaning in my life in this god forsaken world, was on the brink of suicide. No amount of therapy could help, until I ventured on a philosophical journey, I was redeemed from death, poverty, isolation, you name it.

[jorgschuster]

There is no way not to philosophize - in life, in science, in society ... We always have to presuppose some kind of answers to ultimately unanswerable questions in order to be able to lead our lives, to do science, to live together ... Questioning and discussing all those silent assumptions is what I would call philosophizing.

I think it is not wrong to strive for some kind of unity in one's philosophy. But I don't quite understand what you mean by "unity of being and thinking". I would love to see a video on this topic, though.

[joshdwyer]

I've never heard an apology of philosophy that I've found compelling. It's audacious to say and I wanna keep an open mind on these things, but it all just seems too quixotic for me.