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What’s the importance of philosophy? Apart from developing critical thinking
First, let me ask you what’s the importance of science or mathematics?What’s the importance of philosophy? Apart from developing critical thinking
“Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit; according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ:” (Col 2:8)What’s the importance of philosophy?
This would have driven me nuts. Empiricism in general, and logical positivism in particular, have in my view done more damage to the evolution of philosophical thought in the last hundred years than anything else. The universities of Europe and the United States are riddled with positivists, unable to see past the ends of their noses and embrace the huge world of wonder that is out there just waiting for them. And this pernicious influence is like a cancer, infecting every other discipline in the Humanities. No wonder young people seem to lack the ability to perceive and respect transcendence. Hopefully this dreadful pendulum will swing the other way eventually, but I see no sign of that happening any time soon.I can understand your frustration. Recently I was in a WhatsApp group with my co-religionists (Muslims). The group had ‘Philosophy’ in its name, but the admins there were actually very antagonistic towards Philosophy and reason. They were very oversimplistic in their views and quite materialistic as well. I ended up leaving the group because I laid out a fairly simply argument to prove the existence of the soul. However, it turned out to be too difficult for them to grasp, and they merely asserted that Philosophy has confused me into coming to conclusions based on “unverifiable” premises. Apparently only empirical data could constitute premises of certitude for them.
Oh, undoubtedly. The rise of the Internet has elevated positivism to practically the status of a secular religion. No, I’ll stick to my private, solitary studies. My blood pressure can’t take any more fallacious arguments and flagrant misuse of the term ‘begging the question’.It’ll probably get worse. With the advance of database information…
I don’t see how he can avoid it. The strong urging on the populace of a system of thought that completely discounts theology and all forms of mystical experience would seem to me to be essential to a proposed diabolical usurpation of world power. He has to make us think visions, apparitions and the voice of God are the laughable signs of senility in the aged and feeble-mindedness in the youthful, in order to ideally prepare the populace for his worship of power and strength, the better to lead us all to Hell.In your opinion, will the AntChrist use this new religion (let’s call it Enlightenment) to his advantage?