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What did Philosophy ever do for us?

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Ah, philosophy. The ancient art of overcomplicating the shit out of otherwise simple matters since 1758 :)
 
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BrachioPEP said:
E.g. What practical use is it?
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Philosophy actually teaches thinking skills. Learning classical logic and forms of argumentation teaches one how to spot fallacious reasoning.

It encourages discussion in arguably the hardest topics, where we may never know the answers to.

Topics like ethics, origins of everything, what it means to be human or conscious etc. What is truth, what is knowledge, value, beauty etc.

Philosophy provides the framework where these topics can be discussed and help progress our understanding because even though just like in science we may never have all the answers, so too in philosophy we can always expand our knowledge even though we may still be asking the same questions.

Questions like: "Are things different to their parts". "What is identity", "Is there a god" (spoiler No), "what makes something immoral", "do we have moral obligations" etc.
 
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