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Why bother with Philosophy?

Desmond79

People wonder what the meaning of life is. However, reality is unexplainable.

Just accept that the majority are dumb, and that utopia is a pipe dream. Our thinking should be used to solve problems, rather than achieve some illusory goal.

  • nothing wrong with believing in something to make life bearable. im sure religion, spirituality and philosophy have helped lots of people find meaning in life.

  • I don't bother with modern philosophy, at least not the philosophy (or philosophers) from after the 14th century (with the exception of Galileo). 

  • Hey Desmond

    Reality is very explainable especially for us. Especially for us so strongly focused. No magic about it. Fallow Albert Einstein, and it will come all clear to you.

  • in reply to Desmond79

    i dont believe there is a good or evil.... one persons utopia is anothers evil.

    you can ask someone what their utopia is and to them it could sound very good and moral but to you it could sound like a very orwellian dystopia.

    there is no good or evil, just perspective and thought.

  • the trick with the meaning of life is that it has no meaning other than to exist and to be..... we are human beings.... all we do is be, and that is all there is to it. to exist and to be. there is no other meaning. your life is just a time from birth to death, you are heading on a slow decaying path to death and have limited time. all you do in that time is be...to exist... do what you want... your time is yours to use as you see fit... but then ofcourse governments came along and found a way to make people believe that they had to give away their time in labour hours to exist and so some people cannot understand life or handle life without work because with the government answering the question of the meaning of life for them their answer simply becomes to work until they die and convert all their living time into labour hours for the advantage of the elite few.

  • in reply to Desmond79

    What does utopia look like to you?

  • I teach philosophy or a university as a hobby... Earns a few quid...

  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    The point is that we can never achieve utopia. Good and evil are out there. Unfortunately, evil is growing stronger.

  • I believe all philosophers end up in philosophy prompted by the question of Fate or Free Will. Between the lot of them (I'm generalising a bit, but not much), they could've written The Matrix. 

    Philosophy isn't actually about the meaning of life, that's a spiritual quest. It's a science and like all sciences will help give identification to seemingly invisible systems at play. Without philosophy we wouldn't have the fundamentals needed for the Justice System, Education or Psychology. We wouldn't have rules to measure science by, the construct of ethics or aesthetics and right about now, the quest for expressing aesthetics is almost becoming a measure of survival for hyper-sensory individuals. 

    I'd say definitely bother with it! But one doesn't need to start with Plato. Peel through the philosophy section of a library and find someone who speaks to you.