Why? Are those people illiterate?

Question

I keep reading thousand of religion questions in philosphy section, why?
Art & Humanities--> Philosophy
Society & Culture --> Religion and spirituality
Please dont mix them, otherwise will report to Yahoo

Answer 1

Not: Illiterate.....Semi-literate.

Ignorant in the classic sense.



In frustration, Yours: Grumpy

Answer 2

Questions pertaining to angels and pinheads
were philosophical in the Dark Ages.

You know why they were Dark??
The Christian factions turned out all the ****** lights.
Burned down all the libraries... the Muslims, who some call regressive, saved the ancient manuscripts... thank Allah or whoever.

The christians killed their own-- "Heretic!"
Killed the rest-- "Pagan, Heathen!"

And they were left with the philosophy of idiots.

God is perfect! God is possible! Perfection entails existence! God Exists!

Such ridiculous crap.
And somehow preachers tell you theology is philosophy...
Every discipline Uses philosophy, that doesn't make the derivitive BS the same. There is no philosophy of golf. Gtfo.

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yeah mad madison
I'm fed up. God is more dead than Nietzsche.
I'm tired of talking about it...
Philosophy as subset of humanities is a crazy mistake, anyway.

Does God still loom around philosophy? yes... and it takes so much work to exorcise all the platonism involved in every quest for truth with a capital T. I can't think of any philosophers in the last 200 years that have defended the place of God in philosophy-- the whole project is exorcism. Like Derrida's treatment of the metaphysics of presence and logocentrism. Kierkegaard closed the book when he called it what it is -- a leap of faith. Russel proved the ontological argument, that SO MANY philosophers used, false.

Am I wrong? I can think only of Benjamin's idea of "pure language" that has any positive religious dimension to it in modern and contemporary philosophy.

Answer 3

Philosophy is a field of study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, in which people ask questions such as whether God exists, what is the nature of reality, whether knowledge is possible, and what makes actions right or wrong. The fundamental method of philosophy is the use of reasoning to evaluate arguments concerning these questions. However, the exact scope and methodology of philosophy is not rigid. ~From Wikipedia

ah, hem, good sir!
Philosophy is certainly a subject for the humanities (humanities includes subjects such as the classics, languages, literature, music, philosophy, the performing arts, religion and the visual arts). And, if you remember your 101 Humanities course, you will remember that the Florentine Renaissance scholars based their entire existance--their entire civic and personal lives--painting, writing poetry, sculpting, writing philosophical tracts, and designing buildings for the glory of God (the Roman / Christian version). So, how can Art & Humanities, Society & Culture NOT be intertwined? And, being that philosophy = love of knowledge , how can you limit that definition, when knowledge encompasses all subjects? Did not Plato himself write of the gods? Did he not conclude that there was, in fact, a supreme god, the good, the sun? And Friedrich Nietzsche--did he not say

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it?"

If the philosophical greats can offer their opinions on religion, then why should it not be appropriate for us amatuers?

Why the need to create such strict constraints? Chaos is enlightening!

Answer 4

The interesting thing is that usually philosophy ties in with religion. Rather, when a religious person follows the religion of choice, common philosophical questions come up.

However I understand what you mean. Rather, you'd wish for secular philosophy to remain in philosophy and religious philosophy to be in the religion and spirituality.

Answer 5

a) illiterate doesnt recommend moron b) they found out hearth, the wheel, the thanks to seek, and so on. c) being "illiterate", they didnt have the understanding we've at present. So, at the same time as your ideas is amazingly closed you'll make up motives issues happen for belongings you dont understand. like the egyptians. Definately no longer idiots, had a god for rain, solar, each and every thing they couldnt assume the muse of.

Answer 6

There are branches of philosophy that deal with religion.

A little while ago, one of the biggest philosophical debates going was how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. They concidered it philosophy not religion.

Answer 7

What does this question have to do with Philosophy? You should have posted it under Yahoo Products and Yahoo answers.

Answer 8

Yeah, this isn't a philsophy question. It's a Yahoo Products --> Yahoo Answers questions.

Tsk tsk. I won't report you THIS TIME, but consider it a warning! ;)

Answer 9

Get a life

Answer 10

Report yourself, Lennie. And learn how to write...