Why do so many seeking religious or spiritual answers place their questions in the Philosophy category?

Question

Instead of, say, in the Religion & Spirituality category?

For me the problem is that if I've tried my best to give a philosophical answer o a puportedly philosophical question and then find out the questioner was actually looking for a religious or spiritual answer I begin to wonder if I've wasted my time. The fact is if I found the same question in the Religion & Spirituality category I'd likely answer it differently.

Missed the "t" before the "o." No spell check for Details. Wonder why.

bob: Religion & Spirituality is a subcategory under Society & Culture.

cdf-rom: I have no argument with someone placing the same question in different categories looking for different perspectives. I do that myself. I am concerned here with a religious or spiritual question placed ONLY in the Philosophy category and masquerading as a philosophical question. In other words, my objection is only to those questioners not actually open to a philosophical perspective.

Answer 1

religion and spirituality is a war zone. probably more rational people here.

Answer 2

Because the two are inextricably linked. The same is true of Space and Astronomy. Any time you try to reach ultimate answers, the ultimate answers overlap to a certain extent.

An example is the origin of the universe. Big bang, right? But if we say that the universe is matter and energy alone, then where do right and wrong come from...? If there is no such thing as an absolute right or wrong that is true all the time, where did we get the notion of right and wrong? Right and wrong are religious concepts (semi-religious at the very least) and thus ethics, morals, philosophy, religion and the origin and behavior of the universe all tie together. Maybe NOT Big bang, after all...!

It is a little amazing how many people can insist that there is no God, but turn around and say it is wrong for somebody to hurt them or rob from them or enslave them. If there is no absolute moral authority to say that one thng is good and another thing is evil, then the best we can do is say "Stop, I don't LIKE it when you hurt me, rob me, enslave me!"

And the only answer to that is what the Marquis deSade said: "Whatever IS, is right"; i.e., there is no right or wrong.

(Of course, he was not very intellectually consistent. He objected to it when people hurt HIM.) We might try to say the same thing, but in practice, nobody can consistently live that way. Some people may constantly use mental reservations (it depends on the definition of 'is') so that they are able to deny whatever they previously said because they only meant it 'metaphorically'. But we recognize such people as either insane or habitual liars and have nothing to do with them

So, all these things are connected, all these things overlap and all these things are related.

By the way, having just read your additional details, there have been times when I have asked the same question three times: in Space, Religion and Philosophy, because I anticipated that different people would give me a slightly different slant on things.
I don't see anything wrong with that. In fact, I would rather phrase my questions in very neutral language so that I can see what people really think.

I believe in Jesus, but if I mentioned His name the very first thing, I might not get people's unbiased opinions. Some people anwer some questions to share their knowledge, some to show off their knowledge and some to scoff at others' opinions (which is an attempt to conceal their own ignorance of the topic.) And there is no better way of concealing ones own ignorance than to accuse others of being ignorant.

People atuomatically read things into our questions, and also try to read betwen the lines. One of the first things that pops into anybody's head on a controversial topic is "I see where he's going with this. He's trying to trick me into admitting something I don't agree with, and he's doing it on purpose! I'll just show him that he can't pull the polyester over my eyes that easily...!)

That also is an assumption, and it probably causes more than half the ill-will in the entire world, not just on Yahoo Answers.

Answer 3

So why positioned up this interior the PSYCHOLOGY class. Philosophy is, in many strategies, an earthly faith. For those searching for solutions the the excellent questions of existence, yet at the instant are not waiting for God-wide-unfold solutions, will seek for the certainty of the philosophers.

Answer 4

Philosophy is the discipline of try to bring human thought into context with science and reason. Religion is about mysticism and the supernatural and has nothing to do with science or reason, but in all fairness, it is a part of human thought. I believe it can coexist with philosophy as long as dogma, miracles, and blind faith are not brought into play. But I must agree that there are no spiritual answers in philosophy.

Answer 5

they might want to seek answer from philosophical perspective rather than religious or spiritual perspective

Answer 6

I prefer philosophical answers, that is why some others want the same.

Answer 7

There are a lot of people that consider religion nothing but a philosophy.
As a Christian Pastor I don't particularly agree with that line of thought.

Answer 8

For simple reason.there is no any category called like religion &
spirituality(at yahoo answers).
Can't we enjoy together?
We are nice people here.
lets have fun together.

Answer 9

I'd say it's because there is a deal of overlapping of the three subjects.

Answer 10

if its spiritual and religion then it must be psychological
philosophy is to reason. understand your self and then you'll understand.