2006-10-18 12:10:50 · 9 answers · asked by ttrixxyy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I don't know. But I agree with the later ones who didn't need an answer. I think that it should be more about the question and the place that the question takes you then if you actually get an answer or not.
2006-10-18 12:12:38 · answer #1 · answered by izzy k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you referring to the Socratic method, wherein people are taught by being questioned so that they think for themselves?
I think that Western society (US society, Puritan work ethic society, whatever) is goal-oriented because it's capitalistic and people can't just sit around contemplating their navels and how life began all that much. It's not enough to be a good thinker--you have to be a good do-er as well. An answer is a way for philosophy to have a result, and therefore, "value"--a result is as close to a product as philosophy can get. People try to make philosophy have a quantitative value, so you have to have an answer, lots of answers, lots of answers quickly.
Not that that leads to good philosophy. Our society doesn't place much value on philosophy in general. We like cheap sh!t fast. We like big, we like fast, we like convenience. Philosophy, ummmm, isn't exactly available in a blockbuster movie or in a tub at the local Capitalist-Mart store. Pity. So to fit in with all the nasty values of society, philosophy has become more answer-driven.
2006-10-18 19:59:55 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question...I don't think that ancient philosophies never achieved answers. I think that the teachers of those philosophies that you are thinking of taught them by asking questions to let the learner figure it out for themselves. And if they were incorrect, then the teacher would ask another question to help them see "the way". Now, teachers tell you what they think and what is "their way". Why? Maybe back then they believed that the learner could figure it out, and that they were not smarter or above the student. And now, they are preaching and above everyone else. Instead of allowing the learner to reach the same conclusion as the teacher, they are trying to control and convince the learner.
2006-10-18 19:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by Barry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never had to achieve an answer...Ah but they did. Alexander's Library. It burned down if you remember your history. We lost allot of knowledge that day. Everything was hand written then and not replaceable. Later the Roman's destroyed allot as well and in the middle ages well fire and self knowlege was not safe.
2006-10-18 19:22:32 · answer #4 · answered by Michael JENKINS 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
er... where did you get the idea that ancient philosophy never had to achieve an answer??
(i know you may end up revising your question to cover this... and thereby preventing me from answering it. then again, i suppose i already have)
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2006-10-18 19:13:21 · answer #5 · answered by shatzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People at the time of old . excepted peoples thoughts and feeling as such. there own, not theres.people now a days are as sheep. that will wont though to wont to know why it is that they must think that way are feel that certain way, then they will except it, but only if proven to them in a way they can except. people now a days wont to be sheep. it is in there nature now. back then they knew that it was simply anothers philosophical views.and excepted it as such.It is the effects of modern culture on the individuals. thought patterns and beliefs,of humans now days.. that is my oppinion.
2006-10-18 19:23:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It did. They just don't want you to know that answer they got.
2006-10-18 19:18:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think we have any answers?
2006-10-18 20:22:00 · answer #8 · answered by Squid Vicious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people are tired of whiners!
2006-10-18 19:18:15 · answer #9 · answered by Can I Be Your Pet? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋