2006-11-07 01:37:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Philosophy produces a variety of "subjective" definitions of good and bad. Read Hume about that. Nature reveals "objective" definitions of good and bad. For example, when people used to contaminate their water with human excrement and got sick from drinking the water, they blamed their gods and made up subjective reasons of who was bad, and therefore got sick, and who was good, and therefore did not get sick. But, when we learned to look closely at nature and found the small lifeforms of bacteria and such in the water, we objectively reasoned that the bacteria was what made the water "bad" or unhealthy, and that keeping the bacteria out of the water was "good" or healthy. Healthy is good. Unhealthy is bad. Most of philosophy and religion evades objective definitions of good and bad because with Nature defining those terms, people cannot mislead others with their subjective reasoning.
2006-11-07 01:54:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy avoids qualifications such as good or bad, right or wrong etc. which are born out of religious or moral values. This is one good thing about philosophy, since it helps objective thinking. What is bad in philosophy - well, no major conclusions seem to emerge out of philosophical arguments. But then, that is what life is all about and we can't blame philosophy for it.
2006-11-07 10:40:59 · answer #2 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the undeveloped nations, everything seems to be 'bad', including poverty, not to mention murders, killings, stealing, etc...
In the developed nations, the usual things that are 'good' are acceptable; anything unacceptable is considered 'bad' (hopefully, murder, which is really bad, is a rarity compared with undeveloped nations).
What is good about philosophy but a study of the dif views of humanity. I recommend that we study less of it but enjoy it with finding friends, people who are dif from us and ask them about their opinions. Not cool to stay behind books to study about people when you can go out and find meaning with friends.
But I'm not castigating philosophy either. Its merits are better left in the classroom. To taste the real world is a greater challenge.
2006-11-07 09:58:54 · answer #3 · answered by thru a glass darkly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy see the things as they are ! ~ it is good in that.
Philosophy suggests not to believe the things which can't be experienced ~ it is bad (in the sense that it is not always possible)
2006-11-07 11:43:58 · answer #4 · answered by Alrahcam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy is about too much thinking and too little action.
2006-11-07 10:27:44 · answer #5 · answered by St.Anger 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to move beyond seeing things in two polarities; good and bad.
2006-11-07 09:45:53 · answer #6 · answered by Sufi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋