Why philosophy?

Question

Please don't respond with "why not"; thank you.

Answer 1

Philosophy provides a means for humans to find ways to look for and organize what is meaningful about our existence. Without philosophy, we'd still be writing on cave walls. Its the reason the question "why not" came into being.

Every human since the dawn of time has been born into a world we do not understand, a conversation, full of ideas we are forced to accept as the way things are. We typically embrace some philosophical idea and maintain it, polish it till it shines as a guiding light for all our actions.

Philosophy allows us to ask questions from a new perspective, to step outside the conversation and begin to take a new approach to the stream of consciousness, indeed to form a completely new consciousness and define and create new meanings and new possibilities for action.

Answer 2

Philosophy is about precision of speech, clarity of thought and wonder. But continental philosophy has tended to obfuscate what was supposed to be clarified whereas analytic philosophy often has turned what could be interesting into something as dry as sawdust. Still, in this life, all we have in the way of pure thought is philosophy and theology (queen of the sciences).

Answer 3

Philosophy studies the fundamental nature of existence, of man, and of man's relationship to existence. … In the realm of cognition, the special sciences are the trees, but philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible.

Answer 4

Because we have a need to ask questions. We are the only species we are aware of that has the ability. Philosophy is the ability to question and to love the process of understanding.

Answer 5

Because philosophy is the love of knowledge.

Those who are eager to find some or more knowledge are scientists, and when they are meta-scientists they become philosophers, because their science then becomes epistemology, the science of science, the even higher love of knowledge, on the glowing path into transcendence, thus of ever more philosophy.

Therefore philosophy.

Answer 6

For me philosophy gives me a more innovative way to express myself. It helps me find the words to put my feelings into. It enhances my vocabulary and my creativity when it comes to writing and thinking.

Answer 7

you were smart enough to counter my answer before i said it, i dont know how to answer. i choose this category because it has nothing to do with giving advice, its pure opinion. and i am tired of listening people ask the same questions, most questions here are hardly the same

Answer 8

u know! i also dont know y philosphy but might cuz it goes deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeply and sometimes answer or Qs that we think have no answers it also make us use out feeling and mind in the same time isnt it?

Answer 9

why no... damn.