I believe your question is "What kind of a philosophical thought and beliefs do pure academic sciences can offer to the world ?"
To some people, philosophy is nothing but a game, something unrelated to the real world.
That said, philosophy is a branch of knowledge, and quite valuable. In general, science deals with answers to questions. Philosophy deals with how to formulate properly the questions, and it is not, by this definition, of immediate profit. A proper question is about an specific subject, and the skill and work required to properly formulate the question becomes almost invisible once you have the answer.
Science has advanced quite fast in the last two centuries. This advance happened because humans have become more aware of the laws of nature. Yet, those laws have always existed, but they were not obvious to our ancestors because they made certain assumptions about nature. The fact that we now make assumptions more in line with reality, as opposed to a merely different set of assumptions, is a philosophical advance.
All people should be equal before the law. I take this idea a true and generally accepted. And yet, for millenia, it was acepted that since some people are "better" than others, they deserved preferential treatment. Intellectually, the idea has been accepted by a significant minority only in the last few centuries. Even today, not everbody, everywhere accepts it. At least today, most people would give lip service to the idea. If you ask the people who do not accept it, you would find they have all sorts of logical reasons to justify their opinion. Of course, their reasoning is not valid. The fact that we now understand why this idea is true and not merely wishful thinking is a philosophical advance.
I believe your question can be rephrased as "how can abstract knowledge can be useful in the real world ?" If so, I should use a concrete example. If you are to build an apartment building, you would plan everything before you touch the first brick. You have to, to ensure you can build at all, and that the building is sound and well made. This planning is abstract, yet necessary. A small error at this stage can be costly later.The same happens with any action. First, you must decide whether to carry it out or not, then the proper way to go. The second is not insignificant. Your resources are limited, and you must administer them wisely. Besides, you may drop some desired goals if they were too "expensive." These considerations are abstract, and academical science, properly applied, is nothing but an elaboration of this planning procedure.
2007-12-15 19:19:19
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answered by epistemology 5
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There can be nothing else but the Big Bang Theory. In Cosmology, theory advanced to explain the origin of the Universe, developed from the ideas of Georges Lemitre and advanced in the 1940's by George Bamow. According to the Big Bang Theory, a giant explosion 10 to 20 thousand million years ago began the expansion of the Universe, which still continues.....
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2007-12-15 19:00:41
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answered by Third P 6
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Test for error, error prevention procedure is Wisdom and wisdom is the subject of and for philosophy.
2007-12-16 12:02:32
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answered by Psyengine 7
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