Is Philosophy stupid?

Answer 1

The argument could be made that anyone of that opinion is not the most intelligent person.

Answer 2

for an prolonged time philosophy and faith have been collectively. babies right this moment don't understand this, i did no longer understand till my third 300 and sixty 5 days of BA in philosophy. there is the recent age technology and no god human beings. There are some extra classic philosophers. and non secular examine classes are in the philosophy branch. Seperately: I hate ethics and government even though it is all i communicate approximately. faith too. i do no longer care approximately faith plenty anymore. Ethics, i desperate that i do have ethical concept and have self assurance in the ingredient yet am in simple terms wierd. government i nevertheless rant on approximately, possibly reason i don't understand.

Answer 3

Philosophy can fall to different definite categories. Provided that someone assumes is stupid, is likely to be generalized to the same definition.

Answer 4

Philosophy is interesting, and if you argue correctly, you could disprove gravity, or prove God is evil or good... both at the same time....!! personally I think it's a waste of time to debate whether or not a chair exists, when quantum physics tells you it's a bunch of atoms, which are vacuum or air, popping in and out of existence all the time - so nothing physical really exists!! :)

Answer 5

no it'sa bout reasoning

Answer 6

To prove through some rationale that philosophy is stupid, one would be using philosophy and thus undermine their very arguments. It is as if philosophy itself is deconstructive--in short, it affirms and undermines itself simultaneously (since to deny it is to perform it).

Answer 7

If one notes the basic meaning of "stupid," from Latin "stupere," "be confounded," "be amazed," then only in the 20th century has philosophy become completely logically aware of its fundamental "stupidity."

The last effort of self-fooling "philosophes" to claim they had a good system was the Vienna Circle/logical positivism. Wittgenstein and Goedel put paid to their basic error, which was their valorization of the notion that valorization was bad, i.e., human opinions were worthless, ethics valueless--and this by some who were Jews, in the time of the Third Reich. They apparently hadn't heard of Hobbes' moral rationalism, which is simply that, when you think about it, cooperation is generally better than destruction...so form a Constitution.

Since Goedel, philosophy has taken a bifurcate turn for the Maslowian "Self-realization" model--Husserl, Whitehead, Bergson, and Buber--i.e., arriving at the notion that man can develop I-Thou attunement with "this Mind which was also in Christ Jesus.," on the one hand, and toward psychologism of despair and reductionism, on the other (Heidegger, Sartre, and some "neurophilosophers").

Thus, once again, like Socrates, "we know that we don't know" (enlightened stupidity), "we Know that we Know" (Plotinian One Mind Soul-realization), and "we know that we're grown-up germs" (materialism, existentialism, nihilism).

If that's not classic "stupidity" (being amazed and conflicted), then philosophy is somewhere else. The phrase
"educated foolishness of this world" may apply.

The benefits of philosophy have mostly been the logic useful to theology and science, the science useful for manipulating and controlling Matter, and the logic useful for the deconstruction of fallacious reasoning.

You might enjoy "A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov, and "Nihilism," Father Seraphim Rose, and "Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph.D. and http://www.heartmath.org

Answer 8

It is not stupid, because it allows people to form unique opinions and develop perspectives with depth.
However, if you think that we cannot ever reach an objective truth about our existence and nature, than you may view it as a purposeless and ongoing cycle.

Answer 9

philosophy is masturbation.

really the only difference is that
intellectual self-gratification tends to be less productive, but more acceptable to do in public..

Answer 10

No stupid philosophy, only stupid people.

Answer 11

That is a stupid question of philosophy, which implies there are questions of philosophy that are not stupid.
You answered your own question.