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Originally Posted by helpmestartauniversity  Philosophy directly gave rise to science, psychology, sociology, and most other fields in a typical College of Arts and Sciences. Besides that major stuff, here's a smaller specific example: modern computers would not be possible without fairly recent advances in Logic (a sub-field of Philosophy). |
logic seems to have found it's answers ok. at least it's a closed system without much room for debate. or maybe there is? that's kind of interesting that it could be considered a sub-field of philosophy.
"one or the other but not both" - just remembering what "exclusive or" is.
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I think most of this confusion is a result of people having ill-formed and wickedly narrow partial conceptions of what philosophy is.
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I know, for me, it made me think too much. I'm glad there are others to do that. I do prefer to experience things like "who am I?" instead of actually thinking I can answer it with thinking. But I also don't like ungrounded new agey stuff that is inconsistent.
"I think, therefor I am" - that really started it all, didn't it? And I feel we all are much more that what we think, don't you?
Don't worry, I'm not trying to say philosophy is nuts - it just makes me nuts.
Don't some spiritual approaches touch on the same questions philosophy does? I mean, "who am I?" is big in the spiritual questions too? And the answer in that world, is not a thought. It's a knowing that is inside us.
Some of the questions kind of drop away. Like "can you find yourself?" - if you really look for yourself as a separate self that we think we are, eventually there's a realization that there is no self, the illusion of the ego drops by just trying to find it. At least that's what I read in a book by the Dalai Lama. Now you can have a field day about me being new agey!
