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Originally Posted by helpmestartauniversity  Take away philosophy from humanity, and you'd be left with purely unjustified randomness...which would quickly lead to mass extinction and degeneration to a non-thinking animalistic state of affairs. |
I have to question your consistency at this point. First you assert that philosophy cannot provide answers, that all moral philosophies are unjustified because they depend on the assertion of a first premise and then you claim that philosophical theories influence politics and this is a GOOD thing. All we have is a facade of objectivity.
To say that the removal of such facades would lead to the destruction of society is ludicrous. We aren't united by philosophical doctrines, we are united by shared vocabularies which are derived from shared hopes. It is entirely backwards to assert moral good or bad absent of a functional goal. The goal or hope comes first and the shared vocabulary is a promise of the fulfillment of that goal. If modern society seems bleak it is due to our lack of ability to formulate convincing stories with the increasing shortsightedness and greed of the surviving democracies, coupled with the exploding poverty in LEDC's.