Philosophers often align their brands with lost causes, because they figure that all the good ones are taken. Intellectual progress is so slow that you can pick a hill to die on, build an indefensible home there, and generations later it may still look like a fortress.
I disagree. For me, the point of philosophy is to discover what can be known. Philosophy can often be applied, but usefulness is not always a good criterion for deciding about truth. Feelings of usefulness are irrelevant by themselves.
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That's science you're talking about. Philosophy isn't about truth, but about the bigger picture of how we decide that we fit into the universe. What we imagine our role to be in life as a whole is where the usefulness comes in. If we don't fit in, we feel useless.
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I would call this not philosophy but therapy, but I don't think that it matters. The academic philosophers don't have a trademark on the term :)
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