Philosophy teaches you to question the question of the question of the question, then the questioner. Then you wonder the meaning of life before releasing people have been trying to work it out for thousands of years, and here the question still lies.
People who think philosophy is useless also tend to think that society does not need to change. If you want to maintain the status quo, teaching people to question everything is a pretty stupid thing to do.
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*realising*
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I'm not sure if that relationship is true. To give you a counterexample, Hawkings used to think that philosophy is useless but not because society does not need to change, mainly bc he thought that science has taken up the lead in answer fundamental questions. What do u think?
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Oh no, you are terribly wrong! There’s also a special circle of hell of those who think the science made philosophy obsolete. They are avid progressives and really scary ones.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, a good example
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I wanted to pose you a Socrates-style question, but realized it would be obnoxious & went to drink a poison slower than hemlock, instead.
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Capital thrives on criticism, its state even encourages it to some degree - it helps them to determine where the limits are that need to be tackled or circumvented, and which inner-systemic "revolution" to launch next to fight the fall of the profit rate.
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Hence the industry of tv and tabloids. And possibly Facebook.
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We're increasingly live in a society where questioning everything might be seen as a malignant act, and I guess it's pretty obvious why.
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