What has philosophy actually contributed to society? None of the inane babbling of philosophers has ever resulted in a tangible benefit or ever done anyone any good.
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>>18283624Aristotle is correct.>None of the inane babbling of philosophers has ever resulted in a tangible benefit or ever done anyone any good.It doesn't need to be good. Greece became wealthy, and some of the wealthy didn't have to worry about anything anymore and started to contemplate everything. It contributed to society something for citizens to enjoy, like listening to them debate, once in a while you don't want to have your mind be enslaved and sleeping.
>>18283624science
Its served me for some things. But you have to know what to look for and where to apply it.Besides I'm more convinced now that either Socrates was a name or title shared by multiple people, or that these transcripts got the names of participants messed with somehow even generationally, for whatever purpose.
>>18283624Christianity
>>18283624>to societyPhilosophy has served the ends of literate smart people, in their quest to happiness with truth, or their quest of denial with rethoric.
>>18283624i still can't read plato, socrates reads like a onions redditor
Critical thinking, logic, ethics, religion, politics, jurisprudence, modern science. It's not hard to look this shit up, retard.
>>18283624Behold! A woman!
>>18284264So analytic philosophy is superior.
>>18283624The ability to ask question and get an answer in a coherent way. The mode of inquiry into the nature arguments, of truth, of beauty, of rationalism, of skepticism, of debates, etc.
>>18284298Philosophy also helps us to ask the right kinds of questions. Most uneducated retards don't even know what kinds of questions to even ask in the first place.
>>18284578Except it did and you're a fucking retard with no clue of what you're talking about.
>>18283624Your civil system, for one. Unless you think that throwing feces at other humans while naked is peak culture.
