Why was he reading philosophy when we know it's useless?
>>16887210Philosophy is to science what meta-cognition is to cognition. You don't arrive at a paradigm shift in physics by just doing science for the same reason you don't arrive at a paradigm shift in your thinking by following your regular thinking patterns.
why would you own a hammer if you have a vagina?I don't know, but maybe a man will come by and find it useful.
metaphysics, the first abstraction
>>16887210Albert Einstein famously rejected a personal God but expressed deep awe for the universe's rational structure, often speaking of a "God" revealed in natural laws, like Spinoza's God, not a being who intervenes in human affairs. Key quotes highlight his admiration for cosmic harmony, his disbelief in a punishing God, and his famous "God does not play dice" comment about quantum randomness. Spinoza's God is a radical concept, identifying God with Nature itself, a single infinite Substance underlying all reality, rather than a transcendent creator. This view, often called pantheism, posits that God is not separate from the world but is the world, possessing infinite attributes and expressing eternal essence. For Spinoza, everything that exists, from humans to objects, is a "mode" or modification of this one divine substance, leading to a deterministic universe where God acts necessarily, not arbitrarily.
>>16887210Looks like someone hasn't read enough Descartes and Karl Popper, or this thread would never even exist.(protip: focus on Descartes letters and personal communications)
>>16887210"I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law."Sounds like a snotty little German kid.
>>16887314>le categorical imperativeDid it never occur to Kant to ask what would happen if everyone dedicated their life to philosophy instead of toiling in the fields?
