@vovk5758 just being an asshat, no offense meant. Although to your original comment, philosophy gives us a method to have logical discourse. Without philosophy, you couldn't discern the difference between science and religion. You'd be in capable of discussing or merely pondering creative and independent thoughts. You'd have a world of nihilist, cattle, and farmers. Most don't depend or even consider philosophy, but with its existence, we always have a path to Objective reasoning if all goes to shit... again. To rebuild and try another swing at living a universally prosperous and objectively honest life.
To answer the question in the title. Depends on who is asking. If it's asked as a critiscism of philosophy then philosophy is enormously usefull. if it's posited in favor of philosophy then it's uselessness makes it deep and profound. Philosophers are very good at post hock rationalisations.
Frankly, there is so such thing as not doing philosophy. One either does it well or does it poorly. More often than not, people do so poorly they've forgotten they hold philosophical views at all. ;)
0:30 "A route to personal (philosophical) discovery, and an atempt to answer (philosophical) questions." Basically the value of philosophy is doing philosophy. Some would call that circular reasoning. If you feel philosophy makes you a more rounded person in general, fair enough, but this deserves a little more explanation not strictly grouned in philosophy. (If philosophy solves problems created by philosophy in the first place this raises some questions.) For the more concrete part of your example. People haven't figured out murder is destructive before (modern) philosophy? Really? Isn;t it more likelyu philosophy is the post hoc rationalisation for our earlier discovery murder is destructive? Serious question: Why have we as a society decided 'ethics or morals' are the domain of philosophy?
Great video! I've heard it said before that the utility of philosophy in modern times is to make one question, or to explore ethical concerns; but the way you articulated all that in this video was really well spoken...(P.S., I'll never understand how so many Philosophy CZcams creators can successfully weather, or ignore dumb comments like the one below...I guess y'all are FAR better stoics than myself, LOL! Cheers.)
Philosophy has seriously changed my life and has made me a better person. It has also made me fall in love with learning and developing myself intellectually. Pretty useless if you ask me.
...by "extremely influential," do you mean in the worst possible sense? Yes, communist dictators have been "influential," but not for good reasons...I honestly can't tell if this is a poe comment, or not. Were you high when you wrote this?
@@DyarContreras Yes, i meant it in the bad way. Honestly, it seems to me that studing philosofy without having experienced real phisical work, creates a tendence to presume a intellectual superiority, some kind of mesianic wisdom. Most of Latin America terrorist were born in wealthie families, never worked before, and took philosofy studies to believe themselves as Mesias. Of course that philosofy is extremely important, the real important values for us as mankind are subjective, but we must not forget that there are no comprobated truths, but evident lies. So, thjnking that the reading of philosofy books makes one the owner of truth seems to be dangerous. By the way, i never used any kind of drugs
@@reynaldowify oh, okay….your explanation makes sense. Sorry if I came off as too harsh, or judgmental…I am a Mexican American, and to be honest, I don’t know too much about Latin American history. I have studied Mexican history, a bit on my own. I am aware though, of the Marxist ideology that is currently practiced in the governments of some Latin American countries, like Venezuela.
@@DyarContreras Thanks. I am argentinian, and currently we suffer a light version of socialism, or better, communist lovers. As south american, we had a lot of terrorist attcks , mostly inspired by Cuba, and of course, with the blessing of Moscow. Up from the late 60´s , the guerilla has acted several times Mostly composed by some cuban leaders and people from universities ( humanistic studies), even with catolic students that were inspired by the" teologia de la liberacion"
Philosophy is about as useful as Alchemy. It was a good building block to the better fields of study that came after it, namely science and technology.
My university course of philosophy has been quite covincing on that there is hardly anything more useleless than philosophy.
You can't even spell "phylosophy"😅
@@brutallyhonestfrank5542I have corrected the spelling, but it doesn't help philosophy as such )))
@vovk5758 just being an asshat, no offense meant. Although to your original comment, philosophy gives us a method to have logical discourse. Without philosophy, you couldn't discern the difference between science and religion. You'd be in capable of discussing or merely pondering creative and independent thoughts. You'd have a world of nihilist, cattle, and farmers. Most don't depend or even consider philosophy, but with its existence, we always have a path to Objective reasoning if all goes to shit... again. To rebuild and try another swing at living a universally prosperous and objectively honest life.
Philosophy isn’t useless, but a degree in philosophy is
First video I've watched of yours, fantastic stuff dude.
Great video as usual man. Keep it up!
Grateful for the support!
To answer the question in the title. Depends on who is asking.
If it's asked as a critiscism of philosophy then philosophy is enormously usefull.
if it's posited in favor of philosophy then it's uselessness makes it deep and profound.
Philosophers are very good at post hock rationalisations.
Frankly, there is so such thing as not doing philosophy. One either does it well or does it poorly. More often than not, people do so poorly they've forgotten they hold philosophical views at all. ;)
0:30 "A route to personal (philosophical) discovery, and an atempt to answer (philosophical) questions."
Basically the value of philosophy is doing philosophy. Some would call that circular reasoning. If you feel philosophy makes you a more rounded person in general, fair enough, but this deserves a little more explanation not strictly grouned in philosophy. (If philosophy solves problems created by philosophy in the first place this raises some questions.)
For the more concrete part of your example. People haven't figured out murder is destructive before (modern) philosophy? Really? Isn;t it more likelyu philosophy is the post hoc rationalisation for our earlier discovery murder is destructive? Serious question: Why have we as a society decided 'ethics or morals' are the domain of philosophy?
Great video! I've heard it said before that the utility of philosophy in modern times is to make one question, or to explore ethical concerns; but the way you articulated all that in this video was really well spoken...(P.S., I'll never understand how so many Philosophy CZcams creators can successfully weather, or ignore dumb comments like the one below...I guess y'all are FAR better stoics than myself, LOL! Cheers.)
Hahah can't give the jesters much time of day. Happy to hear you enjoyed the video!
It's all subjective truth,even science is,it's not exempt
I don't think subjective truth is possible in the first place.
what a great video😇😇
Have you seen “closer to truth” episodes here on CZcams?
I haven’t but they seem fascinating!
Philosophy has seriously changed my life and has made me a better person. It has also made me fall in love with learning and developing myself intellectually. Pretty useless if you ask me.
R u doing a degree in philosophy?
No! Just self study!
Maybe, but phenomenology and nihilism (as with the other sophistic arts) are definitely useless.
Fair but phenomenology I find to be fun to read and conceptualize. Low or no practicality though I agree
Absolutely not !!!! Stalin, Abimael Guzman, Mao, Pol Pot and many other extremely influential people started they carreer studing philosofy
...by "extremely influential," do you mean in the worst possible sense? Yes, communist dictators have been "influential," but not for good reasons...I honestly can't tell if this is a poe comment, or not. Were you high when you wrote this?
@@DyarContreras Yes, i meant it in the bad way. Honestly, it seems to me that studing philosofy without having experienced real phisical work, creates a tendence to presume a intellectual superiority, some kind of mesianic wisdom. Most of Latin America terrorist were born in wealthie families, never worked before, and took philosofy studies to believe themselves as Mesias. Of course that philosofy is extremely important, the real important values for us as mankind are subjective, but we must not forget that there are no comprobated truths, but evident lies. So, thjnking that the reading of philosofy books makes one the owner of truth seems to be dangerous.
By the way, i never used any kind of drugs
@@reynaldowify oh, okay….your explanation makes sense. Sorry if I came off as too harsh, or judgmental…I am a Mexican American, and to be honest, I don’t know too much about Latin American history. I have studied Mexican history, a bit on my own. I am aware though, of the Marxist ideology that is currently practiced in the governments of some Latin American countries, like Venezuela.
@@DyarContreras Thanks. I am argentinian, and currently we suffer a light version of socialism, or better, communist lovers.
As south american, we had a lot of terrorist attcks , mostly inspired by Cuba, and of course, with the blessing of Moscow.
Up from the late 60´s , the guerilla has acted several times Mostly composed by some cuban leaders and people from universities ( humanistic studies), even with catolic students that were inspired by the" teologia de la liberacion"
Philosophy is about as useful as Alchemy. It was a good building block to the better fields of study that came after it, namely science and technology.