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Why and when exactly did philosophy stop being the pursuit of wisdom/knowledge as it was defined by Pythagoras and Plato? I.e, the quest for Truth and to attain knowledge of what's truly real and the teleological end of life in this corporeal cosmos?

Don't you think the scariest scenario in a person's life is someone who believes the way they are living is worthwhile? Or that their worldview is correct? But in fact, it isn't. It's the complete opposite or simply 'off the mark'. You live your life convinced of this ignorance, and then you die in futility - never having the aporia necessary to voice the same mantra as Socrates: "I know nothing". This seems to be the worst fate. And the worst world is the one we're living in now that denies a telos to life, affirming only bodily and experiential pleasure as the end to aim for. Living your life for ephemeral likenesses of goodness, but never the essential reality of the Good itself (which you categorically deny as a modern nominalist). Are we in hell right now?

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Pic rel might help. Maybe not though. The diagram depicts an eternal reality, remember that.