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>tfw to smart for philosophy

>>9384151
>So does cosmology and string theory, if you think about it

Let me guess, you majored in the humanities? Cosmology/Astronomy, and naturally space exploration, has had more of an impact on people's lives than a century of analytic philosophy.

>Philosophy allows people to understand truth, meaning and purpose
Much of it is superfluous. The more abstract and divorced from everyday life philosophy becomes, the less value and impact it has. With science it's typically the reverse, which is why STEM has certain merit that academic philosophy just doesn't in this day and age.

>>9384065
>What I was getting at is that what you pigeonhole as personal reflection is still philosophy but what certainly isn't philosophy is the real politics and the academic discipline as such

Fair enough.