Let's settle this for once

[Anonymous No.10541666]

What is the point of philosophy?

[Anonymous No.10541678]

>>10541666
What was the point of this thread?

[Anonymous No.10541679]

>>10541666
To ask the questions that need to be asked even if the answer is not knowable in the foreseeable future.

[Anonymous No.10541687]

>>10541679
And why is that necessary?
>>10541678
To get sick devlilish trips.

[Anonymous No.10541728]

Giving yourself a reason to drive fast cars.

[Anonymous No.10541730]

>>10541687
Well think of all of human consciousness ever recorded like it is one person's brain. If you or I have a question about something we may not be able to answer it in that very moment. Suppose we are unable to access Google because our phone is without service. We are able to hold that question in our consciousness until our phone is working again and then we can find our answer. On a much grander scale philosophy and historical record keeping is similar. The most popular example of this is the pre-socratic philosopher Democritus positing his philosophy of atoms thousands of years before science could test or verify anything about the philosophy that the whole universe is made up of small building blocks unseeable to the naked eye. If he hadn't asked the question and put forth the notion who knows if future humans would've picked up that line of questioning once other scientific advancements made it possible to test?

[Anonymous No.10541735]

>What is the point of philosophy?
Exactly

[Anonymous No.10541749]

>>10541730
>If he hadn't asked the question and put forth the notion who knows if future humans would've picked up that line of questioning once other scientific advancements made it possible to test?
What the fuck does it even mean? Atoms wouldn't be discovered if Democritus didn't suppose them?

[Anonymous No.10541756]

>>10541666
To woo women

[Anonymous No.10541799]

>>10541666
to confuse ourselves for pleasure much like booze makes us sick, and nice trips OP

[Anonymous No.10541828]

>>10541749
No, not necessarily. Serendipity has lead to more than one scientific discovery. The point is that the contemplating of questions often leads to good things. Today, for example, logicians who have contemplated questions about fuzzy logic and the algorithm of human thought are making contributions to the field of a.i. and computer sciences. At the most cutting edge level many disciplines are interconnected.

[Anonymous No.10541849]

>>10541666
to satiate the human lust for knowledge and understanding, to look for meaning where there is none(?)

hail satan

[Anonymous No.10542094]

>>10541666
Preparation for death.

t. Socrates

[Anonymous No.10542175]

>>10541666
to really make you think
unironically

[Anonymous No.10543318]

To clarify questions so that natural sciences may answer them.

All 'unknowable' answers, as it were, are nothing but mystical gobbledy-gook and questions pertaining to said answers shall be passed over in silence.