Why is Philosophy Important?

answers1: Philosophy is about as valuable as a used diaper.
answers2: i agree 100%, well said
answers3: You're proper- but most effective partly. What you suppose
was once undoubtedly correct when Aristotle used to be around. When
you consider that then, philosophy has branched out into other
disciplines, arithmetic and physics, for illustration. Scholasticism
that held sway till renaissance served as handmaid of faith. Which, in
outcome, way a dogmatic conclusion was given and philosophy had to to
find proofs to justify it. I think Kant was once the pioneer of
state-of-the-art philosophy. He eliminated the last traces of
scholasticism but in the approach, he became metaphysics the other way
up. Present day philosophy has an totally delicate challenge to
participate in. It has to find the ideal law with which information
gleaned by way of different sciences can fit in. On this experience,
it stands at a 2nd cast off from observable data ( observable is used
here in widest feel). I agree you've gotten put philosophy on the
pedestal it deserves. However I disagree it should be a foremost
subject alongside math and science in the course of grade university.
My argument is scholars lack maturity stage to fully grasp philosophy.
We need to wait until one has grasped lots of the facts. To present an
instance, Stephen Hawking's try to to find TOE (theory of the whole
thing) is quite philosophical in nature.
answers4: Philosophy answers all the fundamental questions - see Schopenhauer.
answers5: I agree if nothing else it's good to question the world
around you and how you live your life. It's part of what separates us
from machines that just do as they told (programmed) to do. People
should always want more. A good example of this is the books 1984 and
brave new world
answers6: I essentially agree. Philosophical ideas are tossed out,
and they undergo a form of testing in the arena of public discourse.
Some fall by the way (many...) and some seem to contribute to some
understanding of ourselves, which is what it's all about.
answers7: Nope!!