Reminder that philosophy is religion/alchemy-tier trash and gives no knowledge. Its only value is historical.
>What is beautiful?
Let's make a scientific study of what people find beautiful. Next.
>What is moral?
Moralities are judged based on how well they facilitate personal and social success. This can be quantified via standard of living, income, rate of violence and criminality, etc.
>Isn't that consequentialism, a philosophical position?
Not any more than the quality of a machine designed for a certain task being deemed as a measure of its value for that task. Not philosophy.
Levi Perez
what makes you think you can judge a field when you have no understanding of it? imagine someone went "lol physics is fucking retarded how can light be a wave and a particle? make some sense you retards. lol religion/alchemy-tier trash!" or if someone said math was just glorified semantics that jumps through hoops via "lol infinity can be approached via limits guys!"? you think these are valid arguments? no because you know it's not that simple. philosophy is the same way. your quotes are literally plato-tier basic shit that has nothing to do with modern notions of what is taught. it's like criticizing euclids elements because it doesn't cover infinitesimals.
im not even a philosophyfag but i hate seeing faulty arguments. it triggers me.
Ayden Barnes
>"fake news" Stopped reading right there. I'm sick and tired of hearing these stupid fucking buzzwords.
Brayden Ward
Philosophy is so broad that any statements about it as a whole are meaningless, including yours.
Owen Cooper
You should read some actual contemporary philosophy. In the emerging field of cognitive science, philosophy plays a central role. The questions you are listing as prototypical philosophical questions are not in fact questions that anyone in that field researches.
Lucas Long
>Let's make a scientific study of what people find beautiful. What's so special about humans? Why is beauty only quantifiable by what humans find beautiful? >Moralities are judged based on how well they facilitate personal and social success. Why? Why can't we judge moralities based on other things? >This can be quantified via standard of living, income, rate of violence and criminality, etc. What if everything is not as objective as you assume it is?
Questions like this cannot be answered by science, only philosophy.
Thomas Walker
>Moralities are judged based on how well they facilitate personal and social success Well this is dead wrong. Morality is dictated by God, the ultimate arbiter of morality. Typical STEMfag just pulling definitions out of your ass like they're authoritative
Elijah Cooper
I used to be like you. Extremely arrogant and ignorant. The two usually go hand in hand.
Philosophy is rigorous as fuck. You can't say ANYTHING without it being challenged.
Asher Hall
Op is retarded, but so are you.
Camden Gutierrez
>pulling definitions out of your ass like they're authoritative >Morality is dictated by God, the ultimate arbiter of morality
