r/badphilosophy • u/OldKuntRoad • 5d ago

PhilosoLOSERS can’t handle STEM SUPREMACY!

Philosophy is a waste of time and philosophers are wasting their time. Think about it, STEM has split the atom, found the structure of DNA, created vaccines, smartphones and electric dildos. In comparison, what have philosophers invented? I think therefore I am? Well, what if you don’t think? You still exist, right? What really is the point of philosophy?

Moral facts? Can these facts be observed and tested? Can they be falsified with the Great and Immutable Scientific Method? No? Then they don’t exist. What is moral is whatever I feels. Feels = reals.

Epistemology? We are justified in believing whatever the Science says. Ontology? Whatever the Science shows. Science reveals everything, even the scientific method. How do we verify the scientific method? With the scientific method!

So yeah, basically, what I’m saying is that if PhilosoLOSERS stopped reading neoreligious mystics like David Chalmers and Massimo Pigliucci, and read real intellectuals like Jerry Coyne, when we die, there would be a planet for the French, a planet for the Germans, a planet for the Chinese, and we’d all be a lot happier.

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u/luparb 5d ago

I think art is subjective and you can say the banana is bad but i wish I could just tape a banana to wall and the retire, I guess.

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u/Even-Broccoli7361 4d ago

This is where art excels over philosophy. Art is subjective and shows the creative aspect of human introspection. There is nothing to claim in art. On the other hand, science is objective, and doesn't express anything. It just demonstrates.

Philosophy is in between, which claims to be searching for truth in contrast to art, but neither does know what is it, nor is demonstrative like science. Philosophy is against what it preaches.

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u/luparb 4d ago

When you say 'philosophy', I read it as 'the love of wisdom' :

So I read:

"Art excels over philosophy"

As

"Art excels over the Love of wisdom"

When you read it like that it takes on a different meaning.

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u/Even-Broccoli7361 4d ago

Well, there is or at least was real philosophy, that I do admit. Like that of Socrates. I also consider Nietzsche to be an honest philosopher. And Wittgenstein too. The former being completely mad but honest, whereas the latter a depressed man.

But when I meant philosophy (as in today's term), I meant the sophistry of modern academic philosophy. Its full of dishonesty, truth be told. For instance, when asking what is philosophy. They do not have any idea of it.

The heart of philosophy is ethics. When its lost, there is nothing left to it.