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by fasterik
1097 days ago
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The "triumph of reason" as you describe it came from philosophy. It was the "natural philosophers" who developed the style of critical thinking and rationality that resulted in the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution. Of course, there is plenty of bad thinking that gets categorized under the name philosophy, but that doesn't mean that the whole enterprise is useless. Actually, I think philosophy should be taught more in schools. Learning to understand, evaluate, and critique complex arguments is just as important, if not more important, than learning to solve equations or do empirical science. |
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some philosophy (plato's dialogues) establish the underpinnings of reasoning and meaning - in that everything can be critiqued and debated.
and some other philosophy (spinoza's emmendations of the intellect / ethics) attempt an axiomatic approach..
however, much of philosophy/psychology is just a narrative with lot of words but little coherence.