should philosophy even exist?

[Dontaskme]

Hell yeah. What do you want us to do? Fighting over ideas to see what is the truth.

Philosophy was invented so life could play this game ..... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ

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hihi, you beat me to it

[Dontaskme]

hihi, you beat me to it

Gosh you sound so familar

[Sculptor]

I think Osho really nailed it with Western philosophy:

In the West, the philosopher has become a totally different phenomenon. Due to the Greek influence, the philosopher lost his roots in existence and became more and more rational, became more and more speculative. And Western philosophy has grown out of the Greek experiment. Hence, Western philosophy has gone in almost the opposite direction from Sufism. It has become logic-chopping, great arguments about nothing, just hair-splitting.

And slowly, slowly Western philosophy has come to a dead end. Now it is nothing but linguistic analysis. It no longer thinks of great things, it is no longer concerned with God or truth or freedom or love, no, not at all. Its whole concern has become the meaning of words. When the Western philosopher thinks about God, he means that he will think about what the word God means. He is not concerned with the reality of God, he is concerned only with the word God – as if by analyzing the word fire you will come to know fire, or by analyzing the word bread your hunger will be satisfied. Western philosophy goes on thinking about the word – bread, God, love – and has completely forgotten that love is only a word, it is not the reality. It is only a symbol, it is a finger pointing to the moon.

Western philosophy goes on thinking about the finger – how long it is, how beautiful or not beautiful it is, black or white, and has completely forgotten that it simply points to the moon. You need not be concerned with the finger, you can forget about it. Look at the moon and forget the finger. But Western philosophy has become greatly skilled in thinking about the finger.

If you read the works of the greatest philosophers in the West – Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. Moore – you will be surprised: just linguistic analysis. The reality is no longer any concern of philosophy.

But nondualism doesn't have all the answers either, far from it. It's called the end of seeking for a reason, but I think it's also where "real" philosophy begins. Now we are properly equipped to try to address the most difficult questions in philosophy.

He's brain dead, much like yourself.