Does anyone else feel like after 3,000 years, philosophy has gone absolutely nowhere?
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I’ve been a big fan of philosophy for a long time, but the more I get into it the more I really come to feel like philosophy hasn’t really made any progress in the last three thousand years. Like, we’re still debating Plato vs. Aristotle. We’re still asking if we can really know anything at all. Still asking what makes something morally good or bad. Like at what point do we start making some kind of progress? <br><br>I’m not trying to be critical. I love philosophy. But it’s frustrating to me because, after three thousand years, I would really expect some of these questions to just be answered by now, but they’re not. Does anyone else feel this way?<br><br>EDIT: I must say, I love the passion and the thoughtful responses. I think that after reading a good number of comments, I think I have come to a new perspective. I believe that the purpose of philosophy isn’t necessarily to arrive at “the answers” to these questions, or at least we can’t expect to get there any time soon. But that the process of discussion and debate, of seeking to improve our answers is itself what progress looks like. Philosophers don’t always arrive at the right conclusions, but they aren’t always wrong. They always push us in the right direction.
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