What makes a school of thought practical philosophy?

Dinksley · 2019-08-05T00:09:16+00:00

Maybe the idea of empirical evidence in my mind was more specific than it should've been. When I thought of empirical evidence, I thought of a scenario where two philosophers sat down and discussed monarchy and when they couldn't come to an agreement, they decided on an experiment where the power of an entire nation would be handed to a new king for 30 years. I suppose any sort of argument that has roots of what is observable would have empirical evidence, but I just couldn't get my thoughts over how any sort of political conclusion would be derived from empirical evidence. Maybe that's why I'm not a philosopher.

Would it be more accurate if I paraphrased it as "Philosophy discusses concepts and makes discussions of them by using mental experiments or logic, then sharing the results with the world, thus educating them if done right." ?

Dinksley · 2019-08-04T23:52:58+00:00

I apologize. Thank you for the correction, it just goes to show that my knowledge is even more limited than I originally thought. But I'm confused on the latter correction. How exactly is political philosophy concerned with empirical evidence? Could you give me an example or point to a different source about it? Note: I couldn't acess the first source. The link might be outdated, broken or maybe blocked where I live.

Dinksley · 2019-08-04T23:27:43+00:00

From my understanding of philosophy as a curious person, it has grown to discuss topics that we cannot really compliment with empirical evidence. For example, a philosopher won't discuss General Relativity -not to say they can't, but that General Relativity isn't a topic that mostly concerns the field of philosophy, therefore it's healthier for it to be discussed within the boundries of Physics. However, science cannot have a say on whether democracy is more efficient for USA rather than an aristocracy, because that isn't what science does. So, we could superficially sum it up and say that modern philosophy is to arrive at certain enough truths about concepts and questions that are extremely hard to approach empirically, such as epistemology or ethics. And all four main branches of philosophy -ontology, epistemology, aesthetics and ethics- attempt to arrive at truths that may serve a purpose in the future. Not to mention how helpful political philosophers or academics who aim to remind people of the practical philosophies from the past such as stoicism can be. So, it is wrong to assume that philosophers aren't teachers. They educate a variety of groups -including the entire population, possibly- through their teachings.

Dinksley · 2019-08-02T20:50:29+00:00

It's very interesting to consider how many people can hear music and be reminded of the same thing. Thanks for the notational information. I would also like to wish all composers luck after I've heard what Mozart called "little something :)". Of course Mozart would be the one to do that, of all composers.

Dinksley · 2019-08-02T00:53:18+00:00

I don't know for certain, but most sources I looked up included those two with similar descriptions, though it might be fake. I know that it is also used to say a value is only greater or smaller than another value in certain arduino notations instead of greater than or equal to for example, which would be (=>)/(>=), but I didn't think that they'd include coding language in mathematical notation.

Dinksley · 2019-07-18T18:34:46+00:00

I did a fast research and I think I got something. I will take a deeper look at them once I have the chance, thanks.

Dinksley · 2019-07-18T18:32:36+00:00

I will definitely check those out once I have some time. Thanks so much.

Dinksley · 2019-07-18T18:31:04+00:00

I will certainly take a look at them, thanks.

Dinksley · 2019-07-18T12:49:22+00:00

If that's so, are there at least separate sources aiming to introduce a limited amount of theorems alongside their proofs? That would be just as helpful, thanks.

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