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stick-upKid wrote:

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But seriously, Philosphy is like Latin -Makes you feel intelligent to speak it, but is ultimately pointless.

Thoth / Mezmerizing / The Sphinx: Prove me wrong.

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Well, let's start with this. "Philosophy" (from dictionary.com) is a "system of thought based on inquiry", an "investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods".

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From this, if we as Africans do not already have our own philosophy for which we approach different aspects of life, then we have no means for progress. You can not plan and theorize, if you do not at first have a philosophy for your thought process. We would have no physicists, chemists, geneticistsand so forth if not for the philosophy known as the scientific method. We would probably have no reliable automobiles, airplanes, computers (hardware & software), and the countless things you rely on that were engineered without an engineering philosophy typically encompassing 4 stages (specifications, requirements, design, & maintenance, which in themselves have a philosophy for implementation). Without a philosophy, a people cannot govern themselves in the way they feel things should work. Without a philosophy, you don't even possess the fundamentals to do any kind of reasoning within the realm of logic. Without philosophy, there can be no progress...