Comment by tim333

I figure there are two sides to philosophy. There's the practical aspect of trying to figure things out, like what it matter made of - maybe it's earth, water, air, and fire as the ancient Greeks proposed? How could we tell - maybe an experiment? This stuff while philosophical leads on to knowledge a lot of the time but then it gets called science or whatever. Then there's studying what philosophers says and philosophers said about stuff which is mostly useless, like a critique of Hegel's discourse on the four elements or something.

I'm a fan of practical philosophical questions like how does quantum mechanics work or how can we improve human rights, and not into the philosophers talking about philosopers stuff.