Is there any philosophical question that you don't know the answer to?

[Swedishguy]

Well you and me follow the same school of thought I could almost change "everything" by "anything".

That kinda takes away the meaning of "religion".

 

[Perfection]

I think it would be fair to say there are no philosophical question that I don't have an opinion on

Don't have or wouldn't be able to come up with one. For example do you have an opinion on the Gettier Problem? Are you even aware of its existance?

 

[aneeshm]

What is the meaning of life?

Among many others .

Have you ever considered that there may not be one? That there may be no meaning to be found "out there"? That we are accidents? That we have to create meaning for ourselves?

 

[Perfection]

Well, if we create meaning then meaning would exist, I'd presume.

 

[aneeshm]

The real question is : why do we need any answers to philosophical questions?

Besides entertainment for the mind, is there any real purpose to philosophy?

It spawned mathematics and science. Along with linguistics and the concept of computation. And ethics. And democracy. And equal rights. And freedom. And.......


Do I really need to continue?

 

[aneeshm]

Well, if we create meaning then meaning would exist, I'd presume.

Well, true, but I think you got my point. It's two different senses, Perf.

In the first, we think that the "meaning of life" is a book waiting out there, somewhere, and if we find and read it, we'd be happy. The whole search is directed to finding everything outside, and looking for (and often, desperately seizing upon) anything that looks remotely like a book.

In the second case, we know that if we don't get off our ass and write it, a blank page will continue to stare at us for as long as we can stare at it.