What Even Is Philosophy?

The importance of philosophy to the development of society and civilization as we know it is impossible to overstate. So why does philosophy often have the feel of an old forgotten relic, passed by by so many today? And how might we restore philosophy to its central position in the cultivation of progress and reason? Education might be a cliché answer to that question, but I do believe it is true. Philosophy is fundamentally the love of wisdom, but it manifests in different ways and through different points of view. Let me know what your own point of view on the subject is. Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature ⁠https://linktr.ee/tonytalksback ⁠ PODCAST Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHN4X7VvDAUa0cTbXzsme⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonytalksback⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.talks.back⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/tonytalksback⁠ Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/tonytalksback.bsky.social⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/TonyTalksBack⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonytalksback/⁠ Mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@tonytalksback⁠ Reddit: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/u/TonyTalksBackPodcast⁠ Also check out A Dose of Sanity Newsletter and Radio: YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@adoseofsanityradio⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3isuX30MShRM7KwLHL71qy⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/adoseofsanity⁠ Learn more about the topics discussed:Aristotle, The History of Animals:http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.4.iv.htmlNeil Degrasse Tyson's hot take on the subject of philosophy:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/neil-degrasse-tyson-and-the-value-of-philosophy_b_5330216Laozi's Dao De Jing:https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49965/49965-h/49965-h.htmConfucius and the Analects:http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/analects.htmlBackground music thanks to Anchor.