In many ways I believe philosophy should have remained “the love of wisdom” - values can certainly be developed in philosophy and most people now believe that all philosophy is there for is to teach or help us to know how to act.
Religion is about worship - worship of what seems to be philosophy’s biggest question regarding religion. Science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of a deity. It seems philosophy has a much better chance of proving the existence of things we can not see . . .
Science to me a just a tool - much like a hammer - or a shovel. Science has no real idea on how we should live or what values are.
Spirituality which can easily be separated from Religion concerns itself with the human spirit or soul as opposed to the material or physical things in life.
The aspect that draws me to your latest post as opposed to the questions is the comment about science driving philosophy - I think this is possible in mainstream academia which in many respects should not even hold the title academia. As far as I am concerned however I plan to break away from the bounded thought modern life has instilled in me and create something new - something that is unified based on things as close to reality and truth as possible with the exception of art whose domain is creativity that is involved with imagination.
So at this moment in time the following represent the list of things that I value:
- Spirituality - not Religion.
- Philosophy - not just the academia kind either. Ethics being the most important to me.
- Art - I especially like story telling.
- Science - real science not watered down statistical garbage.
Regarding science - there should not be one method but rather an arsenal of good methods and I think in many ways there are. We will definitely have a few new methods on offer in the future.
If I were to create a new knowledge as mentioned above I would be tempted to give the branches of knowledge different names to distinguish them from some of the modern day labels we use - but it is what it is - it seems we can only but pick and choose from the limited methods, labels and choices available.
Occam’s razor - look at the empirical - see if something is just a trick or real. Oh wait that is how we do it. Seriously though that is where the more than ten types of logic come in useful.
But in saying what I have said I actually find your post interesting - I just do not think that science should be driving anything but itself and institutionalized religion seems to be losing its value in modern life. I would hate to see us lose philosophy and replace it with some “automatonic” existence. Rules as they say are made to be broken - this statement is useful when breaking a false rule to replace it with a true rule. I do get the feeling however that life only has substance when we include the many forms of art alongside the logical knowledge that we aquire.