What is the place of philosophy and studying philosophy in the

It's just a way for men to justify their own opinions by encapsulating them in serious-sounding jargon and gaining "legitimacy" by pursuing academic positions and publication.

I'd say it will always serve as battleground of competing social philosophies and worldviews, which structure how you conceive of yourself as an individual and how you relate to society. This certainly doesn't go away because of scientific progress, that's a very silly notion. You can either import a simplified worldview offered to you from some cultural source, or you can seriously consider it in the form of an ongoing 2600+ year old dialogue that examines all the enduring aspect of human thought. In one way or another, every ideology relates back to the common tradition of philosophy.

>>9666032
Illiterate cretin detected
>>9666019
Naive assumption
>>9666042
This is the basic premise. Nobody's telling you to read philosophy OP (It's quite the opposite nowadays), but if you have serious questions about things science can't directly answer then the considerations of some of the best thinkers in human history ought to have some merit. It's simple. You either research the issues addressed throughout time or keep posting low-grade memes, masturbating over self and edge closer and closer to becoming neurotic in a nihilistic frenzy.

>>9666184
I have a question and it's probably the fundamental one, why is there something instead of nothing at all.

>>9666236
Start with the presocratics.

ITT: Ignorants debate ignorants.

>>9667124
t. ignorant