Yes, I agree. Since philosophers are the ones discussing the concept of humanities in th3 first place. Would teachers fall into this category?
Because if we didn't use our brains to ponder the idea, we wouldnt be having this discussion. All of the above was my first thought, but then I thought about thought. Thought shaped us humans and makes us who we are. We defined ourselves. So really, there is no other answer since we created language, the words used to describe this thing called humanity. This experience.
Teachers... hm. I feel like that would be a stretch, but I could see reasoning to it.
But then again, couldn't we all sort of be called philosophers? We all have thought, which in turn leads to action when voiced. Or at the very least some discussion or awareness.
Someone would argue that what philosophers gave humanity might have been huge, the concept of us inventing things to progress humanity due to their intervention and giving us such a scope of thought may be redundant as some people would suggest many of the things we have created are simply a lower form of evolution and adaption which is natural and something human beings are destined to do.
So in other words, some people would suggest even something's as simple as the wheel, scribe/pencil and a bridge just as a natural part of human adaption but just not biological. Or even something as complex as using the fundamental force of nature electromagnetism or even electricity may have been used regardless of whether or not the philosophers which you speak so highly of even existed in the first place. I'm not suggesting, I, myself believe this, but others might. These people would go so far as to say that where it not for the nature of invention, conception and basic sciences people such as Socrates, Plato and Kant might not have even become philosophers in the first place so it makes the original contingency you have stated about philosophers being required for an inventors/scientists/engineers way of thinking in the first place. Using tools is just another part of us figuratively speaking, while we may have evolved to use a thumb naturally and biologically, someone might say a mobile phone is just a synthetic and imaginative technological invention and evolution of mankind.
Perhaps that thought is ridiculous, maybe we wont have even thought of building or creating something like a sewer or an aqueduct without a philosopher giving us that thought trail and idea of thinking and rationalization. Maybe we would still be in the dirt wondering how to use a pebble to kill our prey.
Or maybe we would have gotten to this point regardless, naturally and scientifically progressing as though it was evolution itself, that we were destined to create what we have by nature and without a pattern of thought. Who knows.
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I'm stuck between scientists and peace-makers.
But I think we need to give philosophers a bit more love here.
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Yes, I agree. Since philosophers are the ones discussing the concept of humanities in th3 first place. Would teachers fall into this category?
Because if we didn't use our brains to ponder the idea, we wouldnt be having this discussion. All of the above was my first thought, but then I thought about thought. Thought shaped us humans and makes us who we are. We defined ourselves. So really, there is no other answer since we created language, the words used to describe this thing called humanity. This experience.
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Teachers... hm. I feel like that would be a stretch, but I could see reasoning to it.
But then again, couldn't we all sort of be called philosophers? We all have thought, which in turn leads to action when voiced. Or at the very least some discussion or awareness.
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Exactly, just by being human we contribute to humanity. Some may see value in it, some may not. We just keep building on ideas.
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Agreed.
Someone would argue that what philosophers gave humanity might have been huge, the concept of us inventing things to progress humanity due to their intervention and giving us such a scope of thought may be redundant as some people would suggest many of the things we have created are simply a lower form of evolution and adaption which is natural and something human beings are destined to do.
So in other words, some people would suggest even something's as simple as the wheel, scribe/pencil and a bridge just as a natural part of human adaption but just not biological. Or even something as complex as using the fundamental force of nature electromagnetism or even electricity may have been used regardless of whether or not the philosophers which you speak so highly of even existed in the first place. I'm not suggesting, I, myself believe this, but others might. These people would go so far as to say that where it not for the nature of invention, conception and basic sciences people such as Socrates, Plato and Kant might not have even become philosophers in the first place so it makes the original contingency you have stated about philosophers being required for an inventors/scientists/engineers way of thinking in the first place. Using tools is just another part of us figuratively speaking, while we may have evolved to use a thumb naturally and biologically, someone might say a mobile phone is just a synthetic and imaginative technological invention and evolution of mankind.
Perhaps that thought is ridiculous, maybe we wont have even thought of building or creating something like a sewer or an aqueduct without a philosopher giving us that thought trail and idea of thinking and rationalization. Maybe we would still be in the dirt wondering how to use a pebble to kill our prey.
Or maybe we would have gotten to this point regardless, naturally and scientifically progressing as though it was evolution itself, that we were destined to create what we have by nature and without a pattern of thought. Who knows.