Filosofía, ¿para qué?
ISSN: 0188-6649, 2007-8498
Year of publication: 2020
Issue: 59
Pages: 429-442
Type: Article
More publications in: Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía
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Abstract
In this paper, I shall present a reasoned answer to the ques-tion about the usefulness of philosophy. I start by analyzing the meaning and intentionality of the question “philosophy: what for?” Next, I study the different meanings of the word “philos-ophy” in the context of that question (section two). In the third section, I present some examples of certain answers given to the question “philosophy: what for?” as they can be studied from a historical and anthropological perspective. Next, I take into ac-count certain outstanding philosophical systems to see how they have answered the question about the usefulness of philosophy (section four). Finally, I argue a reasoned answer to the question from the perspective of a Stoic, materialistic philosophy of the present (section five).