Is too much philosophy a bad thing?

Question

Do you think if you dwell excessively on questions which you'll never know the answer to, it can become unhealthy?

Answer 1

The human mind cannot avoid philosophy. It is set up to work on philosophical principles, although it took the pre-Socratics to wake up and realize that.

Your epistemological processes begin at the moment of birth, filling up that tabula rasa, identifying the existents it places there, and developing a method for "validating" the identity.

What are those existents? Metaphysical entities.

We are born philosophers, and to get away from it you must die.

Answer 2

not at all. its ur quest towards knowledge. health has no significant role once u r deeply involved in philosophy.

Answer 3

Too much debating and philosophising may take one away from reality, so a moderate approach is better. But as long as we keep ourselves active in  actioning the essential tasks in our day-to-day living, we are alright. Most people who are deeply philosophical have a healthy approach to life, are positive, humorous and down-to-earth--- so this  is certainly a good thing.

Answer 4

If you dwell too long on anything, it can become unhealthy.

Stretching yourself with philosophical pursuit is fine...if its something you really want to do. If you are trying it just to say you did, then you're on the wrong track.

Philosophy is nothing more, and certainly nothing less, than the seeking wisdom, through intellectual pursuit, and practicing moral self discipline. No intellectual pursuit will ever answer those questions which are not meant to be answered. To dwell on such, yes, is unhealthy. If it consumes your life to the point where you forget that life itself is there, waiting to be lived, then theres something wrong.

Answer 5

Too much of anything is bad...Philosophy not exempted!

Don't overbrood...Go out and play in-between!

That's the healthy mix...a recipe to keep body and mind in good shape.  The answers can wait...so can the questions...unless they pertain to the nitty-gritty of daily life...nothings going to change soon...least of all those philosophical ponderings.

Answer 6

na !u seem to be a crazy girl to me

whats there to dwell so much excissively Be light Take light Do light

or answer my question?

Accord to u whats right Science or Philosophy?

Answer 7

Man cannot rest until the questioning voices within his heart and mind and stilled and silenced.

Answer 8

Well, in my case it's not exactly working wonders for my hairline...I guess at the end of the day, you answer what you can, wait on what you can't, and face the struggles of the world.

At the end of the day, you've still got to survive.

Answer 9

I would say yes; all of us have unanswerable questions we tend to visit them every now and then without the need to dwell on them, the fore fathers of philosophy did not imprison themselves in such questions because there is more to life than a morbid question.

Answer 10

Despite vonhiggins' amusing penchant for egalitarianism, he is basically right.

Philosophy was invented by the Greeks, and engaging in it has been the rarefied privilege of but a tiny minority of our kind through the ages.  Their use of this invention is, by and large, not a bad thing.

When others (the bourgeois?) attempt to philosophize, their endeavors are but a pretentious shadow not worthy of the label.

Answer 11

I think a person can become obsessed, which is definately unhealthy. Also, many people have panic attacks when thinking about things such as death, life after death, outer space, ect.

Answer 12

Rumour has it that Yahoo plan to open an asylum - and only for those in the philosophy category! How about that for distinction? Now,the word 'distinction', if we assign to it not only the meaning generally intended, but, to be true to the word itself and to be truly comprehensive, also adduce any hint or notion of a negative aspect insofar as it elevates, or sets apart..........................never mind,don't bother about what follows, don't bother about even that.  I am not. I am only eager to secure myself a place in that "funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time...."

Answer 13

If you really believe you can never know the answer to a question, you're not likely to dwell on it.

Every question is jam packed with other questions. Don't ever let anyone convince you that a question that is important to you has no answer. BUT, at the same time, don't get tunnel vision and ignore the questions within your question.

Answer 14

Since philosophy is the most voluntary and humane of any known human activity, Yaoi-Rand is DEAD WRONG. Yes, birth and death are evident; only a few, however, have the discipline to LIVE as a philosopher. These few have voluntarily offered accounts of themselves by negation of status and position, concomitant to affirmation of A WAY OF LIFE. An example of this would be Nietzsche's serious references to Socrates; Nietzsche regarded Socrates as he would have regarded, face-to-face, any of his contemporaries.

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The role of accident in the pursuit of wisdom is sufficient reason to doubt bourgeois reliance on moderation. A reckless philosopher, no less, Thomas Hobbes, formulated the bourgeois as currently understood. How would a bourgeois understand Hobbes' recklessness? It's undoubted - just read the Wikipedia article! This settles the issue of moderation. Discovery is risky for the one taking risks. Not so for the healthy beneficiary of the discovery. The summit of the theoretical life is radically free, in other words, dangerous, unhealthy from the bourgeois perspective.