SP
For over a thousand years Christianity has replaced philosophy as the moral structure in the west.
Such an oversimplification isn't worth disputing.
Philosophers have been very active as critics of the religious ideology for a very long time.
Did science fared any better during that time?
Are you done proving God doesn't exist using SI definitions?
EB
Philosophy like Christianity is whatever you want it to mean/
Phil !01 circa 1970s for me.
Philos -Sophia Love of knowledge and wisdom. I can never get it straight is it etymology or entomology? One is about bugs or something...
In the time of the Greeks everything was philosophy. Morality, math, science. Look at Aristotle.
Instead of philosopher substitute an academic or intellectual and you'll get a better picture of what philosophy was as a generalization.
The Pythagoreans today would be probably called a cult.
The modern cliché is to say talking about things is philosophizing making one a philosopher.
If somebody tells me he or she is a scientist I'd ask what area is his or her specialty.
If yo say you are a philosopher it has no meaning unless you specify some area of 'knowledge and wisdom'. Articulating facts doesn't count.