The fall of philosophy: From the down of civilization, philosophy was the first theoretical knowledge and embraced all field of human speculation, attempt to give answers to human problems. But with the advancement of time and learning, each questions concretely answered by philosophy separated into an independent discipline. To cite for instances; from the time of Euclid, mathematics developed into an independent discipline; from the time or Archimedes, mechanics pulled away from philosophy. As from the time of Newton and Galileo, physics become independent from philosophy. Chemistry separated from philosophy from the time of lavoisier. Biology become separated from philosophy from the time of Lamarck. With Auguste Comte and Freud, sociology and psychology respectivelly developed as an independent discipline. Moreover, from the timme of Adam Smith, economics emerged as a discipline separated from philosophy. In spite of the fact that all those and other disciplines apparently stand separately from philosophy, they all have philosophical origin.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:49:21 +0000
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