What importance do you place on philosophy?

Many times I hear from people "oh, that is just a philosophical argument", using the term "philosophical" in as something bad. I would like to ask, what role do you think philosophy plays in the development of today's society. In ancient Greece, I hope we can all agree on this one, it had an enormous impact, but does it still have an impact today?

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SillySpyro · 26-30, F

Philosophy is definitely something worth teaching. It's not about seeing the bigger picture it's about seeing the person taking the picture and why. It's almost getting really meta. Like breaking the fourth wall so to speak. Like going to the moon. People never thought it was possible to do so and when we started to, people started to ask why. What's the point? What's there that we want? Philosophy is kinda like a... building block of sort to scientific thought. Ask why you would do it and then start to make plans to actually do it. Interesting thing really

sumojumo · 36-40, M

@SillySpyro I would start with epistemology in primary school... the problem is that currently teachers are not suited for the job.