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Originally Posted by wolf
4000 years or so ago, science and philosophy were the same thing.
Does the separation show that science lost it's soul, or philosophy divested itself of reason?
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Maybe it just means that they each found their niche.
Philosophy is subjective. Science is objective. Trying to explain scientific phenomena using philosophy isn't really workable. Likewise, science doesn't really have a place in debating subjective realities and changing beliefs in morality and such.
Some might say that philosophy has divested itself of reason--but that's assuming that an individual's subjective take on reality and the argument they put forth is based on reason to begin with, if, by reason, you mean logic rather than emotion or faith. Emotion and faith really don't have much of a place in science, since they would tend to get in the way of necessary objectivity.
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