Slaves To Philosophy

Some try in vain to "distinguish" philosophy from science or theology, as Stephen Hawking did in his book The Grand Design.  Here, he stupidly declared that philosophy is dead and that science has taken its place.  Philosophy is about the nature of reality, and scientific concepts and religions are by logical necessity, which is the true arbiter of all things, true or false, since they pertain to the nature of reality.  It is reason that governs all rather than God or the cosmos.  If anyone is not a rationalist, at best they are a passive fool neglecting what is self-evident and necessarily true, and at worst, they are an utter hypocrite.  Rationalism is inherently true since reason's falsity would still require its veracity.  Now, someone could reject reason without rejecting all forms of philosophy (as in, irrationalistic philosophy of one kind or another), but philosophy cannot be "rejected" without rejecting reason.

This irrational and therefore necessarily false philosophy is that philosophy is irrelevant or untrue, when there is no single philosophical concept to begin with (and thus some are true and some are false, independent of verifiability), and everything about reality, including every person's beliefs, is inherently philosophical in nature.  There is no exception for religions or scientific paradigms like those proposed by Hawking, as these are just philosophical ideas or systems with particular foundations or an emphasis on certain aspects of or ideas about reality.  All of them are true or false, possible or impossible, and verifiable or unverifiable in accordance with what is dictated by the necessary truths of logic, not customs, beliefs, or subjective preferences, emotional appeal, or persuasion.

We are one and all slaves to philosophy, and the very idea that this is not true contradicts itself, being a philosophical one.  It is just that being a slave to philosophy does not mean that the philosophy in question is true or even logically possible.  It also does not mean that this slavery is a state the person is aware of or intentionally celebrating.  Some go about their lives never beginning to intentionally comprehend logical necessity or anything more abstract than their immediate emotionalistic preference or lifestyle pragmatism.  Others might think themselves more in alignment with reality, as did Hawking by all appearances, despite holding to contradictions as the very core of their worldview.  Only logical necessity is true in itself, and thus only logical necessity could validly be the core of anyone's worldview--yet this transcends and undergirds any scientific or religious concept.

Only when someone refuses to submit to what is true independent of all other things (the laws of logic) would they ever even seriously entertain for more than a moment the idea that philosophy is wholly false or irrelevant to reality.  After all, it is reason's inherent truth, objective in every supreme sense, that makes contradictions impossible to begin with.  Everyone is a slave to philosophy of some kind.  Being a slave to rationalistic philosophy can only be brought about by choice since it involves the active, voluntary, thorough rejection of assumptions and a clinging to logical axioms.  Of course, then someone would not dare think that anything but reason could be the heart of reality and what all else depends upon.  As simple as it is, since there could be nothing more foundational than what cannot be false because then it would still be true, rationalism is too abstract for the petty minds of the masses to naturally seek out.

Logic, people.  It is very fucking helpful, and it is true in itself whether you like it or not.