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Originally Posted by nguirado
I was just saying that philosophy is describing ideal truths. If the world is only material (atheistic), then philosophy is irrelevant. Or, if the world is only material and one wants to know about morality or politics, study psychology or evolutionary biology, not philosophy.
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I think maybe you are operating with some unexplicated definitions - "philosophy", "truth" "morality" for example. If you define philosophy as dealing with "ideal" truths - by which I take you to mean non-material truths - then, by definition, any discourse which seeks to offer a materialist account of human being is not philosophy. That's just an inevitable consequence of your premises, doesn't make it true though.
But let me ask you a couple of questions - if there is some stuff in the universe other than material stuff, what is it, and how does it interact with the material stuff.