Some people say that Philosophy is very difficult to understand and there is no point in wasting time in reading Philosophy. –True enough, one need not read Philosophy or for that matter any other subject and still live on, but one should remember that if such a thing had happened then man would have still been in the caves and would not have been different from any other animal.
Some people think that Science is the greatest and there is no need for Philosophy at all. They should understand that Philosophy is the beginning of science and is also its ending.
When man does not know about something he speculates and this speculation is nothing but Philosophy. Then he experiments and that philosophical concept advances to become science.
Similarly when Science ends at a point man again speculates which again is Philosophy. This in turn gives rise to experimentation again that leads to further science and so on in an unending cycle.
Apart from this there are certain human values that are beyond Science. What is meant by Good, Bad, Beauty, Love, Justice, Morals etc. which cannot be dealt by Science and Philosophy comes to our rescue.
It so happens that in philosophy each philosopher considers his system to be the ultimate. But there comes another philosopher with his system and his own philosophy. No philosophy is ultimate and there is always room for development. This is the seed that germinates into science.
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