Someone asked here recently whether "philosophy is mostly specious rationalized

Someone asked here recently whether "philosophy is mostly specious rationalized

Someone asked here recently whether "philosophy is mostly specious rationalized intellectual imagination and raw speculation dressed in the guise of logical argument". My problem with philosophy is something like the opposite of this. I think philosophical questions, or at least most of those I've heard of, are in fact real and important questions. What I can't understand is why aren't many of them solved! Please don't say it's because philosophical questions are "very difficult": this sounds rather pretentious and seems to forget that many very difficult questions were solved in mathematics and in science. Take, for instance, the question whether morality is objective (or whether there are moral facts). I'm sure one needs to define carefully what "objective" or "facts" means, and even what one means by "morality", but when that is done, why on Earth can't you get to some consensus about this?!

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