Philosophy means love of wisdom. It's just for fun, bro.

Do you have a question?
How will you go about answering this question?

Enter philosophy

>>1304563
It's to improve yer shit sarge!

Considering it's pretty fucking difficult to even define philosophy (considering the vast range of subjects it covers) it would be hard to give a single overarching point to it. Some would say it teaches you to live a happier life, others a more virtuous life, others to understand knowledge itself, still others to understand God, etc.

>>1304563
To trick people and troll society

Ishmael. The great ape. There is no point to philosophy and that is the greatness of it. Philosophy schools formed the earliest democracies. The point however would be the attunement of reason and judgement. It goes hand in hand with ethics and common sense. However common sense and common reasoning are not the same but some how are understood as being interchangeable.

>>1304563
1. To give spiritually barren people an answer to their own lives.
2. To give spiritually idle people something to do.
3. To give evil yet creative people a means to craft the future they want to see.

>>1306252
4. To give good and creative people the means to imagine the world they want to see and then hold their head and cry when they realize they are not evil enough to make it happen

>>1304563
The unexamined life is not worth living?

>>1304563
what's the point of anything

>>1304563
Your question is exactly why philosophy is needed.

Philosophy's point is to find out the point of xyz. That xyz can be any topic including itself.

>>1304563
because it really makes you think