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WHY PHILOSOPHY IS THE BOSS

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I was relating with a friend on the difference between appearance & reality, on belief & knowledge when another friend, who obviously science walked in to disrupt our conversation. he asked, “what is it you are saying about Philosophy? What is Philosophy? Is it not that you people based your thinking and lives on the old theories and populations of ancient and medieval Philosophers, like Socrates and Aristotle?" this made me laugh.  I tried to ask him questions, instead of answering, he ran way. This is why I decided to give it back to him and some others in his shoe through this article, ‘WHY PHILOSOPHY IS THE BOSS’. To start with, the gauge of the value of philosophy as a world-view and methodology is the degree to which it is interconnected with life. This interconnection may be both direct and indirect, through the whole system of culture, science, art, morality, religion, law, and politics. As a special form of social consciousness, constantly interacti