Psychology, sociology, anthropology, and archeology can give us insight into epistemology; various "soft" sciences dealing with comparative cultures can provide food of thought in ethics, and so on. History is, of course necessary to any understanding of philosophy: how it came about, what people did with it. ... Rather, philosophy should be integrated with the rest of the sciences through the method of rational judgment. Rather than sailing behind, or next to but away from, the rest of the sciences, philosophy should be the flagship of the group. ... Descartes was the first to bring phil...

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