Evernote：Why is philosophy important?

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Why is philosophy important?

Religion was very useful to politics. Politicians needed religion to guide people in every way of their life, while religion needed politicians to help them.

Suddenly things changed. People believe religion no more.

It brought in a period of  mind lost. Matalialism has come to replace religion. People had become short-sighted and eager to grab money.

I have a point here.

Its best to let the politicians become philosophers.  They can lead the way very well then.  And the second choice is to use philosophers, use their thoughts to lead the country.

In that case, a high imagination enabled country would become higher still.