Welcome to episode 13 of The Better Self Show! Today we are going to talk about Philosophy vs Science and how to apply these topics into daily life.

First I want to be clear with you. The title of the episode may be a bit of a clickbait because it is not about the long time debate of philosophy vs science but more about what we can learn and how these topics affect us into daily life.

Philosophy definition In order to understand this episode you may want a refresh on the definition of philosophy. The word comes from the greek, philo which means love and sophia which means wisdom. So philosophy can be defined by the love for knowledge. And you may guess by now that in some way or another we all love knowledge! So in essence are we all philosophers? Maybe we can talk about this in another episode if you wish, just contact me if you would like to learn more about it.

But we are not here to talk about what does philosophy, science or mathematics mean... Or if philosophy came before science and all that stuff...

I want to bring you a reflection on the struggle that we live everyday between the philosophical part of life and the scientific one.

Philosophy wants to question and answer long time thoughts that concern to all beings like what is the meaning of life, does God exist, or what is the purpose of life.

On the other hand, science can prove with data, facts and statistics that can be 'certain' about different life situations specially related to the physical world.

The need for 'real' facts or truths I believe that nowadays in society you may often find yourself looking for real facts, or absolute truths about life, and that is great! But don't forget about the free thinking and questioning that philosophy allow us to do even questioning things that have been 'proven' scientifically.

From the previous episode, thanks to the power of imagination we saw how things can be 'real' for our bodies even if they are not scientifically proven or are not present in the physical world.

When talking about life there are many things that are abstract and hard to prove... how can you prove life? imagination? feelings? life purpose? Relations?

For some strange reason I feel that there is a need in life to have certainties about the world. And not just certainties but the truth about life. We want facts and we want the truth! And my friend... the truth is a topic that has been studied for a long time in philosophy and I believe it is quite difficult to get universal truths in life.

You can say that there are absolute truths in life. In my experience, most of them come from mathematics and even science. 1+1=2 may be truth in all places of earth... or the sum of the angles of a triangle is always 180º.

But the truth within ourselves is a little harder to find.

Freedom of speech and Galileo Galilei There is a very famous philosopher that you may know if you ever heard about utilitarianism or utilitarian