High analytical ability (IQ) combined with stupidity.

You have to be pretty stupid to turn all this intellectual power on itself, make it the goal of your life and never notice that it devours itself. The moment you turn it on something other than itself it becomes science, not philosophy.

Mathematics is a weird something standing between philosophy and science. It is not strictly science. It would have been indistinguishable from philosophy if it didn’t have a practical application in science. I guess you can call math “practical philosophy”, and mathematicians at least don’t pretend to try to figure out life, and even though their game of mind is purely theoretical, sometimes it finds inexplicable applications in physics decades after discovery.

Here’s a typical example of a philosophical statement which dazzles the naive with its fake profundity: “I think therefore I am”. Which basically means “I think therefore I exist”. Sounds ingenious, right? Wrong. It is the most stupid statement ever. Consider this:

What is “I” in this statement and does it exist? If we already postulate that “I” exists, then we don’t really need to notice that the poor thing can also think to prove its existence. Cause we kinda already decided it does (wink-wink). On the other hand, if it doesn’t exist, then how can it think?

“Wait”, I hear you say, “but I know I exist!”

Well, duh, but certainly not because of this “proof”.

Descartes would have been better off if he had sex with ladies more frequently rather than spend so much time on mental masturbation. But of course, he also was a distinguished mathematician, so something came out of it.

All philosophy, including moral philosophy, is fundamentally no different from this example. It’s basically intellect wrapped onto itself.