A Meaningful Conversation allows both clarity & growth. When a conversation is full of meaning, it has a finite definition, good intellectual reasoning and clarity of purpose.
A meaningful conversation is between two or more people, where all parties share a common interest. It is the common interest, expressed with positive input from all parties, which promotes expansive growth.
When conversation is full of meaning, it is balanced and harmonious in the way that reveals a common truth. It develops understanding and promotes the growth of conscious-awareness. Meaning allows the true value of conversation to be experienced.
A meaningful conversation defines with clarity a Universal Perspective of Truth. When a perspective of reality is universally true in conversation, it resonates and is clearly perceived by all. It allows everyone present to bring their personal perspectives in to universal alignment.
Universal alignment is the one version of the truth, which requires an open mind to resonate in accord with other open minded people; to see the reason and the purpose of their meaningful conversation.
A Philosophical Debate is an intellectual contest. An intellectual contest has two points of view, which are contested by opposing sides in the debate.
A debate works on the principles of right & wrong. It contests that one perspective will be proved right and the other point of view be proved wrong. Many believe that success in a debate depends on the opposing point of view being proved wrong.
When two points of view are based on opposing perspectives, there is neither consensus nor agreement. With no agreement, there is no definite meaning and there is no defining purpose because the reason for the debate is to compete & win.
The paradox is that you can only win an argument by gaining an agreement and when there is agreement, there is no argument to win.
Philosophy was originally defined in meaningful conversation as the Wisdom of Love by those who Love Wisdom.
When wisdom is forsaken in a battle of intellectual wills, there is only rational logic objectified by a subjective perspective. With the absence of emotional intelligence, there is no love and in the absence of love, there can be no wisdom; only philosophical debate.
Philosophy today has become a sub-division of Science, which prefers intellectual reasoning to intuitive wisdom and rational logic to emotional intelligence. Whereas meaningful conversation has a clarity of definitive expansive purpose, philosophical debate descends into divisive argument in the absence of both love & wisdom.