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- smallLv 77 years ago
Forming any firm, permanent opinion about anything is unphilosophical......
I think an open mind is the very first precondition for being philosophical.
- namelessLv 77 years ago
Once you know what it is, you'll know what it is not; everything else!
Philosophy is 'original critical thought';
Critical Thinking
http://www.skepdic.com/ticriticalthinking.html
Bertrand Russell on Critical Thinking
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Educ/EducHare.htm
As opposed to the 'scholastic';
"..."philosophologists", a term coined by Robert Pirsig ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Lila") to denote people who study other people's philosophy but cannot do philosophy themselves. He also says that most people who consider themselves philosophers are actually philosophologists. The difference between a philosopher and a philosophologist is like the difference between an art and aesthetics; one does and the other studies what the other does and theorizes about it."
- Anonymous7 years ago
Homosexuals
- SubjectLv 57 years ago
All knowledge based on thought or logic is philosophical.
All knowledge based on faith or revelation is "unphilosophical".
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- 7 years ago
Definition: phil·o·soph·i·cal, filəˈsäfikəl/ [adjective]
1. Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge (epistemology), existence and reality (metaphysics), politics, and esthetics.
Anything that does not match that definition is technically not philosophical.
- 7 years ago
Science is objective and "how" things work. Things like law of gravitation, chemical collisions are just what they are.
Philosophy attempts to find what truth is. Its a way of explanation. A way of "why" things work. Philospohy is almost purely subjective and beliefs.
So, I would say, science.
- 7 years ago
Religion.
Philosophy is about asking questions.
Religion is about unchanging answers.