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Originality of Philosophy

Originality of Philosophy

        Feb.25.1997

     What is philosophy?  What does a philosopher really do? Questions like
these can be answered in a review of Philosophy Now. What can possibly be
answered.....questions which have them. And what is it that
philosophers study? Generally, most philosophers study questions in which there
is no rational or justifiable answer.  And the type of articles in the magazine
are very interesting because they elighten the reader to question the answers.
Some of the articles in this issue are “Bakunin: Anarchist or Antichrist?”, “
Practical Solipsism”, “Introduction to Ontology”, “Orwell and Philosophy”, some
other brief articles, an Internet page, and even some classifieds.  The overall
view of this magazine was very intellectual and professional because it did not
contain any advertising throughout the magazine.  The articles are more in the
manner meant for either philosophers or someone in school studying Philosophy,
or even anyone interested in a very different approach to society.

     An idea in the article “Practical Solipsism” reads:  “Solipsism - the
idea that only I exist and that you, and all other material things in the world
are mere figments of my imagination - is one of those peculiar notions that make
everybody realize just how barmy philosophers truly are.” Philosophy is often
translated as the love of wisdom or the love of truth.  One way to get a vague
idea as to what philosophy is about is to dissect the subject and investigate
its skeleton. there are many branches in philosophy.  Metaphysics is”(after-
physics, after Aristotle's book of physics.)”, and has questions about the
nature of time, categories of existence, including god.  Epistemology asks what
is knowledge? what is the difference between knowledge, belief and opinion? Can
we really know anything?  How could we know that we did? Logic questions the
truth and even now employs a sort of algebra which is used to crunch logical
problems.  There is Philosophy of mind, which asks questions about the human
mind, how it thinks, and how is it related to the body.  Ethics is like how are
we living, what is good and bad, what is unethical, and what is happiness.
Aesthetics asks mostly about beauty and how to define it.  In particular though,
there is political philosophy, and it asks questions ...

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