Part III : What is Philosophy ?

 

What kind of thought is Philosophy? 

Philosophy is a thought which is basic and exhaustive, explanatory and manufactured, down to earth and hypothetical, intelligent and experimental. Philosophy is a thought which is CRITICAL, i.e. 

i) it endeavors to censure presumptions, implications, word uses, convictions, and speculations. 

ii) it endeavors to grow clear definitions and plans of suggestions and to hold most extreme accuracy in articulation. 

iii) it holds the LOGICAL criteria of consistency and coherency to be significant consistency 

    1 - without logical inconsistency 

    2 - each term has univocal significance 

    3 - implications of terms don't fluctuate between entries coherency - that the terms and expressions have significance in connection to each other inside a solitary structure of thought. Terms are not absolutely reducible to others and not significant without reference to others. 

iv) it holds the EMPIRICAL criteria of sufficiency and appropriateness sufficiency that all that is given in encounter is represented inside an examination or clarification. appropriateness that there does not exist anything in the clarification that has no referent to some component in encounter. 

v) it is COMPREHENSIVE in endeavoring to address social and human issues intelligent request must come to tolerate on an extensive variety of undertakings with a basic eye that is unfaltering. 

As on issue leads into another, as reality as experienced is One, so too is considered such real human undertakings brilliant of the interconnection of issues and the basic solidarity. Such idea endeavors to indicate how the standards of clarification and essential classifications of any theoretical blueprint are pertinent all through the broadness and profundity of human experience. Such Philosophic idea at its most theoretical levels uncovers the fundamental bits of knowledge into each range of life. 

vi) Philosophic idea is SYNTHETIC seeing that it endeavors to relate and arrange all the information the sciences furnish with the qualities uncovered in the generation of the humanities. Such scholarly idea endeavors to build up a concordance of thoughts, qualities and refinements so as to answer principal addresses and to exhibit the most fundamentally defined calculated structure and world-see with which all consequent idea would work and help to assess and reformulate. 

vii) Philosophy is PRACTICAL, seeing that the technique for request can be put to utilize comprehending viable inquiries however considerably more so it is useful when the training one looks to enact is arrangement of issues that have come about because of the deficiencies of the viable presence of mind way to deal with life. It is at such circumstances that the most really down to earth thing to have is a hypothesis. Hypotheses help to dissect, clarify, and help with arranging. At such circumstances it winds up noticeably useful to address presumptions, convictions, current presuppositions, presence of mind, thoughts and the adequacy of current practices and it is just from the viewpoint of scholarly believed that such a request can occur. 

viii) Philosophic idea is SPECULATIVE in seeking after inquiries that don't bear specifically on functional issues AT FIRST SIGHT. It is theoretical in considering issues which just profoundly unique idea presents. It is theoretical in growing really presbyopic points of view and concerns. It is theoretical in considering extreme mystical issues, seeking after the most basic definition of standards held to represent thought and activity, and promoting scientific and sensible request in its endeavor to advance the advance of human idea and the change of the human condition.