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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 7 years ago

What is unphilosophical?

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    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Forming any firm, permanent opinion about anything is unphilosophical......

    I think an open mind is the very first precondition for being philosophical.

  • 7 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."

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Homosexuals

  • 7 years ago

    All knowledge based on thought or logic is philosophical.

    All knowledge based on faith or revelation is "unphilosophical".

  • 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

    Thoughtless

  • 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.

  • Religion.

    Philosophy is about asking questions.

    Religion is about unchanging answers.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Rigorous scientific study.

  • 7 years ago

    The love of materialism.

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