Hi All:) Do philosophers ask questions to seek an answer.. or to make others seek their own questions?:)?

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Answer 1

For both reasons, and more. Philosophers ask questions so as to: -

1.get answers
2.criticize the answers and so work towards the best possible answer
3. get criticisms of the questions (questions can be criticized because they all make assumptions, and those assumptions can be criticized)
4. develop the tools needed to arrive at the best answers - tools such as analysis (clarification of ideas), the art of reasoning, and synopsis (making answers complete but also as simple as possible)
5. stimulate thought so as to discover important questions.

Some people fault philosophy for failing to provide clear-cut and final answers. Such people fail to recognize that philosophy does not pursue goals, it pursues ideals. The difference is that goals can be reached but ideals can only be optimized. There are no right or wrong answers to philosophical questions, there are only better or worse ones.

Answer 2

that's trick in philosophy. No answer is complete. It always swings more questions than it answers. So a question in philosopher's world is an endless discovery which enlightens those in the path by way of question-answer paradigm. Needless to say that for one to appreciate answer, one should appreciate the question first. So many times a question starts thinking process in few and at the same time answers to those questions starts the thinking process.

Nonetheless, one of the things that said is very true. No answer is fit for all. The best that a question and respective answers do is to awaken the seeker inside us and force us to investigate the relevance of that question for self and when that happens, there are more questions that we get in out mind that may or may not be related to original intention of the person who asked the question.

Answer 3

I don't think actual paid philosophers give 1/2 a crap if anybody outside an academic setting cares about the question they raise. They're really just talking among professionals, regarding texts of dead professionals. The dialogue is limited to like a few thousand people, if that.

Answer 4

I guess philosiphical questions do not have straight forward answers and they can be answered in may different ways. I ask philosphical questions to explore all the ways that a question can be answered.

And interestingly they lead to other questions and other answers.
I guess if you keep asking we will cover up all the questions there are to ask.

And all the answers become our core knowledge and technology.

Enjoy

Answer 5

To make others seek their own answer's. But, I do believe they seek answer's, to see how everyone answer's.

Answer 6

They don't seek questions or answers at all, because they're philosophers. they only ponder

Answer 7

Very philisophical of you.

Answer 8

They ask questions in order to figure out what the essential question is that we all need to ask and answer for ourselves.

Answer 9

They ask questions to make people think.

Answer 10

Both.