Difference between Philosophical/Non-Philosophical Topics.?

Question

Can someone describe the differences for me please? examples are always helpfull. :) Thanks

Difference between Philosophicaland a Non-Philosophical topic of discussion****

Answer 1

IT ALL DEPENDS UPON HOW YOU ARE LOOKING AT IT. FOR EXAMPLE SEX IS A PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECT BUT NOT SEX ORGY. SIMILARLY WAR CAN BE A PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECT AS LONG AS IT IS BEING FOUGHT FOR SAVING THE HUMAN VALUE BUT TERRORISM IS NOT A PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECT

Answer 2

I can give to two likely answers:

Nothing
or
Everything

Now, traditionally, philosophy is broken down into several sub-fields. In The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant lists logic, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and metaphysics as the major divisions of the field. Logic deals with the "proper" (typically systematic) method of thought for the parsing of speech. It tries to organize thoughts into categories to facilitate proper judgment amongst facts. Aesthetics is concerned primarily with questions of beauty and/or taste. It seeks to answer the question what is beauty. Ethics is concerned primarily with questions of value, morals, and morality. It typically asks questions such as: What ought I do? Why is a thing valuable/good? Politics asks questions pertaining to the community such as: What should we do? What is the best government? Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of the world. It is the study of being or reality. It addresses questions such as: What is the nature of reality? Is there a God? What is humankind's place in the universe?

Having said this we may conclude that philosophy generally answers questions of meaning via the most precise method possible as intuited by the philosopher (or the philosophic community). This definition is likely vacuous, but it is the best we can do in the hazy world of the philosophic quest.

I would typically accept as philosophic any question that does not relate to direct empirical fact, fact of opinion, and generally any mere fact. I could say that a question of: Is it good to ___? is considered a question of fact but sense that "fact" is typically subject to such a volume of discussion as to make it invulnerable to simple declaration. In addition, the question generally needs to maintain some sort of perceivable coherence to qualify as philosophic. What is left-mire's golf batter? is an incomprehensible compilation of words that maintains only the form of a question. It is not philosophic.

Answer 3

Being philisophical for me is thinking clearly about an important problem and then explaining your insight into the problem in such a way that the friend or listner sees the question in a new perspective, a new way of looking at it.
For example, in a practical way of thinking, what is the difference between the time after a person's death or before a persons life?
Does it not seem that we could accurately say that we are dead, in the every day sense of the word, before we are alive and after we are alive.
If so, then it follows that life and death are like a wave or waves moving by increments from one existence to another, from death to life to death to life and so on.
Or does the fact that the genitic code is passed from the living to the living making it a connected chain of events which is not broken by death, but is continued by life after life?
Was that philosophical in your way of thinking?

Answer 4

Philosophy is the love of knowledge. So non-philosophical topics would be those that involve or express a dislike of knowledge, whether active or passive, e.g.

- how to forget things
- how to deceive oneself or others
- avoiding thought
- ignoring reality

Philosophical topics would include the opposites of these, and many others involving the detailed branches of knowledge, including the nature of knowledge itself. Some common themes include:

- what is the best possible life?
- the nature of humanity / human society
- how to think and act effectively
- the nature of existence

It could easily be argued that many of the topics placed outside philosophy should fall within it's scope. Any field of human endeavor (scientific, religious, political, educational, ...) or inquiry certainly partakes of philosophy.

Answer 5

I begin with example. Philosophical is one we studied which has also variance or it has premises that could be duplicated with other example. While non philosophical is the Gospel or the Bible. It is not a philosophy because there's unconditional approach.

Answer 6

facts versus ones point of view/theories