What are the questions Philosophy cannot answer?

Answer 1

not many ...

Philosophy then is one the purest and at the same time one of the broadest of the intellectual disciplines. Its concerns are abstract, general, and fundamental. It has connections with all other subjects both because it is concerned with their foundational issues and because it is concerned with foundational issues that cut across all of them, and indeed with foundational issues with human life in general. While not an easy subject, it is both tremendously valuable and rewarding. It tends to attract students who cannot help asking themselves basic questions about things that most people take it that they understand without having given them any thought. If you study philosophy seriously for any length of time, it changes how you think about everything. The world grows both more complex and simpler.

The traditional divisions of philosophy are these: ethics, logic, epistemology (the theory of knowledge), metaphysics, and the history of philosophy. Ethics we have characterized above as the study, most generally, of what one ought to do. Logic is the study of valid argumentation, and so a methodological study. Epistemology is the study of knowledge and related matters. Metaphysics is a kind of catchall category for much of the rest of philosophy, but includes centrally the study of ontology, that is, of what things there are and their natures at the most general level, for example, events, objects, abstract and concrete, universal and particular, states of affairs, possibilia, and the like. It also includes the study of general notions such as those of identity, truth, causation, space and time, necessity and possibility, and various sub-disciplines such as the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. The history of philosophy bears a special relation to philosophy in that a proper and deep understanding of the history of discussion of philosophical problems is important for a proper understanding of their contemporary treatment. There are many more areas of philosophy, for example, the philosophy of science, aesthetics, social philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics. There are many interconnections between all of these areas as well, as the study of really fundamental questions in any area is apt raise questions in others. For example, just about every philosophical inquiry will at some point run up against fundamental questions in epistemology.

Answer 2

Philosophy answers no questions. It is merely opinionated. If one seeks answers within philosophy, it is then, up to them, to find the answer within someones opinionated words that will best suit their level of understanding. After all, not all answers in Ones opinions are the same, as we all see things in a different perspective.

So, can an opinion be an answer? Sure, if the respondent is answering a question and the questioner or readers, accepts their opinion as a good answer to the question. Is an opinion considered to be a definite answer? No. An opinion is based on the respondents personal belief, experience and/or what he/she has read, such as using statistics in their findings.

Now, the only question Philosophy cannot answer is the Philosopher's own question.

Answer 3

Philosophy cannot answer the question of who we are.

Answer 4

philosophy answers no questions. it merely defines a certain stand

Answer 5

Philosophy being knowledge, there are none.

Answer 6

philosophy cant answer any questions, it can merely provide POSSIBLE answers to questions...

and there's a possible answer to everything, isnt there?

Answer 7

Nothing is so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

- Cisero

Answer 8

Why?..And Why not?..What is the difference?