Philosophy and their philosophers.?

Question

Who are they really? Philosophers question things in life that are most likely never going to be proven, are they in denial? or are they just higher thinkers? What makes people become philosophers? Why do they do it?

Answer 1

If you address the question in a larger perspective and see beyond the nose, you will develop the instinct of a philosopher.

Answer 2

The best philosophy speaks directly to things that have already happened, in the fashion of a critique, but without baseless opinion. To do so, philosophy uses epistemology to prove or disprove the critique from the perspective of metaphysics, ethics, political science, aesthetics, or some branch of one of those. Sometimes it will address directly the epistemology that lies behind the idea being critqued.
The science of physics has its own philosophers, and they do critique things that may never be proven; but it is for the purpose of showing how or why it may be proved or disproved. "Common" philosophy that speaks to things which may never happen are not often purposeful except to fulfill the ego of the philosopher himself.

Answer 3

A philosopher is a person who woud rather debat a subject and come to no conclusion than to come to a conclusion without a debat. They do it because they are not sheep to be led by others.

Answer 4

Diogenes said "dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards"

Answer 5

philosophy and their philosophers , are just like PROPHETS and their QUOTATION. But , philosophers are much more better , because , them would not damn or forces others to follows them teached.

Answer 6

Ludwig Wittgenstein believed graduate students in philosophy should learn something useful, i.e., transfer to a real department, and counseled students to do so. He worked as a hospital orderly during WWI, inventing some useful instruments, wrote a children's dictionary and taught elementary school, built a small house for himself in a remote part of Norway, built a mansion for his sister, and suchlike, when he wasn't doing philosophy.

Gottlob Frege, who made the first major advances in logic since Aristotle (both he and Ludwig lived in the 20th century), found a major mistake in his system, and abandoned his effort.

Kurt Goedel, arguably the most profound logician of all time, proved that no logical system of any significant value was able to be consistent, regarding proving its basic assumptions. His favorite movie was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

Edmund Husserl, like Goedel a 20th century genius, claimed to be able to teach God-realization in the scientific method. He taught Pure Ego and Rays of Light illumining objects' true thingness.

A. N. Whitehead discovered general relativity with a different method than Einstein's, and his major student, Charles Hartshorne, proved "God is love," about 2,000 years after Saint John the Beloved.

When Wittgenstein was thinking about moving from engineering to philosophy, he asked Bertrand Russell if Bertie thought he was too idiotic to do philosophy. ("The rest is history.")

Perhaps the greatest philosophers before the 20th century were Plato, who said philosophy's highest goal was to realize God, Plotinus, who realized One Mind Soul, God, and Kant, who opined no one could realize God using regular 5-sense material sensing.

Soren Kierkegaard's awareness is most interesting, as he observed three stages in man's development: the aesthetic, or meeting needs in the now, e.g. water and food; this corresponds to Abraham Maslow's "deficit needs" overcoming; the "Ethical" or Maslow's self-actualization, where people find certain ideals and lessons true for them; and the "Religious or Spiritual," Maslow's "Z Theory" level of spiritual guidance/self-realization, where soulfield coherency intensifies the ethical ideals to a transcendent level, e.g. divine Love, Truth, and Being--Plotinus' One Mind Soul-individuation.

A lesser-read and more basic modern philosopher is O. M. Aivanhov, with e.g. "A Philosophy of Universality" and "Man, Master of His Destiny." "Climb the Highest Mountan," Mark Prophet, has some good perspectives on major philosophers, among its many topics, psychiatrist Olga Kharitidi expresses some philosophy in her "The Master of Lucid Dreams," and "Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton, gives her position on how we know what we know. More recent science has provided more perspective on how we know what we know, including Dr. William Tiller's "Psychoenergetic Science," http://www.tiller.org Lynne McTaggart's "The Field," and Dr. Elizabeth Mayer's "Extraordinary Knowing." "Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph.D., is a worthwhile personal philosophy as she carried to term her baby son Adam, and http://www.divinecosmos.com attempts a blending of science and divine metaphysics. "The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis, is a good philosophy in novella form.

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j.

Answer 7

in my views....
philosophers is one who thinks

if he thinks
he's a philosopher

I guess you can say everybody is one...

but what makes a philosopher a real or official philosopher is one who thinks continuously...atleast that's what I say

they are just thinkers...in my views

Answer 8

just read bearnt russell