Philosophy (= "love of wisdom") is the department of study where we put hard, fundamental questions; hard, as there are no easy answers -- every suggested answer bristles with difficulties. Comparative difficulties -- more explicitly descriptive, so preferable to "theoretical virtues" -- allows us to address such views in a balanced way: factual adequacy, coherence, explanatory balance -- simple but not simplistic, rather than ad hoc. This short primer serves as an outline of that approach:
Philosophy -- the method of... by Gemof Thekairosinitiative
This will help us to sort out the many thorny challenges we face. END
