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. Questions, connected to our views of ourselves, in our world, and how we came to be here, where things are headed, including us . . . is death terminus? Why, or why not, why so many disagreements, can we come to solid answers, and more. That is, big, hard worldview questions. 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
PS: IEP on fallacies, gives a useful supplement. SEP has a more focused article, highlighting 18 key fallacies, here.
