Okay, now for one of the most fun philosophical questions that I have personally come across. There is only one answer that comes anywhere close to being correct, so take your time.
And folks, if you absolutely know the answer please hold off and let others have fun with this one for a while.
This is a lateral thinking exercise. These problems always have more than one possible solution, but only one intended solution. So it’s always a game of guessing the intended solution, usually via clues embedded in the prompt. In this case, there is very little to work with: “Where are you?” Or maybe I am missing the clues… As a “philosophical” question, I suppose the answer is going to be more obtuse than “earth/the universe” or “city/state/nation x.”
My first temptation was to merely state, “Over the top”.
But seeing that there is supposed to be “a right answer”, I am more inclined to respond with; “At a place where I can clearly see that anyone posing that there is ‘a right answer’ has no business asking this question.”
Tip: Any location will do for starters (exact street addresses, etc. are not necessary.) Also folks, there are no winners and losers here, this is strictly a Fun With Philosophy kind of thing.
I really want to deconstruct the question instead of answering it… You can probably guess why, what with your (still to be revealed) philosophical intuition.
Where am I? And it’s a philosophical softball?
In the fraying ends of Christian Europe and the sordid beginings of the world of Big Brother, on the more cultured side of the English American sector.
If ‘I’ am the ‘I’ that sets me apart from anyone else, ‘I’ am within myself. But I am also outside myself and within the people who ‘know’ me. So I guess I ‘am’ both within and with out my self.
Oh Lord, if I’m without my ‘self,’ have I lost my shadow? Where’s Wendy to sew it back on?
It’s actually best to go with a physical location.
This word game can certainly get to an amazing point, but it’s really best to forget your a high highfalutin philosopher for a moment, and just play it straight, at least in the beginning.
I played this game with a bunch of 7 year olds once, and frankly they blew me away; all with 100% super-simple responses.