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It would be interesting to learn what it means to you to do Philosophy.
To start off, I will share what it means to me. I learned it from a polymath genius, Robert S. Hartman. This explanation may seem controversial, but if you look at the big picture, and attempt to say what the articles in serious Philosophy journals – as well as in books that are widely-accepted as legitimate Philosophy – what these all have in common, I believe you will agree that Hartman’s description is accurate.
Philosophy is the continuous clarification and analysis of vague concepts.(*)
In contrast, science is the continuous clarification and analysis of exact concepts.
When successful, doing Philosophy results in sharpening-up those concepts, making them clearer, less ambiguous, and gets them ready to be handled by a science. It is a fact that Philosophy is the mother of new sciences.
{Science offers a framework, a frame-of-reference wherein each crucial term is related to others. And the relationship shows up distinctly. Science displays a structure.}
*) No matter what other activity takes place in Philsophy classrooms, such as showing movies, conversations and discussions, reading papers, etc., it all eventually clarifies concepts – or people leave the claas in a state of confusion. …with scattered minds, asking: “What was the point of it all?? It should make more sense!”
Yes, literally philosophy, from the Greek tongue, means Love of wisdom. But how is “wisdom” defined or measured? Such an exploration - groping as it may be - is doing the analysis of which my definition referred to earlier. My explanation is not original with me. It comes from Robert S. Hartman, in his book THE STRUCTURE OF VALUE (1967, Southern Illinois University Press.)