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The answer always comes back: 'The point of philosophy is to ask questions, not to give answers.' I can't help but think 'No.
The scholar Julia Annas has written that the Forms do not bring certainty but clarity as to the point of philosophy: "If Forms are seeing what is good, rather than reasoning which any smart person might do but still be bad, then belief in the Forms does not bring certainty but one sees the right point of philosophy".
The fact that you might give one set of answers rather than another to standard philosophical questions will say nothing about how you will behave when something other than a point of philosophy is in dispute.
It's interesting that Montaigne began his work by reminding us that the point of philosophy was to teach us how to die, but would later edge towards the notion and quality of living instead.
Perhaps not to exam level – indeed, part of the point of philosophy is that it makes exams somewhat redundant – but it should be taught to children each day, from an early age.
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Temporal logic is one of the natural meeting points of philosophy and computer science, whose separate issues and agendas come together here in a fertile interaction.
The very point of exact philosophy in a scientific spirit for many the very point of Vienna Circle philosophy itself seems threatened by such maneuvres.
Some might argue that making provocative claims is more or less the point of doing philosophy.
They do this as though it were simply a point of political philosophy.
But the whole point of this philosophy is that you defeat your opponents with superior self-discipline.
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