Abstract

There are many different kinds of questions. I have mentioned a few of them here- Philosophy: Aims, Methods, Rationale Paperback – 2018 by Ulrich de Balbian (Author) ISBN-10 : 1985719150 ISBN-13 : 978-1985719156 In this meta-philosophical study I commence with an investigation of Wisdom. I then continue with ane xploration of the institutionalization of the subject and the professionalization of those involved in it. Thien I show that philosophizing resembles and attempts to do theorizing. The 9 questions, etc of the Socratic Method and details of the Philosophical Toolkit occur throughout different stages of theorizing as one level and one dimension of it. Traditional philosophy is no longer viable, relevant and acceptable. It might be possible to continue doing philosophizing in traditional ways. It is possible to continue fabricating fictional realities in the manner of the Pre-Socratics, Spinoza, Leibniz, Husserl, Hegel, Plato, et al. It is possible to devise pictures of realities and depictions of human consciousness and cognition like Descartes or in the Kantian manner. One of the major issues with traditional philosophy is its lack of self-awareness, the absence of meta-cognition. This lack of meta-cognition of traditional philosophers leads to the creation of all sorts of questionable phenomena and fake problems. Traditional philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of sciences, religion, arts, etc are little more than the possibilities, limits and restrictions enabled and allowed by the philosopher's methodology, techniques and tools. It is most likely possible to envisage a project to devise a collection or synthesis of many alternative realities by means of the insights and theories of theoretical physics, mathematics, bio-chemistry, biology and other sciences, the depictions produced by the arts and pictures of realities presented by the humanities. If such a system of pictures of reality is philosophically relevant and meaningful is however another matter. It is possible to continue fabricating fictional realities in the manner of the Pre-Socratics, Spinoza, Leibniz, Husserl, Hegel, Plato, et al. It is possible to devise pictures of realities and depictions of human consciousness and cognition like Descartes or in the Kantian manner. Some of these questions, certain kinds of questions are relevant to philosophy, to the doing of philosophy or philosophizing. What are the aims of different kinds of questions? What are their objectives and purposes? How are their relevant to the doing of philosophy? How are they related to philosophizing? These are some of the topics that will be touched on, tacitly and explicitly, in this exploration. I travel through the exploration of concepts and their role in questions, how concepts can be viewed as interconnected and being interpreted as forming a system or set of ideas and being employed to devise a theory, good, bad or indifferent.