Philosophical Algorithm
We're all familiar with cooking - you need a recipe, a recipe is simply an algorithm (an ordered sequence of activities that need to performed to achieve an end).
Philosophy (in no particular order)
1. Metaphysics
2. Aesthetics
3. Ethics
4. Epistemology
5. Logic
Exercise: Construct an algorithm for doing philosophy.
I'll get the ball rolling (based on my own limited understanding):
Step 1: Logic
Step 2: ?
Step 3: ?
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Philosophy (in no particular order)
1. Metaphysics
2. Aesthetics
3. Ethics
4. Epistemology
5. Logic
Exercise: Construct an algorithm for doing philosophy.
I'll get the ball rolling (based on my own limited understanding):
Step 1: Logic
Step 2: ?
Step 3: ?
.
.
.
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Step 2: Logic
Step 3: Metaphysics
Step 4: Aesthetics.
Step 5: Ethics.
2. Get a critical mentality: get aware of how philosophers have always been very critical about everything
3. Get awareness of yourself as a human, your uniqueness in the history of this world, get familiar with literature, art, sport, religions, life, news, history
4. Use your self awareness, together with all other knowledge that you have acquired, to criticise everything, including your own criticism, including the algorithms that you are using, consciously and unconsciously
5. Now you are, presumably, hopefully, in the ideal maturity to create your own philosophy and contribute to the growth of humanity.
The two and most important that are left out: Physica and Theologica. The order then is:
1). Theologica
2). Physica
3). Metatheologica
4). Metaphysica
5). Epistemologica
6). Logica-Mathematica
7). Aesthetica
8). Ethica
9). Politica
10)???ica
Quoting Angelo Cannata
:grin: What do you think I am? Socrates' avatar? You know what? I do feel like the Athenian gadfly, when he was about 2! :lol:
Nonetheless, good advice! Muchas gracias señor!
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Quoting javi2541997
I like how you put ethics last! :up:
1. Ask a question.
2.
Quoting ssu
[quote=A sketch of (an) apophatic metaphysics]1. negative ontology – understanding what reality is by negating (defining) what reality is not (i.e. necessarily excludes)
2. negative axiology – judging values (existential priorities) by negating disvalues:
(a) aesthetics ~indifference / waste
(b) ethics ~harm / injustice
(c) logic ~error / nonsense
3. negative epistemology – unlearning maladaptive practices (habitus) e.g. unknowing, agnotogies, denialism, magical thinking ...[/quote]
Re: [negative ontology^^ [n_axiology [n_epistemology]]]
^^a generalization of negative theology ...
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Would I be correct if I said that your philosophy is scientific to the degree it emphasizes (the avoidance of) falsehoods while trying its best to approximate truths?
Most fascinating!
Yeah, approximately. :wink:
:grin: :up: