• Agent Smith
    9.5k
    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: ?
    .
    .
    .
  • javi2541997
    5.8k
    Step 1: Epistemology
    Step 2: Logic
    Step 3: Metaphysics
    Step 4: Aesthetics.
    Step 5: Ethics.
  • ssu
    8.6k
    Algorithm: "Choose the field of Philosophy that can best answer the question you start with".
  • Angelo Cannata
    354
    1. Get some idea about what other philosophers thought before you, throughout the history of philosophy, including the present, including living philosophers
    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.
  • Hillary
    1.9k


    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
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    You completed the list then, mon ami! Merci beaucoup!

    contribute to the growth of humanity.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!

    :ok:

    Step 1: Epistemology
    Step 2: Logic
    Step 3: Metaphysics
    Step 4: Aesthetics.
    Step 5: Ethics.
    javi2541997

    I like how you put ethics last! :up:
  • ArmChairPhilosopher
    82

    1. Ask a question.
    2.
    Algorithm: "Choose the field of Philosophy that can best answer the question you start with".ssu
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    From my speculative cookbook:
    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 ...
    — A sketch of (an) apophatic metaphysics
    Re: [negative ontology^^ [n_axiology [n_epistemology]]]

    ^^a generalization of negative theology ...



    :fire: :nerd:
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    You da man 180 Proof

    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?
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    1. Ask a question.
    2.
    Algorithm: "Choose the field of Philosophy that can best answer the question you start with".
    — ssu
    ArmChairPhilosopher

    Most fascinating!
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    ↪180 Proof You da man 180 Proof

    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?
    Agent Smith
    Yeah, approximately. :wink:
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    Yeah, approximately180 Proof

    :grin: :up:
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