What is a Work of Philosophy? (Re-edited January 2018)

1. By “philosophy” (aka “real philosophy”), I mean synoptic, systematic, rational reflection on the individual and collective human condition, and on the thoroughly nonideal natural and social world in which human and other conscious animals live, move, and have their being. 1.1 But the primary aim of real philosophy is to change one’s own life, … [continue reading]