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helpmestartauniversity · 05-06-2008, 09:15 PM

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Questions like "Who am I" and "How do I find myself" don't come up in academic philosophy, at least not in any of the Western Anayltic philosophy courses I've ever taken or helped teach. Questions about finding oneself often arise in folks who have a philosophical bent (i.e. folks who are exceptionally smart, perceptive, and inquisitive), but aren't discussed in class. "What am I" gets a lot of burn in Metaphysics (particularly Philosophy of Mind and issues of Personal Identity), though.

Regarding logic, I guess I wasn't really aware that people didn't realize it was one of the 4 pillars of philosophy:

Metaphysics (What exists?)
Epistemology (What can we know, and how can we know it?)
Value Theory (Ethics, Social-Political Philosophy, Aesthetics)
Logic (rules of reason)

05-06-2008, 09:15 PM	#39 (permalink)
helpmestartauniversity Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 19	New Ager!! Questions like "Who am I" and "How do I find myself" don't come up in academic philosophy, at least not in any of the Western Anayltic philosophy courses I've ever taken or helped teach. Questions about finding oneself often arise in folks who have a philosophical bent (i.e. folks who are exceptionally smart, perceptive, and inquisitive), but aren't discussed in class. "What am I" gets a lot of burn in Metaphysics (particularly Philosophy of Mind and issues of Personal Identity), though. Regarding logic, I guess I wasn't really aware that people didn't realize it was one of the 4 pillars of philosophy: Metaphysics (What exists?) Epistemology (What can we know, and how can we know it?) Value Theory (Ethics, Social-Political Philosophy, Aesthetics) Logic (rules of reason)