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Arts & Humanities > Schools of Thought Philosophy's search for wisdom: Open to all rational thinkers

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Although philosophy and philosophical thinking are often caricatured in various ways (one thinks of someone navel-gazing, or a bumbling professor spouting off complicated gobbledygook), genuine philosophizing is a deeply personal, rational investigation into the reasons for one's beliefs. Philosophers since the time of Socrates have understood philosophizing to be a form of self-examination in which one explores (usually in conversation with other people) what reasons one has for believing what one does, and whether those reasons are good reasons. Understood in this way, philosophy is abso...

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