By philosophy I meant the sort of thing typified by current anglophone philosophy.
You may note several posts ago that I noticed the word ‘philosophy’ was not useful and tried to substitute it with other, less loaded, terms in order to more effectively communicate my meaning. This is a specific useful technique with multiple subcomponents (noticing that it’s necessary, deciding how to separate the concepts, deciding how to communicate the separation), that I’ve gotten better at because of time spent here.
Yes, comparative perspectives is much more about claims and much less about holism than any individual perspective- but for a person, the point of comparing perspectives is to choose one whereas for a professional arguer the point of comparing perspectives is to be able to argue more winningly, and so the approaches and paths they take will look rather different.
Professionals are quite capable of passionately backing a particular view. If amateurs are uninterested in arguing—your claim, not mine—that means they are uninterested in truth seeking. People who adopt beliefs they can’t defend are adopting beliefs as clothing
You may note several posts ago that I noticed the word ‘philosophy’ was not useful and tried to substitute it with other, less loaded, terms in order to more effectively communicate my meaning. This is a specific useful technique with multiple subcomponents (noticing that it’s necessary, deciding how to separate the concepts, deciding how to communicate the separation), that I’ve gotten better at because of time spent here.
Yes, comparative perspectives is much more about claims and much less about holism than any individual perspective- but for a person, the point of comparing perspectives is to choose one whereas for a professional arguer the point of comparing perspectives is to be able to argue more winningly, and so the approaches and paths they take will look rather different.
Professionals are quite capable of passionately backing a particular view. If amateurs are uninterested in arguing—your claim, not mine—that means they are uninterested in truth seeking. People who adopt beliefs they can’t defend are adopting beliefs as clothing