I don’t know if this is a good answer to your last question, but you could ask what “philosophy” might look like today if Aristotle had never tutored the Emperor of the known world. I tend to think it wouldn’t exist—as an umbrella category—nor should it.
I see it more as the underlying theory of theory, an aspect of all things. I chose to study it with different intentions, but now I’m just capitalizing on my ability to understand theory to learn the theories important too as many different disciplines as possible. I read somehere that philosophers have a responsibility to learn as much science as they can if they want to be relevant. I’m trying.
I don’t know if this is a good answer to your last question, but you could ask what “philosophy” might look like today if Aristotle had never tutored the Emperor of the known world. I tend to think it wouldn’t exist—as an umbrella category—nor should it.
I see it more as the underlying theory of theory, an aspect of all things. I chose to study it with different intentions, but now I’m just capitalizing on my ability to understand theory to learn the theories important too as many different disciplines as possible. I read somehere that philosophers have a responsibility to learn as much science as they can if they want to be relevant. I’m trying.