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Philosophy 101

How to make a philosophy? I never understood philosophy.  Now I know why. 

Philosophers love thorny issues and problems.  These are problems with multiple interpretations, multiple answers, and multiple final resolutions.  These are problems that can be analyzed from political, social, humanistic, not to mention rigorous viewpoints. There are love, beauty, and art, all fully open and ripe for discourse.  Consider, for other examples,  ethics, morality, justice, and truth.  All have really no consensus or resolution, philosophically, though all have proponents from one particular attitude of approach. Is is the case that the philosophy of X must be treated from the viewpoint of Y? 

The more obscure the topic, the more philosophers love it.  It is grist for their mills of  consideration and contemplation for centuries if not millennia. Not to mention hundreds of papers.  Eventually, the masters arise from the rubble of consideration, positing seminal theories, writing seminar papers, gaining seminal notariety.  In the scientific method we have Bacon and Kuhn, both postulating theories that compel others to critique, to agree, or to refute.  In ethics, we look to Aristotle and Plato, and hundreds of distinguished scholars over merely 2500 years.  The beat goes on.  There will be no end, no answers, and no final conclusions that are not ultimately decided by verifiable facts.

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