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What makes a good philosopher?

• Lack of Intuition

  HAHAHAHA!!!!!!

  Dude, you made a debate out of this! That's funny. I'm not sure why, but whatever.

  Yeah, I stand by my previous opinion. I think that a good philosopher combines freedom from intuition with creativity, and the capacity to understand some very strange stuff (I don't get a lot of it). But I think that the freedom from intuition is the most important.

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  • kkatie55
    July 21, 2005
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    a good philosopher

    philosophy is the study of people, like you,but maybe not.hehehe a person of great passion for society and its history of what worked and what didn't in the past to bring to attention of the present
  • Beena
    July 22, 2005
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    philosopher

    philosophy separated from intuition? It would be philosophy no more. Philosophy is the quest for knowledge to get to some truth. You can't get to the truth without intuition. So a good philosopher will always use his brain but follow his heart. A scientist need not do that, he just needs to be methodical and analytical and so does not need to be intuitive.
  • Chessmaster
    August 14, 2005
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    I disagree that you can't get to the truth without intuition. For instance, it's not difficult to prove that there is no rational reason to expect the sun to rise tomorrow, but anyone with intuition would surely reject that argument even though it happens to be quite solid. I for one have difficulty accepting it, because of my intuition. There is no reason why intuition is necessary to find truth; in fact, I see it as quite the opposite.
  • Xecanophim
    November 3, 2005
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    I think philosophy is the art of taking unanswerable questions and viewing them from every possible Perspective, and then to reduce the ideas down to one answer that best fits the morality or moral standards of the person answering the question.

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