Who is not a philosopher? if so why?
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That's a difficult question. Many people wold be presented with philosophical questions in their lives - would they be philosophers for attempting to answer them? I could also be argued that ONLY people interested in answering philosophical questions are philosophers.\nIf you're asking for specific people, I can't really help. Really, you could point at anyone.
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Present. I believe you have just described every pragmatist ever born. they are cynical in there aapproach to solutions and yet optomistic that a solution does in fact exist to all problems. That is is just how they avoid making mistakes and increase their efficiency.
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Personally speaking for myself, I would say no, it does not.  I like philosophy cuz it helps me be critical of religious teachings, and not to take belief / philosphical systems blindly.  It helps me be realistic, more self-aware of what I am believing, and whether what I believe helps me be a better person overall or if I am just believing cuz I want the "security". \n\nI do think it may close the doors on religion for some people....as philosophy requires a lot of critical thinking, analyzing....that does include analyzing religious texts in depth, and I know that does bother some religious people.
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No. I find their "concrete entities such as man and society" to be perhaps less concrete than the speculations they mention. Though I am sure there is a little bit of empiricist in any rational person.
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Yup! The person who don't understand why He/She exist
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I think that you are trying to describe the difference between an Atheist and a Humanist.\nA Humanist is so-called because they remove themselves from the whole religious debate - not out of lack of interest but because it doesn't feature as part of their philosophy. A Humanist doesn't define him/herself in terms of theism.
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to be honest, i don't think plato would be either...he would be a rationalist...he seemed to believe that we are born with knowledge residing in us and we discover it as we go along.
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The question is so subjective that it beggars belief. But on a more open basis, I would certainly nominate someone whose personality has totally defied logic in its manner of  sheer exuberance.\n\nMy personality of 2006, must go to the celebrated reclusive American writer and poet, Linda J Cirillo, author of the acclaimed poem,"The Dance".\n\nPoetry at its mesmerisingly best.
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Philosophy is a field of study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, in which people ask questions such as whether God exists, what is the nature of reality, whether knowledge is possible, and what makes actions right or wrong. The fundamental method of philosophy is the use of reasoning to evaluate arguments concerning these questions. However, the exact scope and methodology of philosophy is not rigid. What counts as philosophy is itself debated, and it varies across philosophical traditions.\n\nThe term philosophy comes from the Greek word "Φιλοσοφία" (philo-sophia), which means "love of wisdom" or less commonly "friend of wisdom". Many ancient Greek philosophers made the distinction between the desire for wisdom, as opposed to the desire for material things, vices, and the satisfaction of bodily desires. The definition of wisdom for many ancient Greeks would have been about virtue and the desire for knowledge and not false opinions. However, the term is notoriously difficult to define today (see definition of philosophy) because of the diverse range of ideas that have been labeled as philosophy. The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy defines it as the study of "the most fundamental and general concepts and principles involved in thought, action, and reality". The Penguin Encyclopedia says that philosophy differs from science in that philosophy's questions cannot be answered empirically, and from religion in that philosophy allows no place for faith or revelation. However, these points are called into question by the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, which states: "the late 20th-century... prefers to see philosophical reflection as continuous with the best practice of any field of intellectual enquiry." Indeed, many of the speculations of early philosophers in the field of natural philosophy eventually formed the basis for modern scientific explanations on a variety of subjects.\n\nInformally, a "philosophy" may refer to a general world view or to a specific ethic or belief. However, this notion of "a" philosophy implies that there can be more than one answer to any of the major questions that philosophers have historically desired to answer. Many past philosophers would have claimed that there is only the attempt to study one philosophy, not the improper study of many philosophies, just as there is only one proper study on the subject of chemistry or physics.
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Philosophers have been asking these questions for thousand of years. Modern science has not helped explain our beliefs, but you could be asking yourself, "if the soul can't be perceived, and no residence has been found, does it actually exist?". Really, a ghost in the machine? It just can't stand up to logic.
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His name is Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, not that thing that you wrote above. He's Sócrates.
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Personally I'm agnostic. But the category is religion not atheism. That's probably why.
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IF NOT HIM..WHO ELSE..?
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someone who is not christian
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Its pretty old, but its flawed. It is only a paradox if both exist.\n\nSince neither exists there is no paradox,  just a mental game for philosophers or something to get really worked up about when you are ratted in the pub.
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only if you're willing to take it seriously. A lot of people go into philosophy and only get a brief overview before casting a whole lot of judgement on it. They are appalled that philosophic thinking embraces questioning axioms. If you don't want to change the way you frame information, then don't study philosophy. If you want to learn how to analyze and understand things and frame and re-frame, study philosophy
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Hello brother (see my icon)!\n\nAgree for the most part.  Except for maybe the Dalai Lama.\n\nLaypeople especially.  The more that they seek the truth and comfort in the teachings (that should be dogma) the further they really are from knowing "god" or the source.\n\nKeep the unfaith brother!