Question

Please describe your life philosophy, focused on your formative years.* (0/1600)

Answer 1

This question is a meta-philosophy question. It deals with, talks about or asks meta-or second order questions ABOUT philosophy, or how to deal with philosophical texts.

Reading different philosophical books or works require different approaches. First of all you would require some previous knowledge for certain kinds of texts for example logic, books on epistemology, ethics, and others. The reason this is: certain subjects such as logic and mathematics require accumulative knowledge. (Books on history for example do not require cumulative knowledge - you can read about any battle, WWII etc without previous knowledge as such texts deal with facts and information and not insights or understanding). Epistemology deals with many different subjects - so you require a general idea of what epistemology is about and then you will read texts dealing with specialized areas or subjects in the domain of Epistemology (ethics, ontology, aesthetics, etc). For a general introduction to a domain (eg epistemology) read Wikipedia. Their articles will also identify the major ‘areas’ or problems in epistemology.