What is philosophy? What does a philosopher really do? Questions
like these can be answered in a review of Philosophy Now. What can
possibly be answered.....questions which have them. And what is it
that philosophers study? Generally, most philosophers study questions in
which there is no rational or justifiable answer. And the type of articles in the
magazine are very interesting because they elighten the reader to question the
answers. Some of the articles in this issue are "Bakunin: Anarchist or
Antichrist?", "Practical Solipsism", "Introduction to Ontology", "Orwell and
Philosophy", some other brief articles, an Internet page, and even some
classifieds. The overall view of this magazine was very intellectual and
professional because it did not contain any advertising throughout the
magazine. The articles are more in the manner meant for either philosophers
or someone in school studying Philosophy, or even anyone interested in a
very different approach to society.
An idea in the article "Practical Solipsism" reads: "Solipsism - the
idea that only I exist and that you, and all other material things in the world
are mere figments of my imagination - is one of those peculiar notions that
make everybody realize just how barmy philosophers truly are." Philosophy
is often translated as the love of wisdom or the love of truth. One way to get
a vague idea as to what philosophy is about is to dissect the subject and
investigate its skeleton. there are many branches in philosophy. Metaphysics
is"(after-physics, after Aristotle's book of physics.)", and has questions about
the nature of time, categories of existence, including god. Epistemology asks
what is knowledge? what is the difference between knowledge, belief and
opinion? Can we really know anything? How could we know that we did?
Logic questions the truth and even now employs...