[lit-ideas] Re: On Names and Respect
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:40:37 -0700
John McCreery wrote
That would be a sociological or anthropological answer to a
philosophical question.
What makes this a philosophical, as opposed to a sociological or
anthropological, question?
Philosophical problems aren't solved by empirical means, e.g., weighing,
measuring, performing an experiment, or by solving a mathematical
equation. There's no evidence when Heidegger (to go back to an earlier
discussion) said something like 'the tendency is to increasingly see the
world in terms of how we use it for our own purposes,' he had empirical
grounds for making what looks like an empirical generalization about
(our?) beliefs and practices; yet whether there is such a tendency or
not doesn't strike me as a philosophical question either.
What makes a problem or question a philosophical problem or question is
itself a philosophical question.
Robert Paul
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