PHL100Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intellectual Virtue, Belp, Final Good
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On philosophy in general, or comparative: explain what makes a question philosophical. Identify any features that you regard as uniquely characteristic of philosophical questions. What makes a question philosophical: when it is dealing with an abstract idea, ex. non-empirical questions (not verifiable by observation or experience but rather by theory or by logic) A philosophical question is not to be answered with a definitive answer. It is that which leads us to understand things in a deeper manner but it is not the means by which we understand things. Once a question becomes scientific it ceases to be philosophical. In order for something to change it must stay the same. The idea that an object, even once it"s gone through a transformation, still remains that object to us shows there is a higher idea of what that object is. All apples are derived from the great apple in the sky .