Exampleers in the face of a special situation: as one of the tasks to come up with the question itself
Student examinations|« Philosophy is the skill of asking the question, » says Frank Martela, a philosopher.
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In a student examination of philosophy, an example of a philosophical issue had to be invented together.
Philosopher Frank Martela considers the task good as it challenges you to think in a new way.
There is often no final answer to philosophical questions and are examined through analysis and reasoning.
Friday philosophical in a student examination The candidates were facing a special situation. One of the tasks was to ask the question, not just to answer them.
The first task included:
Give an example of a philosophical question. Justify what makes it a philosophical question, and ask a way that that question can be explored.
Philosopher Frank Martela According to the student examination, the task of the student exam is good. The aim of philosophy is to question and rethink the structures of thinking, he says.
« When you start challenging the truths given, at that point the questions become philosophical. »
The familiar question « What would we eat today? » No Be a philosophical question. “Why is one eating?” In turn it is.
Martela himself would respond to the task by asking what love, truth, or democracy means. They are the terms of him that are used carelessly in everyday life without more thinking.
Often there is no final answer to philosophical questions, in the features of a good answer is noted.
Martela describes the task as challenging because it is a matter of applied. There is not only one right answer to it, but there are many ways to answer the task. That's why it is also difficult to criticize the task, he believes.
“Philosophy is the skill of asking the question.”
In the position I also had to come up with a way to investigate the example issue. If the study is done through empirical, ie methods based on observations and measurement, there is more talk of, for example, natural sciences, Martela says.
The basic methods of philosophical research are analysis and reasoning, and the features of a good answer are stated. Thought tests, dilemma and paradoxes are also used as tools for research.
Research is often an argument, conceptual crystallization, or at least justified questioning of previous perceptions.
This spring, according to the Baccalaureate Board, 1,256 candidates had registered for the philosophy student exam.
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