Most philosophies are flawed for sure, but you can still broaden your perspective of the world by researching philosophies, which I think can be pretty fun.

I'm planning to take a philosophy class next semester so that I can broaden my knowledge of them. :)

Can you name one philosophy, that isn't flawed?

what does it mean that a philosophy is flawed?

Confliction

confliction with what?

With reality.

philosophy holds true at different levels and to different standards to different people

i.e. it is flawed for some people, perfect for others, depends on what kind of person you are

ok so we have a definition of that(reality). So at least one philosophical system must be true then.

@sora i think you have a very misleading idea about what philosophy is.

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ya philosophy is the study, not really interpretation of the world around us but what i mean is many people think much differently so different "philosophies" as they're being described pertain to different people

I do the things that make me feel good and doesn't hurt others.

I don't have a single philosophy so much as I try to understand as many lenses as possible and then view issues through the lens that most appropriately matches reality.

I think I have a good grasp on
-The Marxist-Leninist and Marxist-inter sectional lenses
-The objectivist lens
-The Neocon/unilateralism lens
-Broadly "alt-right" lens.

Also, I crave more and more lenses through which to view the world, art, and media.

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what does it mean that a philosophy is flawed?

A philosophy that contradicts itself from its first presupposition.

in which order do you study rouge NK? from worst to best and then you have only gotten through the worst ones up till now?

loads of different philosophies are internally consistent so if that was the metric it's very easy to give an answer to one that is not flawed

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I'm a Christian. This means that I'm studying the bible in order to form my understanding of reality.

If you want to study philosophy from a Western focus then read the Bible, the Greeks, and of course the Western canon from the "medieval" to the "modern" period.

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@El-sin: What is your motivation for those actions? What you are describing fits into basically any ethical school.

E.g: If you try not to hurt others through your actions out of duty, then we are talking deontology, but it could also be hedonism, if you are merely trying to optimize pleasure and minimize pain.

what is a world view, and how is a philosophy contained whitin it? how do one asses depth and validity. how do you know that there is an objective truth and what do you even mean by objective. why is it certain that we can make a worldview of it and how can they correspond whit one another? also can you make one theory about the totality?

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A worldview is a complete picture of reality. For example the Christian worldview. It's more inclusive than just a philosophy because it also has a view of history and of science. Validity is easily determined, it just means something is internally consistent. Depth includes empirical accuracy but also good explanations of history and the intuitive factor - because the nature of truth is itself intuitive to some extent. It's very easy to show that there is an objective truth because if there weren't, there wouldn't even be a way to make universal truth claims without self-contradiction. A worldview is just the more or less accurate picture of reality. Any reality whether you're talking about a true or a false one has a corresponding worldview, a way to view it. And all worldviews make theories about the totality of reality. Christianity and Islam for example are theories about what everything is as a totality.

The problem with philosophy is that it is all theoretical and can never be proven. If it could, it would be science. You are literally just reading an opinion of someone and using that to justify everything. And if there truly was someone that was correct we wouldn't have philosophy in the first place and just follow that instead.

Of course, this is a gross simplification, if you want more you're gonna have to join me on twitch for that one :P but my point is philosophy should not actually be taken seriously outside if just learning about people's mindsets. If you truly wish to gain meaning, do what you believe in or probably go into some other field where you can actually prove things like chemistry or physics. But what do I know I merely do politics.

If you want to study philosophy from a Western focus

why on earth would you want to do that?