When people ask what I do, I explain that I find myself asking questions. Then – almost immediately after – obsessing over those questions until answers present themselves. For better or worse, that’s what it means to be a philosopher. Said differently, to be a philosopher is to be 1) a natural questioner and 2) steadfast – some may even say OCD – at figuring things out. Socrates called it “love of Wisdom.” Plantinga called it “thinking really hard about things.”
The Questions Philosophers Ask
When people ask what I do, I explain that I find myself asking questions. Then – almost immediately after – obsessing over those questions until answers present themselves. For better or worse, that’s what it means to be a philosopher. Said differently, to be a philosopher is to be 1) a natural questioner and 2) steadfast – some may even say OCD – at figuring things out. Socrates called it “love of Wisdom.” Plantinga called it “thinking really hard about things.”