1. Philosophy forms the basis of critical thinking.

Although culture today is very different from

when Western philosophy 's founding figures made their mark, the problems that we face
today are just as daunting. Enter modern philosophy which places critical thinking and problem-
solving at the forefront to make sense of these weighty issues. Today, we lean heavily upon
science. And for good reason: Thanks to developments in science and technology, we are living
in a very different way from how without them we might. There's no doubt that technological
advancements are crucial to our survival as a species, from fridges for our food to aircraft for
flight.
2. Philosophers such as Parmenides are constantly searching for answers. Parmenides
concludes, coming into being and passing away are illusory, change is illusory: everything is one,
undivided, changeless and eternal. Whatever there is, whatever can be thought of, is for
Parmenides nothing other than Being. Being is one and indivisible: it has no beginning and no
end, and it is not subject to temporal change. When a man dies and become ashes, in
Heraclitus’ words, the death of man and the birth ash; but for Parmenides it is not the death or
birth of Being.
3. Logic is the science and art of reasoning well. Logic as a science seeks to discover rules of
reasoning; logic as an art seeks to apply those rules to rational discourse. Logic is one of the
seven liberal arts, which include the Trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. These arts are the
skills which are essential for a free person (liberalis, “worthy of a free person”) to take an active
part in daily life, for the benefit of others. Specifically, logic as an art seeks to apply the
principles of reasoning to analyze and create arguments, proofs, and other chains of reasoning
4. Offhand it would seem that only through removing man from his very roots as a discipline,
i.e. by the criticism of anthropology, could philosophy reach a genuinely scientific degree.
Philosophy arrives at the question of man on the one band too late, achieving a synthesis or a
generalization merely on the basis of some other field of specialization, and on the other hand
superfluously, because some other, more advanced discipline might have performed the
specific function.
5. For me, idea comes first because infinite concepts came from ideas. For example, think that
concept as a ship and ideas as the crew. Neither are at their best without the other. You want
your ship to have a purpose. Is it carrying something? Where is it going? What route will it
take? The ship's crew are doing all of that, they are fueling the ship, keeping it on course to
reach its final destination. Likewise, ideas are what makes a concept come true, they are the
people who are moving the concept forward. Without a ship, individual crew members are of
course valuable, they have skills that can be used elsewhere, just as some ideas can stand
alone. But on a ship is where a crew member works best and typically concepts are more
powerful when used within a bigger context.