Philosophical Chaos

I feel like philosophy is a total mess until we obtain an understanding of higher level points of understanding.

It’s good to know how pieces of a particular philosopher’s thoughts work, but they don’t seem to resonate unless we have a comprehension about the way he structures his thoughts and how they relate to one another.

I feel like the idea of argument, once you are able to determine the good argument from the bad immediately, will be the road to higher level understanding in philosophical thought.

In order to know a good argument from a bad one, you must be able to understand why an argument is good, and why it is bad. You must be able to see the points where an argument hinges, which facts are most integral to the argument…etc… Basically, to know an argument, is to know it’s structural form, and knowing which points are the most important to it’s existence.

If you understand how those most important points matter, and how they move, then you can control the argument. These points are like the joints of the arm, if you can control the joints, then you can control the arm.

This doesn’t just apply to arguments of course, but to every sort of practice in existence. There are aspects in Karate or in Economics or in Politics which play larger roles than others. Since there are a limited number of ways you can conduct these practices, undeniably the most important aspects will be the ones you want to focus on.

Of course, it doesn’t seem to be an easy task. After all, you must be able to differentiate what is important from what is non-important. And then differentiate what is most important from that which is slightly less important.

It’s not an easy task, but it may be my road to comprehending much more than I do now.

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