Philosophy

Are there any topics that philosophy doesn't touch on?

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I'm sure that there are some topics that philosophy hasn't touched on. But I'm equally sure that there are no topics that philosophy couldn't touch on. I believe that, for any topic X, there is the philosophy of X. As Plato said, "The one who feels no distaste in sampling every study, and who attacks the task of learning gladly and cannot get enough of it, we shall justly pronounce the lover of wisdom, the philosopher." (Italics mine. Plato, Republic V,475c (trans. Paul Shorey, in Edith Hamilton & Huntington Cairns (eds.) (1961), The Collected Dialogues of Plato, including the Letters (Princeton: Princeton University Press): 575-844, quotation on p. 714.))

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