Is there anything right about this characterization of a philosophical problem:
a person torn because she doesn't know what to do about her marriage would not be
a philosophical problem in the sense that no philosopher or no moral theory could
tell the person what to do, in the sense of giving her the one correct moral answer;
but asking whether the personal has any reality, whether we can really speak of a
person making a responsible moral decision at all, that would be something philosophers
would try to prove against skeptical challenges. Is something like that what philosophy
is about?
Read another response by Nicholas D. Smith
Read another response about Philosophy