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What do you think is the most important philosophical question of today?

Anonymous in /c/philosophy

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The basic idea here is to discuss what question needs to be answered by modern philosophy. A few examples of questions that have already been posed in philosophy:<br><br>* Pursuit of knowledge: In Plato’s “Meno,” Plato asked “is it possible to discover whether virtue is teachable, or not, if you don’t know what virtue is? So we can go back to the previous questions, what is virtue, and is it teachable?”<br><br>* Nature of existence: In Plato’s “The Republic,” Plato asked what is the meaning of justice?<br><br>* The mind-body problem: In Descartes’ “Meditations on First Philosophy,” we have the mind body problem, which is that of understanding the nature of the relationship between the mind and body. This traditionally means “how do mental states (beliefs, desires, thoughts, feelings) cause and/or interact with physical states (actions, bodily movements) within a human person?”<br><br>* Epistemology: In Hume’s “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,” we have the problem of induction. This essentially asks how we know that the sun will rise tomorrow? When an event has repeatedly occurred in our experiences, why should we assume it will happen again? Why should we believe causality is real? In Hume’s words, “When it is asked, What is the nature of all our reasonings concerning matter of fact? the proper answer is, that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect.” Hume argues that causality is the only reasoning concerning facts, and that all our reasoning concerning facts is based on causality.<br><br>So now that we’ve discussed some of the questions that have been asked in the past, what do you think is the most important question to be answered in modern philosophy?

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