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The philosophical enterprise: three disciplines Discipline of questioning “Cessation of questioning leads only to the stagnation and arresting of growth.” Discipline of liberation What are the consequence if a person engages in “blind adherence”, “unquestioning acceptance”, and “thoughtless conformity” in the presence of societal structures that close avenues to the truth? Discipline of personhood “One’s life is one’s life is one’s own unique creative project.” – S?ren Kierkegaard Reference: Cline, Austin. “Introduction to Philosophy: Defining, Studying, Doing Philosophy is?Important. Why Do Atheists Need Philosophy? We Need to Reason Well About Life Society.” Available at /od/aboutphilosoph1/a/philosophyintro.htm. Kavanaugh, John S.J.“The Philosophical Enterprise”. Why defining, studying, and doing philosophy is important? Department of Philosophy University of San Carlos P. Del Rosario St., Cebu City What is Philosophy?* The term philosophy comes from the Greek for “love of wisdom.” This gives us two important starting points: love (or passion) and wisdom (knowledge, understanding). The first part should be addressed right away because that is the aspect which is so often left behind in academic philosophy: love and passion. What is Wisdom?* Most of the time, it seems that philosophy is pursued without passion and without love, as if it were a technical subject like engineering or simple mathematics. Although there is certainly a role for dispassionate research, philosophy must ultimately derive from some passion for the ultimate goal — and this is where we come to the question of wisdom. One way to describe philosophy is “disciplined inquiry.” Despite the need for passion, that passion still needs to be disciplined, lest it get out of hand and lead us astray. The fact that philosophy is a type of inquiry, however, emphasizes the fact that it is about asking questions — questions which, in fact, may never actually get final answers. 2 Com