Critical Thinking Vs Philosophy

Jason Nussbaum

Although some of the greatest philosophers that we are taught about lived centuries ago, philosophy, today, is still a very crucial and critical subject. Philosophy itself is both epistemology and axiology, as well as a fundamental key in discovering our purpose, worth, and values, as an individual, and as a whole society, through the use of inductive reasoning, critical thinking, and rational argumentation.

Although being similar in many aspects, such as the everlasting search for the truth, philosophy is vastly different from other fields like science or religion in a few distinct ways. Philosophy relies on the use of evidence, personal experiences, and heavy reasoning to get to its conclusions, as something like religion depends on personal faith, and spiritual revelations. Science, like philosophy, is based off evidence, however, science cannot be explained by personal experience alone. Like philosophy, you must base scientific conclusions off prior knowledge of the subject, as well as pre-established facts. The main difference, however, would be that science goes about

Many great ancient Greek philosophers, such as Socrates, and through his successor, Plato, believe in the concept of free will, and that every action was made by choice. Philosophers like Stoics and Aristotle were determinists. They believe that every action was already planned out, and no action was conceived by yourself, but that it was going to happen one way or another. Socrates is also well known for his use of the Socratic Method, which is a form of an argumentation between two individuals that stimulates critical thinking by asking questions, then asking questions about the answer to the initial