Conclusion
In this chapter I have looked at the character of philosophy, as we have learned about it earlier in the book, and suggested some contrasts between it and traditional thought, religion, and the sciences.
But the problems we have discussed in this book are explored with all the resources of literate culture. Thus literature, too, examines moral and political ideas: it explores the nature of human experience in society, and sometimes—as in some science fiction—our understanding of the natural world. To claim that philosophy is important and enjoyable is not to say that we should not learn from and enjoy these other styles of thought, these other kinds of writing.The questions I have asked in this book are some of those that are important to contemporary philosophy. I have addressed them with some of the intellectual tools that philosophers now find useful. If you share our vision of a general and systematic understanding of the central problems of human life, they are questions you will want to ask also. And faced with any of these questions, or a new one, you will now be able to take the ideas and the techniques you have learned in this book and think it through for yourself.
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