More on this to come, but here's the germ for an interesting post:
Speaking of Aristotle,
"An aporetic philosopher is a philosopher who supposes that puzzle-stating and puzzle-solving form the heart of philosophical activity...detailed and diverse problems present themselves to a philosophical mind, and the philosopher's principle task, or perhaps his sole task, is to solve these problems - or to dissolve them."
-from Jonathan Barnes' article in The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle on "Life and Works", pg 23.
This is a non-systematic way of doing philosophy, and any expectation of theorizing or systematizing would be pointless. I'm not sure how much I agree with this; one of the central tenets of my study of religious ethics is that ethics is more than problems which need solutions, but instead is a way of living life which provides answers as they are needed. Yet it's an interesting model of philosophy.
As I said, more to come as I have a chance to think about this a bit more.
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