Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

W. Norris Clarke
Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine...
Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine...
Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine...
Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine...
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Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole. In this quote, Plato explains what philosophy is and why philosophers do what they do. He says that philosophy is the earnest attempt to illuminate our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

Source: The One And The Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics

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