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Note how, in the whole discussion of what philosophy is in the attached pages, I quite ignore that, by my---own my—own understanding of the question by which it is oriented, philosophy has to include, in its purely formal aspect as analysis, not only transcendental metaphysics, but also ethics. .

For that matter, I quite ignore that, even on its metaphysical side, it has to include existentialist analysis as well as transcendental metaphysics sensu stricto.

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But philosophy is more than the purely formal analysis of meaning, even if such analysis includes providing a transcendental metaphysics. In its other main aspect, its existential aspect, philosophy has the task of critically interpreting and critically validating all the different answers to the existential question, implicit as well as explicit, so as to formulate its own critico-constructive answer to this question---which question—which it answers, however, only indirectly, at the secondary level of critical reflection and proper theory, and solely on the basis of common human experience and reflection.

Thus philosophy is indeed analysis, but analysis that as such includes metaphysics in the strict and proper sense of transcendental metaphysics. And beyond that, philosophy is existential reflection---criticoreflection—critico-constructive reflection on the truth about existence originally and universally presented in common human experience and reason and therefore also more or less adequately represented, implicitly if not explicitly, in all the forms of culture, both secular and religious.

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