By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
Philosophy may be defined as critical appropriation of all the main types of self-understanding and life-praxis, emphatically including, although in no way exhausted by, our seU-understanding and life-praxis simply as human beings in the ultimate setting of our lives.
It is because philosophy emphatically includes critical appropriation of our self-understanding and life-praxis simply as human beings that it includes the central disciplines of transcendental metaphysics, broadly understood, and transcendental ethics-both of which are properly sciences, a1though philosophy itself is not science but wisdom. But it is because philosophy includes critical appropriation of self-understanding and life-praxis of all other main types as well that it also includes, although, again, it is emphatically not exhausted by, all the so-called peripheral "philosophy of ...ft disciplines (e.g., philosophy of re1igion, philosophy of law, and philosophy of science).
22 November 2008; rev. 1 July 2009