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The Purpose of Philosophy is to Ask the Right Questions

“I’m not a philosophical megalomaniac,” says Slavoj Žižek. Philosophy is not here to provide all of the answers. What it can do however, which is more powerful, is ask the right questions. 
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“I’m not a philosophical megalomaniac,” says Slavoj Žižek in the video below. Philosophy is not here to provide all of the answers. What it can do however, which is more powerful, is ask the right questions. 

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