What is Philosophy? Part 2 (due March 1)

This is the second of the two short reflections you will do for the course, on "What is Philosophy?" Doing these will help you with part of the Philosophy in the World assignment, where you'll have to give one possible definition of philosophy.

Instructions

Now that we're about halfway through the course, provide a revised view of what you think philosophy is, based on what we're doing in the course or what we've read/watched in the course.

• Copy and paste your first answer to what is philosophy, under What is Philosophy? Part 1
  
• Then provide a revised view, being sure to do the following:
  • If you didn't provide a definition/explanation of philosophy or what you think philosophers do in the first assignment (there were multiple options there for what you could write about), then provide one here. 
  • If your view of philosophy from the first assignment has changed, explain how. If not, say that the first answer still holds for you.
  • Connect your revised (or not revised!) view of philosophy to one or more works we've read for the course. Discuss how one can see this view of philosophy in that work. Be as specific as you can here, including where in the work the philosopher does or says something that fits with your view (include page or section numbers as relevant, or quotes if there are no page or section numbers). 
  • Describe your view of philosophy in a way that attempts, as best you can, to separate it off from other kinds of topics or questions (e.g., try to make it not so broad that it could encompass science as well). This may be hard; do the best you can!
• Your revised view (not including the copy/paste of your answer to What is philosophy part 1, should be at least 200 words.  

Grading

This assignment counts for 1% of the philosophy in the world assignment(the overall assignment will be 10 points, with 8 of those being for the main philosophy in the world assignment due April 8, and 1 of those being for the What is philosophy part 1 assignment). This assignment says it doesn't count into the final grade but that's just because the points will be added into the main philosophy in the world assignment to make a total out of 10 there.

It will be marked as:

1 point: completed adequately

0.5 point: completed but doesn't follow instructions fully

0 points: not completed