Effective divisions within philosophy.

We have taken to considering philosophy in terms of schools or methods or particular questions. We have ethnicized it to some degree, opposing the analytic tradition to the Continental. We have established a sort of hierarchy of popular, lay speculation and philosophy proper, enforced by professional practitioners authorized by an archaic guild structure.

Let's forget some of this now, it is foolish in the sense that insular debates among the barely relevant become foolish.

Philosophy must be a practice devoted to the relationship between life and thought, and bridging those two realms by means of the creation of concepts. Philosophy must develop and refine methods for the cultivation of certain styles of living and thinking, informed by those concepts.

Finally, modern philosophy, in keeping with the dramatic insight that birthed and rebirthed it and rebiths it anew, must begin with a radical dividuation. We must learn to forget what we have been told and ordered, we must let out instructions for living and thinking collapse around and within us, so that we might become adequate to the task of creating and organizing ideas, relationships between things.

We must be ready and able to see the world in a new way if we are t practice this craft.

I would propose that the chief question of philosophy currently is as follows:

Are thinking and willing themselves adequately creative tasks to understand the world as we encounter it? Are they sufficient tools for the creation of new, relevant concepts? If not, what else must be offered?

I would propose that our chief problem is as follows, the reorganization of thought such that people can experience the world as a lived and dynamic thing that exceeds their analysis, yet feel an open reverence for that world.