Faces of philosophy

From the NYT:

• Progress in philosophy consists on a clearer delineation of conceptual options . . . (a focus on questions).

•  Kant was right, big ideas without details are empty; details without big ideas are blind. 

• I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. 

• Self scrutiny of ideas. 

• Philosophy is or should be humbling, -- and is, for this, ennobling (nothing is immune for challenge).

• Philosophy is a conversation with other philosophers and all of the rest (Rorty). 

• The deconstruction of deconstruction to put something constructive in place. 

•  Philosophy is the battle between conflicting metaphors.