E. Saarinen's Conception of Philosophy

1. Philosophy should have personal relevance.
2. Philosophy is about the bigger picture.
3. Philosophy presents thought alternatives.
4. Philosophy is an art of concepts, spoken and written, and everyone is doing it.
5. Philosophy seeks out the meaningful, ponders the meaningful, crystallizes, asks and presents arguments and lines of thought regarding why maybe.
6. Philosophy is life-essential.
7. Philosophy is about the grand themes of life, the fundamentals, and about the everyday.