WELL: Jollyblogger:
"Socrates said: "The unexamined life is not worth living." Turns out, according to Paul Musgrave that "examining your life" is pretty much what the task of philosophy is all about."
Not academic philosophy (or at least not any academic philosophy I've encountered at one of the better universities for it). Even in my freedom and moral responsibility seminar, our arguments are more often about whether entailments are acceptable than the normative value of any set of claims.
As I discovered, though, if you really want to ask those questions, the best place to go is political theory.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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