2. What are the reasons that compel a person to engage in philosophical thinking?
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What are the reasons that compel a person to engage in philosophical thinking?
My guess would be the unhappiness with the daily common reality.
When any and all kinds of daily pleasures stopped being interesting and fulfilling, the person searches where to focus their attention.
And then, they may stumble into philosophy. They may start questionning their life and their reality. Like: Why was I even born on this Earth, in this galaxy, in this time, in this universe? Why not some other universe? Why not some other rules of physics? Or no physics at all? Just an another universe filled with blue bubbles that exchange two word signals between each other for eternity? Why not a square 6D planets floating randomly in a circular jars that would support life based on a totally different basic elements?
Philosophy does these things to people. In my opinion, mostly because they could not find the source of their happiness and fulfillment in they daily lifes anymore, or they experience the differently, maybe to the point that nothing real on this Earth is even remotely interesting anymore for them. They may simply find all the daily pleasures boring because they already experienced them all (or ruled out that the daily pleasures are infact fleeting and finite, hence they are unimportant) and are not anymore stimulated by daily real-external life.