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This document is an introduction to a book titled "Experience and Its Modes" by Michael Oakeshott. It discusses common misconceptions about the nature and purpose of philosophy. It argues that philosophy is not a gospel that provides guidance on how to live, nor is it a pursuit of universal knowledge for its own sake. True philosophy does not accept other fields like science as a fixed "datum." The introduction aims to define philosophical experience as experience without presuppositions or limitations, and

Author

Tiago Avila

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EN