No, I don't think there is "more to philosophy". That's my point. That's like saying "there's more to banks than just places you put money, they also line the

No, I don't think there is "more to philosophy". That's my point. That's like saying "there's more to banks than just places you put money, they also line the edges of rivers!". The term "philosophy" is polysemous, and refers to distinct methodologies/areas. Continental philosophy has a more literary methodology and has very differnt concerns. On the whole, the methodological assumption behind the whole activity is that phenomenology is the horizon of study. Ie., it denies the causal origin of experience. You might call this a "radically specialized area of the general activity of PHILOSOPHY with peculiar methodology". Equally, that would apply to any discipline whatsoever. Equally, physics meets such criteria. In this sense then continental philosophy is not at all philosophy in the sense i mean. Nor is popular philosophy. Self-help books. "Metaphysics" as meant by crystal weilding "spirituals". All this is a reuse of the term. One may as well as a al-chemist for help with chemistry.