The Ur subject of philosophy is not the writing and reading of philosophy, but to exercise the mind in coming to grips with that which we have no conception of

The Ur subject of philosophy is not the writing and reading of philosophy, but to exercise the mind in coming to grips with that which we have no conception of yet. Language is it's medium, and the IO is those texts. However the nugget at the center is figuring out that magic blackbox that lets you take all the dead ends in those texts and divine a reasonable guiding principle or recognition of an end to the space of tread discourse. To that end, you have to approach philosophical reading with a degree of hypothetical detachment that not everyone is immediately comfortable with.