The attitude of philosophy
Philosophy is a way of being in the world, or is a spontaneous and specifies the man lie about what happens around you. This attitude towards things has two essential characteristics; a questioning attitude and criticism. A questioning attitude because it has an unlimited questioning, has a need to understand and make more rational world. Man is not a passive spectator of what happens around you. He is faced with situations of violence, injustice, natural disasters and causing him admiration and amazement. It is with astonishment face things that man is restless, before events that has no explanation and immediately looks at them. So it has a questioning attitude born of capacity in espantarmos.
But every man is surprised, but we must distinguish the amazement of a common man of a philosopher. The common man only amazes with lofty and extraordinary phenomena that escape to your daily routine. The philosopher, the astonishment arises in any phenomenon, whether extraordinary or commonplace. The philosopher is possessed of a critical spirit, for he who thinks can not be more than an illusion, appearance and reality are different things. Hence the critical attitude of philosophy. Philosophy seeks to reflect and to doubt the reality distinguishes be of the opinion, the appearance and what things are. It has a nonconformist attitude marked by the desire to go further, of what we are told.
However philosophy as a critical attitude leads to reflection, will doubt. But no doubt in bad faith, but not to be deceived by appearances and to meet with prudence and safety. Hence Socrates, one of the leading philosophers of antiquity, takes a critical view of the appearances, "I know that I know nothing", upon learning that he knows nothing, seeks to know. It is important learned ignorance, take real ignorance of consciousness in order to achieve true knowledge .