Method, Reflection, Practice

While Philosophical writing can be either Descriptive or Prescriptive, as has been previously discussed, neither is a distinctively Philosophical mode of discourse. Rather, specific to Philosophy since Socrates is Reflection, expressed in a Reflective Method, which in the Modern era is typically formulated as the grounding of a system in some experiential component, the function of which is often obscured by academic compartmentalization that abstracts it from the rest of the system. Now, in most cases, the object of Reflection is some Mental element, e. g. a thought, a sense-datum, etc., so, neglected by the tradition, the academic focus of which is usually 'Epistemology, is the possibility of a Practical Reflection, i. e. in which the foundational element is some physiological activity, e. g. writing. Accordingly, a Practical Reflective Method seems suitable for Marxism, or at least more so than the unreflective, detached observation that constitutes the "Materialist Method" in the German Ideology.