The Problem of philosophy (abbreviated, somewhat recovered, version one) is the inability to critically analyze ones own ideas, sources, relations, presuppositions, goals, etc., no matter the orientation of the philosopher. This is precisely why philosophers are able to find so many holes in each others theories or systems and is also the reason why philosophy always seems to regress rather than to progress. However, it is precisely this activity that is the most fruitful despite that on the surface it seems interminable.
That said, I have now decided that THE problem of philosophy is thus: the human mind. This is not the mind-body problem but the problem of the mind 'in itself', the problem of understanding our own understanding and whether or not the way in which we understand 'the world' (presupposing that we have decided how it is that we do understand the world) is an appropriate way to try to understand the mind (that which is not tangible).
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