The abstraction/reflexivity sequence can grow from any materials on which intellectuals focus attention. Philosophy has diverse starting points: issues of ritual propriety in ancient China, cosmological myths in India and Greece, theological disputes in early Islam. Philosophical abstraction shifts attention from the original questions and transform them into other matters. Higher or "pure" philosophy emerges as a focus on abstraction and reflexivity in their own right. Techniques arising as tools ancillary to disputes become ends in themselves. Sub-topics become specialized branches of attention.
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