What did you understand to be the purpose of philosophy and your role as a philosopher?

...The point of philosophy is not 'What is the structure of all?' but 'What are the concepts the scientist already has to presuppose in order to formulate the question?' It is simply asking about what is already there: what conceptual, and other, presuppositions already have to be there so that you can say what you are saying, so that you understand what you understand, so that you know that you are doing what you are doing.

Conversations with Žižek, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly