/lit/ - Literature

Is good philosophy the kind that has a nuanced view of life, as opposed to a flat, one-sided view?
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Every bad philosophy I've ever read had really faulty, one-sided truth claims that didn't account for how nuanced issues of life actually are. But the more comprehensive and full a philosophy was, I tended to agree with it more and see their reasoning.

Self-help books are guilty of this a lot, like, "if you just do x, all your problems will go away!" They don't explain their reasoning why doing x is the best choice, nor do they give a complete picture as to why.

Whereas a good philosophy would say, "Let us first establish why you would want to do x in the first place. Then let us also consider what other options there are besides doing x. After consideration of the other options, and seeing if x is the most superior, we can now go forward and assume that x is the best choice going forward, and etc."