Professor Bill Vallicella puts it well:
Wilfrid Sellars once likened the philosopher’s touch to that of King Midas. Whatever the king touched, turned into gold; whatever the philosopher touches turns into a puzzle. The trouble with this comparison is that it suggests that philosophers create their difficulties. Not so: they discover them. The problems are in a certain sense ‘out there’ independent of our linguistic and conceptual operations. Pace Wittgenstein, they are not engendered by a “bewtchment of our understanding by language”… Pace Rorty, they do not arise as artifacts of arbitrarily adopted ways of talking.
Those who quip that philosophy has little, if any, relationship to the so-called “real world”, do not have to look very far to be disabused of that notion. But to do philosophy is in fact quite difficult. It requires that you put everything you believe up for scrutiny with no guarantee that, at the end of the day, things will make sense again.