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Moon Dust
since 1999-06-11
Posts 2177Skelmersdale, UK |
Is there right and wrong in philosophy? Or is it just life experiance of one person? Or maybe a group of people with the same experience. What is your perception on philosophy? There are enough colours in the world, To paint your own dreams, You won't get them, Till you try. |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
Well at the risk of upsetting JP -- j/k man  I defer to Nietsche who said it as well as anyone: "Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been - namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir; also that the moral (or immoral) intentions in every philosophy constituted the real germ of life from which the whole plant had grown. " |
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Moon Dust
since 1999-06-11
Posts 2177Skelmersdale, UK |
Guess I'd better think about that one  There are enough colours in the world, To paint your own dreams, You won't get them, Till you try. |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA |
I think Nietzsche had a good starting point, just seems to me that it is a little narrow. Cetainly philosophy begins with the individual, but becomes so much more as the individual explores and applies processes of deep thought, logic, and study...  Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. JP Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. B. Russell |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
What is philosophy? I don't know. It seems to me that if we try to define it, it becomes either too broad or too narrow to be useful. What exactly does the love of knowledge and the search for knowledge actually mean? What is the relation between knowledge and truth? In another thread I said philosophy was rhetorical criticism -- perhaps a bit unsatisfying for most people here but a valid one if one accepts Nietsche's (yes, I'm jumping on the bandwagon) answer to the question, "What is truth?": "A moving army of metaphors, metonymies and anthropomorphisms, in short a summa of human relationships that are being poetically and rhetorically sublimated, transposed and beautified until, after long and repeated use, a people considers them as solid, canonical, and unavoidable. Truths are illusions whose illusionary nature has been forgotten . . ." How about philosophy as the critique of common sense? Brad |
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