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Philosophy: What's the point?

 
 
eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 01:34 pm
@guigus,
It was a joke.

Do you understand the concept or is it beneath you.
guigus
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 01:36 pm
@HexHammer,
HexHammer wrote:

..let me try another approach.

People come to philosophize:

- to gain knowledge
- to illuminate knowledge which may seem baffeling
- to seek answers to a specific problem
- to discover ourselves
- to discover new ways
- to exchange information
- to test belives and oppinions
..etc..


Above all, we philosophize to respond -- to give an answer to the world as much as to ourselves regarding who we are in that world. Which is why there is no point in a purely contemplative philosophy.
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guigus
 
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Reply Sun 21 Nov, 2010 01:37 pm
@eurocelticyankee,
eurocelticyankee wrote:

It was a joke.

Do you understand the concept or is it beneath you.


Sorry for not finding your joke that funny.
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north
 
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Reply Mon 22 Nov, 2010 02:48 pm
@HexHammer,
HexHammer wrote:

..let me try another approach.

People come to philosophize:

- to gain knowledge
- to illuminate knowledge which may seem baffeling
- to seek answers to a specific problem
- to discover ourselves
- to discover new ways
- to exchange information
- to test belives and oppinions
..etc..


agreed

but to add a category

understand reality

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