This video is fantastic...I think you will love it Fresco...
(and you know the funny contradiction in there for me Fresco ? ...I am much more on the "trickster side"...but then I fall in love for the "beauty" of what is "actual"...
...my advice, for anyone, whatever is worth, would be (sorry for being personnel) don´t be like Kenneth self assured block minded extremely objective and with no imagination, neither like the "lyric gazer/dreamer" who wonders with no direction... but somewhere in between...preferably the best of both in the same person...
It feels good when two (or more) people are making good points and are involved in good discussion. But it's extremely bad when the discussion has nothing to do with the main topic.
I knew you would love it right from the beginning !
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Fido
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Sat 19 Feb, 2011 01:07 pm
@G H,
G H wrote:
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Is there a standard definition for Philosophy?
In the Anglophone world, it's fancied that the proper goal of philosophy has finally been established: (1) The analysis of the structure of thought; (2) That the study of thought is to be distinct from psychological research and theories about thinking; (3) That the method for analysing thought consists in the analysis of language. This idealization apparently oblivious to analytic philosophy in current times having "deteriorated" into a post-linguistic era of eclecticism / pluralism, where the former has less unifying emphasis.
What's transpiring in common forums on the web would better fall under: (1) Discussions about the "history of philosophy"; (2) Feeding current socio-political circumstances into the meat-grinder of existing frameworks, theories, doctrines; (3) Students refining or seeking input on their required projects; (4) Folk philosophy, mysticism, and crackpot concoctions being paraded (as tenured professors and free-lance authors are hardly submitting their "new ideas"[facetiousness?] in such arenas).
Immanuel Kant: Philosophy is not some sort of science of representations, concepts, and ideas, or a science of all sciences, or anything else of this sort; rather, it is a science of the human being, of its representing, thinking, and acting - it should present the human being in all of its components, as it is and ought to be, that is, in accordance with its natural determinations as well as its relationship of morality and freedom. --The Conflict of the Faculties, 1798
I would agree with Kant here; and yet add that knowledge as truth certainly plays a part, though truth without the vision of mankind, what we are, our strengths, our weaknesses, our dreams and needs is a terrible thing... The pursuit of knowledge has become a thing in itself as though knowledge as power is any asset to us, to humanity in reaching our ultimate goal...
