Moderation Questions
The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic fa
Yeah, I feel the same way about advanced theoretical physics. Who needs classrooms? Classrooms are for losers!
I know philosophy through direct experience. Believing you are an authority on philosophy because of classroom based credentials is silly.
craig,
Your latest musings on the ontology of violence seem like some half-baked regurgitation of Derrida with a religious twist. I strongly suspect that you picked it up from some woo-woo religious website on the internet, not direct experience.
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People who study + teach philosophy in a classroom are historians. There is value in that (except for the charlatans).
The same is true for psychology.
The same is true for spirituality.
People who study + teach philosophy in a classroom are historians. There is value in that (except for the charlatans).
The same is true for psychology.
The same is true for spirituality.
I don't necessarily agree with you, but if I did, I could make the same arguments about chemistry, mathematics, or just about anything else.
If you're publishing philosophy then you're a philosopher.
If you're not publishing but just teaching then probably not.
If you’re publishing philosophy then you’re a publisher.
Who is and who isn’t an authority is subjective of course.
Is someone who has studied the history of poker and is familiar with different poker strategies, but has never been a winning player, at stakes that matter, an authority on poker?
To an outsider, probably. To me? No.
People who study + teach philosophy in a classroom are historians. There is value in that (except for the charlatans).
The same is true for psychology.
The same is true for spirituality.
There are still a great deal of philosophical problems yet to be solved in metaphysics, metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, skeptical problems, aesthetics, induction, philosophy of science, ontology, philosophy of religion etc… People are working on these problems right now.
The truth is that the problem with philosophy is communication to the general public, not that it’s all stagnant and from dusty books.
There are still a great deal of philosophical problems yet to be solved in metaphysics, metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, skeptical problems, aesthetics, induction, philosophy of science, ontology, philosophy of religion etc… People are working on these problems right now.The truth is that the problem with philosophy is communication to the general public, not that
What does the fulfillment of philosophy look like? Unless you know the answer to this question, you don’t truly know what philosophy is.
And you don’t truly know what philosophy is until you’ve fulfilled it in your life first.
In this way, I would make a distinction between social philosophy and actual philosophy. Actual philosophy is participatory and embodied. Social philosophy is not.
Lagtight is a social philosopher, taught in a classroom by other social philosophers who mistakenly believe they are doing actual philosophy.
What does the fulfillment of philosophy look like? Unless you know the answer to this question, you don’t truly know what philosophy is.And you don’t truly know what philosophy is until you’ve fulfilled it in your life first.In this way, I would make a distinction between social philosophy and actual philosophy. Actual philosophy is participatory and embodied. Social philosophy
The philosophical man participates in social life, but is not himself socialized. For this reason, the philosophical man often is referred to as unsocialized. But this is a mistake. The philosophical man is not unsocialized or, even worse, oversocialized. Rather, he has transcended socialization. Somewhat paradoxically, it is exactly this transcendence which allows the philosphical man to become philosophical in the first place. Little wonder, then, that the first ourobouros was fashioned by a man of actual (not social) philosophical spirit.
I know philosophy through direct experience. Believing you are an authority on philosophy because of classroom based credentials is silly.
I do not now, nor have I ever, claimed to be an authority on Philosophy. But I think I have at least an elementary grasp of the vocabulary of the subject. Which is more than can be said for you in my humble opinion.
The philosophical man participates in social life, but is not himself socialized. For this reason, the philosophical man often is referred to as unsocialized. But this is a mistake. The philosophical man is not unsocialized or, even worse, oversocialized. Rather, he has transcended socialization. Somewhat paradoxically, it is exactly this transcendence which allows the phi
'What I do not know, I do not think I know.' (Socrates on wisdom, attributed by Plato in the Apology.)
