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13/01/2017 at 08:46 #17717
Philosophy always seems to come down to the study of language, the history of flux in language and concepts and also, how we ourselves learn. The term Philology seems more appropriate, but the ‘love of wisdom’ is the word we use.
Why? Well, love is always dual (or two sided), you have to take the good with the bad when it comes to love. I guess love is probably the most irrational concept and we are forever trying to make sense of it.
We say ‘philosophy’ because knowledge is something we understand with hearts and minds, even when philosophy is declared as redundant, we still can’t leave it alone! In which case, are we after truth, or something else?
Philology is a rarely used term to refer to a discipline of knowledge, philosophy is the generic term.
14/01/2017 at 11:22 #18325
Philosophy always seems to come down to the study of language, the history of flux in language and concepts and also, how we ourselves learn. The term Philology seems more appropriate, but the ‘love of wisdom’ is the word we use.Why? Well, love is always dual (or two sided), you have to take the good with the bad when it comes to love. I guess love is probably the most irrational concept and we are forever trying to make sense of it.
We say ‘philosophy’ because knowledge is something we understand with hearts and minds, even when philosophy is declared as redundant, we still can’t leave it alone! In which case, are we after truth, or something else?
Philology is a rarely used term to refer to a discipline of knowledge, philosophy is the generic term.
To say philosophy comes down to the study of language for me is only part of he story, ultimately I believe philosophy is about ‘how to live’, and ‘how to live correctly’ hence it originally being ‘the love of wisdom’, if we forget it’s application to life and fall into being overly abstract then we start to go in the wrong direction….language is the tool of philosophers, and part of their role is to examine and create ideas to grasp something that hadn’t previously been clearly expressed or uncovered, as ideas are expressed in language we study texts to familiarise ourselves with the ideas of those that have gone before us to try and understand what they were / are trying to say and to apply to our lives if useful and relevant
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14/01/2017 at 11:46 #18324
To say philosophy comes down to the study of language for me is only part of he story, ultimately I believe philosophy is about ‘how to live’, and ‘how to live correctly’ hence it originally being ‘the love of wisdom’, if we forget it’s application to life and fall into being overly abstract then we start to go in the wrong direction….language is the tool of philosophers, and part of their role is to examine and create ideas to grasp something that hadn’t previously been clearly expressed or uncovered, as ideas are expressed in language we study texts to familiarise ourselves with the ideas of those that have gone before us to try and understand what they were / are trying to say to see if it is relevant to our lives
Totally agree. I was chatting with someone on YouTube and they seem to be sold on Nietzsche’s view of the herd as being in their place, what I would previously say is the Plato view of slaves and the ones in the cave. I find this hard to grasp why someone would want to just leave people to rot, believing that they are happy in their place. I explained some of the Foucault themes that evolve Nietzsches’ view of slave morality into something more along the lines of defiance and resistance instead of weakness as strength, but then this guy said that he only ‘likes Foucault for his philosophy and psychology, not his politics’ and I don’t believe you can separate them like that, it is consistent throughout – the point is that there is a practicality to Foucault that we don’t see in Nietzsche and when I look at the background of people who take the ‘let’s have slaves, they will like it anyway’ view, they are not aristocrats themselves, they are working class which makes their use of philosophy useless in my opinion.
I think the practical philosophy side of things has been lost in the meaning of philosophy, yet many proclaim to be humanists, or to use rationality and modern technology to improve life for humans. What I see however, is instead of giving the poor more resources, they advocate sterilisation for tax relief, or instead of preventing overseas military intervention to lower the flow of refugees, they juistify it as ‘rebuilding foreign societies’ and then oppose immigration! Not so rational if you ask me, never mind wise.
I liked the bit in the Wittgenstein Derrida article you shared that said the goal of philosophy is not truth, but clarity.
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