On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 9:33:29 AM UTC+2 Bruno Marchal wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2020, at 01:18, Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Philosophy really means love of sophistry, philos sophist. Socrates > objected terribly to the notion he was a sophist. His main rival was > Gorgias, a sophist. > > > > Philosophy is more “philo Sophia”: the love of Sophia (wiseness). It is > just the love of the search of the ultimate truth, or of the first > principle. > In the spirit of being inspired by the comic and being too bored to read the list, I'd say reality is made of shit, not of stuff as Thales woke up thinking... and philosophy is the activity of looking and hoping for the possibility of the existence of said shit... being cool/good or bad. Because it can take many forms... the position of yours truly isn't distinguishable from shit, as we never really know if it's bad, cool/good. That is why philosophy gotta be though. So there's another frame missing in that comic where Thales steps into a time machine to see if philosophy had any bearing on the present moment (to satisfy the itch of Wittgenstein). In the next frame some AI helps him understand the internet upon stepping out of the machine in 2020 and he goes "By the thunderbolt of Zeus, stuff really is shit!". This is followed by another frame of the comic artists and editors deciding to delete those frames because they want to relate philosophy in a humorous and family friendly way, even though they concede that the somewhat old school notion of the ontology of yours truly has some bearing on assessing the nature of the reality show on display currently. And we all saw it coming a mile away Lol.PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9522484b-8a15-49e5-8057-e99952964902n%40googlegroups.com.
