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Originally Posted by VeeDDzz`
Because skepticism, critical thought, the questioning of authority and cultural norms all characterise the purpose and history of philosophy, it must be one of the most important philosophers to have encouraged people to do the opposite.
Anyone who reads another person's philosophical viewpoint and takes it as the unbridled truth, isn't actually engaging in philosophy. Rather, they're committing philosophical suicide.
No. The entire purpose of philosophical thought is to confirm/rationalize one's preformed intuitive beliefs. Those beliefs are entirely determined through a synthesis of cultural norms and idiosyncratic personality factors and mood.
Those who bother to write down these musings are weirdos, but if you can find one that describes why you are right, you can save yourself some time by reading their crap instead of developing your own crap. Or, if you happen to find yourself unsure of what preformed intuitive beliefs you have and need to glom onto something, you can just pick the one whose facial hair you like best.
Obviously ignore the crap that has anything at all to do with the actual world. Forms, universals and such oddities can be skipped over in favor of current category theory in much the same way as one can skip over some other thing that can be skipped over easily.
(Obviously none of this, other than the facial hair, applies to William James)
Last edited by BrianTheMick2; 05-30-2018 at 02:13 AM.
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