The thing about philosophy is that you can't half-ass it and still consider it philosophy. If you didn't try your very best, then it's probably bullshit. Even if you try your very best, it's almost certainly bullshit. — darthbarracuda
That's actually not really a quote by Einstein... That's a myth. — Wosret
No, I have all kinds of friends! All of the friends. All of the best friends! Everyone is my friend -- except for you! — Wosret
Also, I think that it was probably because Einstein was a jew and everyone feels bad for them because of Hitler, so that when you said that Einstein said it, people would be all like "oh, the poor jews", and not want to say it's wrong, because it might make the jews feel bad. That's clearly what happened. — Wosret
I'm not interested in truth which seems overrated: an important-sounding value you put into a system if you want. I like clarification and insight. I doubt there is truth, I suppose: philosophy seems to me non-progressive, and I like it for that. — mcdoodle
I suppose this means you aren't very interested in, say, analytic philosophy? Analyticism does not use phenomenology very much, it's more intuitions and logic. — darthbarracuda
Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same result. Can this be applied to philosophy? — darthbarracuda
Contrary to the established belief that metaphysics is first philosophy, I think that it is ethics that is first philosophy (pace Levinas), or an ethics-based metaphysics. You have to be alive in order to do anything else, and so we have to ask ourselves how we ought to live, or if we should live in the first place. — darthbarracuda
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