Just save some for later. :confused: — Posty McPostface

The Thread can't DIE! — Waya

Does this parable apply to groups who have been injured by the policies of others? — Bitter Crank

It's Alfred North Whitehead, of course, — InternetStranger

Slightly less obvious is that Plato was the great synthesizer of the early Greeks, the first to bring it all together, and, more importantly perhaps, the first philosopher that we have more or less in his total output. — InternetStranger

Recall the famous word concerning Plato — InternetStranger

It was the model for the West. Greater familiarity with the great thinkers of the west is the best way to prove this to yourself. — InternetStranger

Remember, the word academic means Plato's Academy, — InternetStranger

which is the bowels of all universities on the earth, and all their research programs. — InternetStranger

Questioning is human. — InternetStranger

Some people want the glory of being called philosopher but they don't want to put in the hard work to get there. — Jeremiah

You're a fine rhetorician.

You have a cheep debating tactic. — InternetStranger

" I think that's a misguided view and so react negatively when philosophy is portrayed as the study of something superior in some profound sense to life as lived." — InternetStranger

Rutherford isolated the nucleus of the atom. He wasn't, however, concerned with its possible applications. He died believing nothing would come of that discovery, and that the release of the energy from the nucleus would not mean much. He gloried in the knowledge for its own sake, i.e., real knowledge. Not "stamp collecting" — InternetStranger

Weber in many respects controls the universities today. The notion of the "ideal type" is very powerful. The notion of a "fact value" distinction (which, make no mistake, became powerful through Weber, though it was developed by Simmel and stems from Nietzsche, Hume is only accidentally and retrospectively credited with this because of Kant/Nietzsche) controls the whole academic product and the methodology of each field (just as much and more in the those social sciences were it is explicitly rejected, because it still founds those disciplines in their methodology:, e.g., sociology, ethnology, anthropology and the rest of the Kulturwissenschaften). The systematic expulsion of subjectivity, political science, not political philosophy. — InternetStranger

Ergo, the point is, philosophy is no other world. — InternetStranger

Think of living in a tribal life of scarcity and without education. Is it not closer to barbarity? — InternetStranger

Ergo, the raising up is what you are now because of what has been philosophized. — InternetStranger

I'm with Socrates so far as he made the starkly patent truth vocal in propounding that a life that does not inquire is no human life. — InternetStranger

Ergo, all humans are philosophers. — InternetStranger

It seems to follow as corollary of philosophy's status as the highest activity vouchsafed to human beings. The rest is "stamp collecting". — InternetStranger

Yet, is this not an appalling shirking of one's duty to roar philosophically, and to heroically inquire into what is? — InternetStranger

What can they do that we cannot? — tim wood

And the parallel question, what would better thinking for humans look like? — tim wood

How long does the probation last? — VagabondSpectre

Ah but I AM awesome, therefore you must know me! — VagabondSpectre

Let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V! — VagabondSpectre

An awesome member who is never wrong? — VagabondSpectre

Finally I get recognition. — VagabondSpectre

To be honest to thyself and to keep an open mind to actually, dare I say, being wrong. — Posty McPostface

To be honest to thyself and to keep an open mind to actually, dare I say, being wrong. — Posty McPostface

I've come to realize that the questions posed here are very personal and intimate to the arguer. — Posty McPostface