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Post by Polaris on Feb 7, 2018 20:46:37 GMT
Do people read philosophy for pleasure?.If yes, is Philosophy Literature?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 1:24:20 GMT
Ouch... You raised a very hard question.
J. Derrida concerned philosophy to be literature, as R. Rorti did too.
A. Ayer concerned philosophy to have functional purpose for systemazing philosophical knowledges, as K. Popper did too.
There were a lot of philosophers who held the same or different from it positions...
My lecturer of 'Philosophy of Art' and 'Modern Philosophy' holds derridian position, as many others lecturers and professors in our faculty.
I personally uphold Ayer's position. There are lots of philosophical books that cannot be read just by stranger (outliner). For example:
G. Von Wright 'Logic reaserches';
R. Carnap 'Necessity and meaning*'
F. Ramsey 'Philosophical works'
A. Pap's works, etc.
Reading of such works requires competention in knowing Freage's, Wittgenstein's, or Russels's works relating to logic-philosophy problems.
Besides, such thinkers as I. Kant 'Critique of Pure Reason', G. Hegel 'Phenomenology of Spirit'; E. Husserl's works, etc are - as tough and hard to read as the top of Himalayas...
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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 8, 2018 2:35:17 GMT
Yeah. I like reading the philosophy posts and search for images about philosophy. This counts?
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Post by Polaris on Feb 8, 2018 4:32:37 GMT
Eugene, could the opposite also be true. Does literature always present a philosophical point of view?
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Post by Polaris on Feb 8, 2018 4:35:08 GMT
Queen Elizabeth, yes it does count. the two differ in the way the present reality, philosophy stressing truth and literature fiction. Both deal with reality literally or symbolically.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 15:10:47 GMT
Thank you for your asking! Honestly, I think that literature and philosphy could be together like Tolstoy, for example, or J. P. Satre.
...Probably, yes, if it is a serious literature?... To say truth, I don't really know. I think reading and know well the literature is probably the king's way* to philosophy.
* - It reminded me Euclid's answer to Ptolemy the First, about geometry: 'Tere is no royal road to geometry'
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Post by Gavius on Feb 28, 2018 12:43:58 GMT
Do people read philosophy for pleasure?.If yes, is Philosophy Literature? Definitely, for both for me. Even the sources I am attending for an assignment, I end up continuing for my own interests after the project is long done. I especially love Ancient Roman and Greek philosophy, they're a joy to read. |
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Post by ajay0 on Feb 28, 2018 14:42:03 GMT
Do people read philosophy for pleasure?.If yes, is Philosophy Literature? Philosophy can be stated to be a pursuit of knowledge or truth. Literature, for me at least, is an insight into the working of language, words and grammar, and also human emotions and actions. Philosophy satisfies me intellectually, while literature stimulates the emotions and enables me to understand life and human behavior without getting entangled. |
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Post by Polaris on Feb 28, 2018 21:45:17 GMT
Do people read philosophy for pleasure?.If yes, is Philosophy Literature? Philosophy can be stated to be a pursuit of knowledge or truth. Literature, for me at least, is an insight into the working of language, words and grammar, and also human emotions and actions. Philosophy satisfies me intellectually, while literature stimulates the emotions and enables me to understand life and human behavior without getting entangled. So, does reading philosophy satisfy your quest for truth and stimulate your emotions at the same time ? |
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Post by Polaris on Feb 28, 2018 21:50:22 GMT
Do people read philosophy for pleasure?.If yes, is Philosophy Literature? Definitely, for both for me. Even the sources I am attending for an assignment, I end up continuing for my own interests after the project is long done. I especially love Ancient Roman and Greek philosophy, they're a joy to read. The truths they were looking for are still the same ones we are looking for now |
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Post by Gavius on Mar 1, 2018 13:15:01 GMT
Definitely, for both for me. Even the sources I am attending for an assignment, I end up continuing for my own interests after the project is long done. I especially love Ancient Roman and Greek philosophy, they're a joy to read. The truths they were looking for are still the same ones we are looking for now Exactly, it's why in that other thread I said that Ancient Athens would be the place in history I'd most love to visit. Having a conversation with these men would be wonderful, although our own time has no lack of brilliant minds either. |
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