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What Is PhilosopHy?
Paul Sietsema, Chinese philosophy painting, 2012. © Paul Sietsema. Photo: Ron Amstutz, courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
I know that I don’t know
what Philosophy is.
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http://www.artnau.com/2015/03/ei-kaneko/
Doesn’t mean I can’t Try.
An Approach
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IT’s
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Negotiating our (common) world?
• philein - to love
• sophia - wisdom
• It is “thinking about the world and making sense of it” • It is Search for “Erkenntnis” – knowledge and enlightenment –
recognizing the essence and being of things. • It starts with asking questions and inquiring about terms used,
precision of own and other’s thoughts.
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• Philosophy means, to search and establish general opinions by defining and analyzing terms of general concepts and using logic.
• “..mit Hilfe der Begriffsanalyse nach der Bedeutungvon allgemeinen Begriffen und mit Hilfe der Logik nach der Begründung von allgemeinen Meinungen zu suchen. Pfister, J. (2006). Philosophie. Ein Lehrbuch, Stuttgart.
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Systematic Search for General opinions and concepts?
It’s probably also..
• ..what you do when you have eaten, drank, have slept and have had sex. (Federico Marroni, 2015, contemporary philosopher misquoting Aristotle)
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C.-D. Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Mists
The Nantucket School of Philosophy 1887
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What does Philosophy look like?
Edward Hopper, Excursion into philosophy
Rodin, The Thinker
Brueghel, Tower of Babel Raphael, School of Athens
Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates
Which one is true: one or the other?
The Death of Socrates, Jacque Louis David’
Is there one Answer?
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Are there two? Which one is true: one or the other?
Tertium non datur
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Why not one AND the other?
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Why not one AND the other?
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Anti-Realism
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Why not A Blissful Acceptance Of and Coexistence with AMBIGUITY and Contradiction?
