True philosophy only has to do with a single problem: death. — Primperan
Entertainments. Mathematics will interest the mathematician. Art is an artist thing ... Those are just diplomatic ways of rejecting the only problem that haunts us all our lives: that we have to die.Death may be the 'Big Problem' in the end but much philosophy is simply trying to work out how to spend and understand your time. What is maths? What is art? What is beauty? — Tom Storm
The only real thing is that we have to die. For the one who dies, it is the same whether he lived 3, 30 or 300 years. Is the same. And we have to die."Death" may be the poet's muse, but the "true" philosopher contemplates – reflectively engages with – the real. :fire: — 180 Proof
Entertainments. Mathematics will interest the mathematician. Art is an artist thing ... Those are just diplomatic ways of rejecting the only problem that haunts us all our lives: that we have to die. — Primperan
Think it through, dig deeper, further than "Calvin & Hobbes". — 180 Proof
An existential bias which ignores the ontological horizon. Only a truism, Primperan, not philosophy. Think it through, dig deeper, further than "Calvin & Hobbes". — 180 Proof
The true philosopher wants to know the truth. So the real philosophers are journalists and scientists. So every student in philosophy should study science, journalism, and the truths they have found first. — AgentTangarine
Yes, if not exaggerated, it's myopic. In fact, the vast majority of philosophical inquiry is about objective knowledge and ethics/morality. That should give us a clue that philosophers, certainly, are thinking of the going-concern notion of life. If anything, philosophy is too full of life. It "reeks" -- as a light-hearted reference to alive.This is certainly what popular culture often thinks philosophy is. One of the great platitudes you hear is all religion and all philosophy is simply humanity's inability to face death. I think this is exaggerated, — Tom Storm
In three words: "Calvin and Hobbes". You can start with the story of the raccoon run over. True philosophy only has to do with a single problem: death. We are not able to face it. That is why there are so many philosophers. Since we don't know how to die, we don't know how to live either. — Primperan
The true philosopher wants to know the truth. So the real philosophers are journalists and scientists. So every student in philosophy should study science, journalism, and the truths they have found first. — AgentTangarine
↪CheshireMy philosophy teacher just confuses me a lot, first he says something, but then he says another thing that contradicts the other and I just get tangled up. — DesperateBeing
What's the best way to learn philosophy? — DesperateBeing
Define (a) acquaintance knowledge, (b) ability knowledge, and (c) propositional
knowledge.
Indicative content:
• Acquaintance knowledge: having acquaintance knowledge is…
• …knowing / having knowledge of X (by experience of X)
• …knowing / having knowledge of X (a place/thing/person) by experience of X (it/him/her)
• … knowing of’
• e.g. I know Jim well; I know York (like the back of my hand).
• Ability knowledge: having ability knowledge is…
• …knowing / having knowledge of how to perform/complete a task/action
• …having the ability to perform/complete/carry out a task/action
• … knowing ‘how’…
• e.g. I know how to ride a bike; I know how to tie my shoelaces.
• Propositional knowledge: having propositional knowledge is….
• …knowing / having knowledge that some claim – a proposition – is true or false
• …knowing / having knowledge that p (where p is a proposition)
• …knowing / having knowledge that something is the case
• …having knowledge that is expressed in the form of a true proposition/sentence/assertion.
• …knowing / having knowledge of a fact/truth
• …Knowing ‘that’…
• e.g. I know that 2 + 2 = 4; I know that the sky is blue
• (Students might give a definition of a proposition (eg a declarative sentence) but need not do
so)
• Do not credit knowing ‘about’ something, as this does not sufficiently distinguish propositional
from acquaintance knowledge.
The natural sciences begin from a position of eliminated subjectivity: Let us imagine there are no humans and conduct observations accordingly — emancipate
A study of matter without experience is half-truth at best. If you want truth, science alone is not enough. — emancipate
If that is so, how will they be able in the first place to even think about conducting experiments? If you imagine there are no people you should imagine youself gone too, hence, no science about this objective world can be achieved. — AgentTangarine
I think it's at best no truth at all. A truth cannot exist without experience, neither a half truth. Science and journalists can find lots of truth though, and a philosopher must absorb them before he can even start philosophizing about them. — AgentTangarine
Ssshh! He's not being a troll, just not talking in philosophical terms.↪Primperan
That leap is ... either stupid or merely trollish. Have a good one. — 180 Proof
Just to explain a little bit here. In common sense knowledge, we do know that everyone would die sooner or later. But we're not disputing common sense knowledge here, but the epistemological one -- which @180 Proof has been trying to get clarity of.What absurd clarity! You must be the unique person who does not know that you have to die. Good luck with that. — Primperan
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