Heidegger

Cologne 29-Oct-2006

That Pete schrieb Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:35:55 -0700 (PDT):

> — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:53:11 +0100 Bookwright wrote:
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> > Philosophy: the love of wisdom
> > i.e. love
> > wisdom
>
> Love, in the Heraclitean sense:
> http://enowning.blogspot.com/2004/10/wha…
>
>

ME: To say that philosophy is the love of wisdom is too non-specific. There is wisdom in many places — in Confucius, Lao Tse, Samkhja, the scriptures of the Abrahamic religions, etc. One essential hallmark of philosophy is thinking. Thinking is always thinking-for-oneself, and it is strictly speaking a pleonasm to speak of thinking individually for oneself. Only through thinking is there freedom. Each human being is ineluctably
free — although for the most part deficiently so — in having to think for him/herself. The adoption of wisdom through accepting sources of authority (e.g. revealed scriptural truth) is antithetical to both philosophy and freedom.

Philosophy shares the practice of thinking with science, but the latter thinks only what is finite. Philosophy thinks that precious little named variously throughout the history of philosophy as the ideas, beings _as such_, the infinite, being.

As the love of thinking, philosophy is the love of freedom.

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Posted on Sunday, October 29th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
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