Heidegger

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

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

Some quotes on the subject from Plato (don’t have the line numbers yet):

‘The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world
of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging
reality which is the object of knowledge.’

‘Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it
as much as he loves truth .. And is there anything more closely connected
with wisdom than truth?’

‘Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge
naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but
soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential
nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the
faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it,
and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from
travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?’

‘One trait in the philosopher’s character we can assume is his love of the
knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and
decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly
be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the
lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.’

Posted on Sunday, October 29th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
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