How to Philosophize | Arthur Schopenhauer

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Both philosophers and philosophy students struggle when it comes to defining the very thing they enjoy: philosophy. For every attempted definition of philosophy is a rebuttal. But just because a definition is incomplete or flawed doesn't mean that it holds no practical value. If anything, it could help us learn how to philosophize.
In his collection of essays and aphorisms, the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer gives his thoughts on the definition of philosophy and philosophizing. For philosophy, Schopenhauer doesn't think we should neglect our ability to perceive the world nor our heart. For philosophizing, he asks us to courageously question everything, no matter how foundational, and to try to maintain a sense of neutrality.
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@GeneralPedrowsky 8 ай бұрын

I, too, have been plagued by the Pragmatic way of thinking, so an objective definition is really difficult to specify. I like to think about philosophy the way James described it, as "a certain clash of human temperaments". In that context philosophy would be the varying different ways in which we attempt to intellectually justify our different intuitions about the world around us, what we understand as "good", and so on. Another great video! This channel deserves way more subs!

@jesseb415 8 ай бұрын

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@PhilosophyToons 8 ай бұрын

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@001variation 4 ай бұрын

4:45 In the spirit of questioning and criticizing everything, I’m going to say that this is actually not a photograph of the earth, it’s a composite made from satellite data. There’s actually remarkably few actual photographs of the entire earth, the Apollo 11 mission, the Apollo 17 mission, the voyager 1 probe (the famous pale blue dot picture), and that’s it AFAIK. As an aside, that particular picture was made from the iPhone lock screen background by a Robert Simmon, a NASA data visualization guy.