Philosophy never died, it moved to Twitter.
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Is that worse? You be the judge 😁
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Hahah, indeed it seems to depend on who’s asked 😉
I think it’s by no means worse. Twitter is just a medium through which it’s easy to express things that can be regarded as philosophical. Plus side is the accessibility 😄
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I agree, the plus side is the accessibility. 😊 No ivory tower here. Sometimes I think it wouldn't be so bad if philosophy died, so it could be reborn.
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Oh, I very much agree! I feel it lacks a certain vitality. So it perhaps could be said to already be in the dying-phase... and perhaps Twitter is one of the places of its metamorphosis’ next step where it’s free to emerge spontaneously. 😄
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I think true philosophy is just as its name’s origin; a love of wisdom. It’s just become so cerebral and abstract that I feel we’ve forgotten what it originally stood for, and in what ways humanity can benefit from it.
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I could not agree more! To me, a lot of philosophy seems to be about avoiding philosophy, about having an answer, a definition, so you can get rid of the questions. I don't think you can love wisdom if you don't love the open space of a question.
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Hahah, that’s very well put! 😄 Much like Plato said, knowing that knowing is impossible is the starting point of understanding. It’s a very easy thing to forget though!
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Every answer is a dead question, and out of their decaying trunks grow new questions.
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