Thursday, November 6, 2014
Hermetic Philosophy
The funny thing about philosophy, is as it
developed, philosophers would keep all their work to themselves (while
trafficking in others’ work of course) and hide everything until it was
finished, which they would spring upon the population, giving us this tangle of idiosyncratic reasoning with a learning curve. But we realize all of these philosophers
are talking about the same things, just different angles of the same things,
which of course, artificially juxtaposed conflict. Logical philosophers saw
this, and tried to formalize the discourse and tried to make things more
objective like the sciences. But logic systems ended up becoming tools of their
own, isolated from the greater project of philosophy, gaining a learning curve
of their own. Language remains a strong communicating tool which is better at
expressing many things in many dimensions that logical signs can’t. Probably
because it’s been evolving for so long. Anyways, we can still make philosophy
more relate-able in practice. By increasing communication. By flattening the
topographies of power.
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