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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