6. Negotiating our (common) world?
• philein - to love
• sophia - wisdom
• It is “thinking about the world and making sense of it”
• It is Search for “Erkenntnis” – knowledge and enlightenment –
recognizing the essence and being of things.
• It starts with asking questions and inquiring about terms used,
precision of own and other’s thoughts.
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7. • Philosophy means, to search and establish general opinions by
defining and analyzing terms of general concepts and using logic.
• “..mit Hilfe der Begriffsanalyse nach der Bedeutungvon
allgemeinen Begriffen und mit Hilfe der Logik nach der
Begründung von allgemeinen Meinungen zu suchen.
Pfister, J. (2006). Philosophie. Ein Lehrbuch, Stuttgart.
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Systematic Search for
General opinions and concepts?
8. It’s probably also..
• ..what you do when you have eaten, drank, have slept and have had
sex.
(Federico Marroni, 2015,
contemporary philosopher misquoting Aristotle)
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9. C.-D. Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Mists
The Nantucket School of Philosophy 1887
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What does Philosophy look like?
Edward Hopper,
Excursion into
philosophy
Rodin, The Thinker
Brueghel, Tower of Babel
Raphael, School of Athens
Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates
10. Which one is true: one or the other?
The
Death
of
Socrates,
Jacque
Louis
David’
Is there one Answer?
http://vi.sualize.us/not_the_one_by_jen_mann_picture_LqRC.html
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Are there two?
Which one is true:
one or the other?
Tertium non datur