An excellent journey through the inherited bits of misunderstandings! Very well explained! Thank you for your post. It's really no wonder that some people fear and avoid philosophers. It's been a 'cluster' for so long. Our culture is one of 'selecting from a menu', whether it's a philosophical or a religious system of belief. And when a student is expected to only select from the cultural norms, it just reinforces those misguided veins of thought. As is typical in academia, whichever philosopher has the greatest means to promote themselves and gain the largest audience, has more power to 'sell' their addition to the menu selection. .... We need to find original ways to overcome that. This is what is strongly on my mind as of late. It's as if I'm being prodded to do something really unique. It's so tough in our current global sea of empty information. People are reading books less and less. There is a momentous push for sharing nothing longer than a tweet and presentations being no more than 5-10 minutes max. ... Originality is necessary. I am hoping for a eureka moment. I'll let you know if I come up with something. ;-)
With enough blind men able and willing to talk to each other, over time, we can discover the elephant in the room.
And women. ;-)
Why, back in my day, we only let our blind men seek out truth. The womenfolk tended to the important stuff like the children, said an old coot. :)
An excellent journey through the inherited bits of misunderstandings! Very well explained! Thank you for your post. It's really no wonder that some people fear and avoid philosophers. It's been a 'cluster' for so long. Our culture is one of 'selecting from a menu', whether it's a philosophical or a religious system of belief. And when a student is expected to only select from the cultural norms, it just reinforces those misguided veins of thought. As is typical in academia, whichever philosopher has the greatest means to promote themselves and gain the largest audience, has more power to 'sell' their addition to the menu selection. .... We need to find original ways to overcome that. This is what is strongly on my mind as of late. It's as if I'm being prodded to do something really unique. It's so tough in our current global sea of empty information. People are reading books less and less. There is a momentous push for sharing nothing longer than a tweet and presentations being no more than 5-10 minutes max. ... Originality is necessary. I am hoping for a eureka moment. I'll let you know if I come up with something. ;-)