argument

literature

philosophy

tragedy

truth

is failure of creativity, a failure to compel.

Further outrageous claims: Argument: failure of creativity; failure to compel. Instead: leaps, associations, charm, and seduction.

Literature: writing that means more than it says.

is not interested in truth or even in wisdom but in human beings.

The breakthrough: philosophy isn’t interested in truth or even in wisdom but in human beings. The breakthrough: whose?

is that which, like art, makes the strange familiar and the familiar strange.

A fact about attention: philosophy, like art, makes the strange familiar and the familiar strange.

is a thing which to witness is to see it as comedy or not see it at all.

To witness tragedy is to see it as comedy or not see it at all.

is a human tool that serves human purposes.

Philosophy as way of talking ? Truth ? human tool that serves human purposes. What would an elephant’s philosophy be? We are in the business of making meaning and the meaning that succeeds in meaning changes with the subject.

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