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is, in the end, nothing more than the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat which isn't there.

philosophy is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat which isn't there.

is a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.

If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment. Cornel West

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. (St. Thomas Aquinas)

is a discipline whose medium is concepts, just as sound is the medium for the musician or color for the artist.

the medium in philosophy is the concept (like sound for the musician or color for the painter), the philosopher creates concepts. He executes his creation in a conceptual 'continuum' just like the musician does in a sonorous continuum. (Deleuze 'desert islands' :141)

is a field limited in its scope to the repetition and expression of the inner nature of the world in very general concepts.

philosophy is nothing but a complete and accurate repetition and expression of the inner nature of the world in very general concepts' (WWR I 52, 264). . . 'philosophy can never do more than interpret and explain what is present and at hand... it can never do more than bring to the distinct, abstract knowledge of the faculty of reason the inner nature of the world' WWR I 53, p271)

is a field of study that seeks to edify, to 'break free' from outworn vocabularies and attitudes rather than to provide 'grounding.

I present Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Dewey as philosophers whose aim is to edify to help their readers, or society as a whole, break free from outworn vocabularies and attitudes, rather than to provide 'grounding' for the intutiions and customs of the present. (Rorty 1979: 11-12)

is a field that poses questions rather than proposing solutions.

philosophy is a matter of posing quetions, rather than proposing solutions (Marks Gilles Deleuze 23). For philsophy, questions where 'Science operates according to a serial time, in which the proper names of sceintist indicate points of rupture and reconnection. Philosophyk, oon the other hand, operates accoriding to a stratigraphic time, whereby what comes after is always superimposed on what came before (Marks Gilles Deleuze, What is Philosophy 124-5)

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