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Kevin
 Jan 2, 08 - 4:16 AM |
Richard on "Robust Philosophies"
Richard writes (in Richard's latest advice), quote: Jan 1st, 2008 - 5:46 AM Re: Richard's latest Advice Kevin, For twenty-five centuries, philosophers have written to explain the philosophical subjects (abstract universals) without understanding how knowledge is constructed. REPLY: It is a good thing that Socrates WROTE nothing and Plato WROTE nothing on philosophy. That's why we can trust them, since they WROTE nothing on "philosophical subjects". They just passed on "the spark", personally, from one to the other. RICHARD: It would take another twenty-five centuries, or more, to construct arguments to refute each of their senseless ideas. REPLY: Since Socrates WROTE no "senseless ideas" and Plato WROTE nothing "on philosophy", it won't take you 5 minutes, let alone 25 centuries, to refute NOTHING, especially since you seem to KNOW absolutely nothing of any of their ideas. RICHARD: Still, the best argument is the one that 'the proof is in the pudding'. REPLY: Many cooks subscribe to that argument --- especially when speaking or writing of desserts, although they mostly MAKE delicious desserts, including pudding, which is WHY "the proof is in the pudding", rather than in the writing. RICHARD: Arguably, the most prominent characteristic of their WRITING is the ENORMOUS CONFUSION resulting in many radically different Philosophical Schools of thought each attempting to explain the same philosophical universals in radically different ways. COMMENT: You just can't hear WRITTEN English, can you Richard? That is probably because you don't have a written DEFINITION of KNOWLEDGE. But, I'll try again:- Socrates WROTE NOTHING. Plato WROTE NOTHING on the subject of philosophy. He simply TAUGHT Aristotle and a few other guys (very few of them) how TO DO philosophy, like Socrates and himself. RICHARD: When knowledge is constructed to understand a subject, the effort involved constructing the knowledge ceases. QUESTION: How do you "construct Knowledge", Richard, in order to understand a subject? RICHARD: Senseless ideas support a robust Philosophy if philosopher never accomplishes the realistic understandings for they can spend centuries causing confusion. COMMENT: Those philosophers must be TRULY ROBUST guys to be able to spend centuries CAUSING CONFUSTION. Which one of them ever lived for CENTURIES causing all that confusion, Richard? ANALYSIS: "Robust philosophies CAUSE confusion!", according to Richard. I wonder what the attraction is? Philosophy begins, in wonder, as Aristotle argued to his Lyceum group. Maybe people read robust but confusing "philosophies" for the same reason some people like to ride Circus contraptions. Perhaps people who are afraid to ride circus contraptions get DIZZY and confused by reading dizzying; a.k.a. confusing; "philosophies"?!!! Philosophy is "circus-dizziment"? I wonder... But a robust philosopher, such as Socrates, who WROTE NOTHING, still attracts "beautiful minds", even after 25 centuries, despite his "senseless ideas", according to Richard. Too bad that Socrates wasn't able to "construct knowledge", like Richard. Kevin |
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