Philosophy Now Forum

Interesting article- because I too am sick of the elitist manner in which academics talk. I find this sentence particularly apt: "Often it has been said that language is the instrument of philosophy, but it may be more accurate to say that language is the burden of philosophy. Somewhere in the ...

This was a really interesting article that I feel captured the essential dilemma of language and writing: Siobhan Lyons posits that we ought not be intentionally obscure when communicating philosophy, but that literature requires creative obscurity, saying: "The mastery of such enigmatic senten...