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by renbri
Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:22 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Why read old philosophers
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Re: Why read old philosophers

Well, of course; everybody knows that.

Lucky for the cephalopods, they operate in the intelligible domain.
Not all humans do.
by renbri
Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:46 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Why read old philosophers
Replies: 49
Views: 12729

Why read old philosophers

I've previously dismissed philosophy –at least the descriptive side -metaphysics and epistemology- as being futile and having been made redundant by science, as people like Hawking and the great Richard Feynman would have us believe. But it struck me that, if that is so, I should be able to construc...