Is philosophy the only subject?
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nosos said:
It's a spin-off, from the -do you think your subject's the best- thread in the general forum where max said philosophy was the only subject..
It's a bit of a daft question, I mean, obviously philosophy's the subject where you consider all the other subjects put together,
But I quite like the way it's gone a bit tangential.
Wrote a long response, but have just edited it all out,
No, - educate yourself. If you don't understand that the Gospel of John makes major and influential contentions about the nature of Truth, then you're not properly educated,. And if you were, you'd understand a possible interpretation of the quote that you can make no sense of.
A clue. - a) The beginning of the gospel -
Pilate's question to Jesus,
What did Pilate do next, and Why. ??
No, - educate yourself. If you don't understand that the Gospel of John makes major and influential contentions about the nature of Truth, then you're not properly educated,. And if you were, you'd understand a possible interpretation of the quote that you can make no sense of.
A clue. - a) The beginning of the gospel -
Pilate's question to Jesus,
What did Pilate do next, and Why. ??
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Nothing matters
Alex B said:
relevant to existence
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Nothing matters
Belushi said:
you HAVE to be nuts to some extent to be a successful philosopher i reckon
A bold statement, and quite wrong of course. I wonder how many educated people in India, China and any other country without a Christian history would respond to your assertion.Demosthenes said:
No, I'm not going to read it. What I'm interested in is whether the Badiou quotation is even meaningful in any important sense, and what you think that meaning is. If there is a meaningful proposition somewhere in there (whether true or not), it should be possible to state it in a finite number of words without referring to some other text. An objective statement about the world should not depend on one form of words or one authority.
Alex B said:
Well I'd expect an educated European to have read it, just the same as I'd expect an educated chinese person to have read at least a bit of confucius and Lao tse, and like I'd expect an educated Indian to have read at least some of the bhagavad-gita, the upanishads, and the vedas, - i think.
I think the badiou quotation is probably meaningful, I can make various guesses as to what he might mean by it, - it's difficult to be certain without any context, - something to do with Truth with a capital T as being a development that changes the conceptual framework of mankind.
Does Belgium really exist?
And why has the subject of belgium come up when I was thinking about this just an hour or so before I posted. ?
And why has the subject of belgium come up when I was thinking about this just an hour or so before I posted. ?
Aldebaran said:
No, honestly, I was trying to think of a line to demonstrate the idea that truth or falsity sometimes depends on the domain within which you make the statement, and thought of Belgium exists, as an example, though not a very good one.
Initially, because it's where my family lived from when I was 4 to eighteen, and also because it's the worst swearword in the galaxy according to douglas adams.
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Can the thread title be changed to Is philosophy your only subject please?
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