Dillinger4
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Foucault looks so intense.
What are the characteristics of a Philosopher?
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cesare
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Foucault looks so intense.
The button is Foucault's double
Did you see that youtube vid of Foucault wiping the floor with Chomsky?
Dillinger4
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No! link?
I watched a documentary about Derrida the other night though - asked what question he would ask Socrates if he had the chance, he answered, without a moments hesitation, that he would ask him about his sex life.
I watched a documentary about Derrida the other night though - asked what question he would ask Socrates if he had the chance, he answered, without a moments hesitation, that he would ask him about his sex life.
Derrida?? Asked that?? !!!
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Dillinger4
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The interviewer asked it, that was Derrida's answer. It made me laugh.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Focoult look likes Proffesor X
cesare
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There's Part I and Part II (Justice v Power)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OSgReGKmCwQ
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=43Ai5WPHqWA
Oh, and here's the search in case I got the subtitles wrong
http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=foucault+chomsky&search_type=
Heheheh re Derrida/Socrates
sorry, I read it wrong
i'm still a bit in shock about his reply though! but then again....
gorski
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MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
They say "what do you mean by philosopher?"
cesare
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Over and over again no matter what you say
MysteryGuest
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And "language becomes an instrument of meaning - in ze true sense of ze word", in a German accent. Which I heard on a Tackhead record once and it kind of stayed with me. 
Johnny Canuck3
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Every philosopher will look something like this:
French version:
How was I able to pinpoint the philosopher look so exactly, you might ask?
Easy: I just typed 'Milstein' into google.
Johnny Canuck3
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You'd think he could get a girl who didn't have rosacea.
max_freakout
Nothing matters
to be a good philosopher you have to be crazy
Correction: To declare philosophers crazy tells them you have not the faintest idea about philosophy.
salaam.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Foucault looks so intense.
He's constipated. Someone stuck a copy of "Discipline and Punish" up his arse.
i-am-your-idea
pretty vacant
Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound
Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know
i-am-your-idea
pretty vacant
Physical characteristics include a high forehead, thinning hair, fishbelly-pale skin, pigeon toes and a small generative member.
descriptions like this can be very usual when illustrating a philosopher- so they must hold some weight!
Now seriously: The most defining characteristic of a philosopher is persistence. Persistence in asking questions, persistence in thinking about them, persistence in avoiding to be hindered and/or framed by societal, cultural, or whatever other pressures and not in the least by - eventual - answers to the questions posed, if these come from yourself or from others.
salaam.
salaam.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
There's no smoke without fire! (Seen the crime stats recently?)
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The characteristics of a philosopher.
To be considered a philosopher, rather than some git who wanks on about stuff on the internets, I would suspect that having had a series of articles, and preferably a book published. These articles should appear in the sort of magazines or journals stocked by universities for use by students and staff in the philosophy department. The books should be available, at the very least, in bookshops renowned for stocking a range of philosophy texts.
Those who earn a living writing such books, or teaching, or through research into the lives and works of philosophers can also call themselves philosophers.
Everyone else is just a person who is interested in teh subject.
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See also, poets. Calling yourself a poet might make you look cool to impressionable idiots, but unless you are actually recognised as a person for whom poetry is actually the means by which you don't starve to death, you really look like a twat. Even the most famous living poets rarely refer to themselves just as poets; instead they tend towards calling themselves writers, academics, professors etc etc. Often with a kind of embarrassed look as everyone knows that making a living out of creative writing is basically as jammy as it gets.
To be considered a philosopher, rather than some git who wanks on about stuff on the internets, I would suspect that having had a series of articles, and preferably a book published. These articles should appear in the sort of magazines or journals stocked by universities for use by students and staff in the philosophy department. The books should be available, at the very least, in bookshops renowned for stocking a range of philosophy texts.
Those who earn a living writing such books, or teaching, or through research into the lives and works of philosophers can also call themselves philosophers.
Everyone else is just a person who is interested in teh subject.
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See also, poets. Calling yourself a poet might make you look cool to impressionable idiots, but unless you are actually recognised as a person for whom poetry is actually the means by which you don't starve to death, you really look like a twat. Even the most famous living poets rarely refer to themselves just as poets; instead they tend towards calling themselves writers, academics, professors etc etc. Often with a kind of embarrassed look as everyone knows that making a living out of creative writing is basically as jammy as it gets.
