[lit-ideas] Re: Auerbach on Mimesis

Even if philosophy is basically for the few, and even if most of it won't help 
me understand the world, that doesn't invalidate it as a discipline.  For what 
it's worth, just thought I'd mention it.
   
  

Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    In my opinion, unless that activity can be useful in some way, it doesn't 
rise above a bunch of isms .  I said quite the opposite of philosophy lying in 
the material realm.  I said it lies in the intellectual realm, only I called it 
the spirit.  As such it would seem to comprise different frameworks with which 
to understand reality.  Unfortunately, the frameworks are necessarily 
non-empirical.  Going back to that movie, can philosophy help me to understand 
it, to put it into some sort of perspective?  Possibly, but I suspect that's 
not the reason for being of philosophy.  It exists for itself, a game for the 
few.  I didn't see a course entitled "Applied Philosophy".  Now that would be 
interesting.
   
  

 

       
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