[lit-ideas] Re: Auerbach on Mimesis
- From: Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:14:26 -0700 (PDT)
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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