[lit-ideas] Re: Auerbach on Mimesis

  • From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:35:23 -0230

Quoting Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 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.


-----------> Your humility and renunciation of self-love is stunning! Many
thanks for the vote of confidence as well.

Walter O
MUN




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> 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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