[lit-ideas] Re: Philo-Sophos
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:53:20 -0700
Le 21 ao=FBt 04, =E0 18:01, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx a =E9crit :
>
>
> Geary writes:
>
>>> Philosophy is about thinking
>>> rationally --
>>> that's why I
>>> chucked it, knowing I'd never succeed there. Nor in math.
>
> Erin Holder comments (to "philosophy is about thinking rationally").
>
>> Uh oh. I'm in trouble.
>
>
> If you think about it, there are, in this picture, two types of=20
> thinking,
> "thinking rationally" and "not thinking rationally" (not necessarily=20=
> thinking
> "irrationally"). On the other hand, there's the contrast between=20
> "thinking
> rationally" and "feeling emotionally" -- (as opposed to 'feeling=20
> rationally').
> On the other hand (one too many) there is thinking and feeling=20
> _reasonably_
> (well), which is different from 'rationally'.
>
> I don't think Socrates and the pre-socratics (who invented=20
> 'philosophia')
> were into patterns of rational thinking. Etymologically, it just means=20=
> "love of
> wisdom"
> . Although for Heidegger, it's precisely the opposite: "wisdom of
> love" ("philo-sophia").
>
> (One element in favour of Heidegger's derivation is that the=20
> practitioner of
> philosophy is the 'philosopher' (philosophos', philosophe), which is,=20=
> not,
> the _lover_ of wisdom, but a 'sophos' (wise person) of love --=20
> whatever that
> meant for Socrates and the Presocratics).
M.C. Interesting. Where does Heidegger say this?
>
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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