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The Story of Philosophy •
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Bryan Magee •
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The Philosophy of Schopenhauer •

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PLATO AND ARISTOTLE -- PHILOSOPHY'S TWO WORLDS

Plato on the left, holds the Timacus, a work of abstract metaphysics, and points to higher things. Aristotle clutches his Ethics , and says by his gesture that we should keep our feet on the ground.
These two opposing tendencies in philosophy have been in conflict throughout its history


The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either ~ Aristotle

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Aristotle’s desire to know about the world of experience was like an unslakable lust. Throughout his life he poured himself into research with gargantum passion and energy across an almost incredibly wide range. He mapped out for the first time many of the basic fields of enquiry, and his own work on them provided the names for them that ae used to this day: among these are logic, physics, political science, economics, psychology, metaphysics, meteorology, the rhetoric, and ethics. This is an almost unbelievable achievement for one individual. He also invented technical terms in those fields that have been used ever since, the words in other languages being derived either from his Greek terms or from their subsequently Latinized equivalents. Such terms include energy, dynamic, induction demonstration, substance, attribute, essence, property, accident, category, topic, proposition, and universal. On top of all this he systematized logic, working out his forms of inference were valid and which invalid -- in other words, what really does follow from what, and what only appears to but doesn’t really; and he gave all these different forms of inference names. For two thousand years the study of logic was to mean the study of Aristotle’s logic. ` Page 34
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THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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. . . As regards philosophy, he came to feel that the most important difference between academic philosophers and real ones was tht the former encountered and acquired their philosophical problems conceptually, by study, and the latter existentially, by involuntary reflection on their own existence and experience. For the former, philosophy is entirely a verbal activity, a matter of reading and writing, of talking and listening, for the latter most important parts of it are rooted in non-verbal being and living, and have something profoundly in common with creative art. For the former philosophy is an illuminating interest and enjoyable serious pursuit: for the latter it is inseparable from life itself, and may be a matter of life and death. The former might make good teachers, but only the latter are likely to make original contributors to the subject. ~ Page 6

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOPENHAUER
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